[TYPO3-core] RFC: Feature Request: TCEforms/IRRE - Allow TSconfig to override TCA field configuration

[Martin Kutschker]

Oliver Hader schrieb:
> This is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Problem:
> Currently most options regarding behaviour and appearance of an
> extension depend on how the initial extension developer has defined this
> in tca.php. If the size of a selector box should not be "5" but "10",
> the only way is to change/hack the extension code.
> 
> Solution:
> Integrate a possibility to set TSconfig in a general form like
> TCEFORM.<table>.<field>.config that overrides the extension settings at
> $TCA[<table>]['columns'][<field>]['config'].
> 
> Page TSconfig example:
> TCEFORM.tx_irretutorial_mnasym_hotel {
>   offers.config {
>     foreign_selector = offerid
>     appearance {
>       useCombination = 1
>       useSortable = 1
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> This could be used to influence appearance and behaviour of an extension
> for e.g. specific pages. Of course not every TCA configuration key can
> be changed. Changing "type" from "select" to "input" with TSconfig would
> be a bad idea and is not allowed.

What is considered to be bad? Does it in this context make more sense to 
make a kind of whitelist (TCA settings allowed to be overriden) rather 
than a blacklist (forbiddden changes).

I favour the whitelist as IMHO it is more in the line of the current TS 
settings (rename labels, hide fields or values etc)

> Comments:
> Currently this issue would be used for Inline Relational Record Editing,
> but I integrated the changes into TCEforms, because other TCA types
> could also benefit from it.

Why is this only IRRE related? Seems odd to me that the users of IRRE 
based extensions must write their own pseudo-TCA.

Masi