[TYPO3-core] RFC: Hook request in t3lib_tceforms

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Bernhard,

I didn't look at your change in detail, but I think we shouldn't move an
existing hook to a different place at this time of the release cycle
(Release Candidate phase) - as there's not enough time until the final
release anymore for people to test if this doesn't break their existing
hooks.

However, I wouldn't object to introducing new hooks now.

cheers
Ingmar

Bernhard Kraft schrieb:
> Hallo everybody,
> 
> 
> I make myself visible again after some time with this hook request :).
> I did not stop work with TYPO3 - rather i have some projects. And those together
> with studying (first semester is very exhausting) take most of my time :(
> 
> 
> Type: Hook request
> 
> Description:
> There are hooks in t3lib_tceforms which get called before (pre) and after (post) the
> "mainFields" get rendered ... But when only single fields of a table get rendered using
> the list-module and the field-edit buttons (allowing to edit the same field of more than
> one record at once) then the "getMainFields" method does not get called and you can't
> hook into rendering single fields.
> 
> Solution:
> The supplied patch moves the initialization of the current hooks into the constructor of
> the class and adds another class-array for hooks to the "getSingleField" method.
> 
> The patch also adds one line in alt_doc.php which allows the hook methods to add more button
> rows (or other information) to the header of the record-editing-screen (alt_doc.php)
> (Below the save buttons)
> 
> 
> Remark:
> The reason for this patch is a nifty extension I wrote during the last days because
> I got annoyed of a common task which every of you knows probably very well:
> You want to set a set of (5-20 or even more) pages to "hidden" - Or change the pagetype
> of all of them to "sysfolder".
> 
> You most probably do this currently by going to the list module and either edit all fields
> of all records at once - or you do a more fine grained selection and edit only the required
> field of all records - or you even do select some single records, of which you want to
> edit a field, using the clipboard.
> 
> But then you go through all the records and set the same value in all listed records --
> a quite annoying task.
> 
> I made this little extension:
> http://think-open.org/kraftb/index/kb_agent/
> 
> Which allows you to change the value of one field - then press the newly added buttton
> and the value of all other same fields of the same table get changed to the same value.
> 
> So you mark one hidden-checkbox - press the button - and all are hidden and you can press
> save and exit.
> 
> 
> Files:
> kbagent_2006-02-11.diff
> 
> 
> greets,
> Bernhard