[TYPO3-core] RFC: #6777 Introducing site constants

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Ernesto,

"Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]" <ernst at cron-it.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1195645268.22819.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote: on 21.11.2007 09:32:
>
>> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>>> Feature:
>>> It's very comfortable to define important constants of a website in
>>> one place to use them all over TYPO3.
>>> Please have a look to the screenshot to get the idea.
>>
>> You cannot do anything with site title. It is hard-coded to use
>> sitetitle field of template record.
>>
>> Otherwise - not a bad idea I think. However, just defining constants
>> does not help much unless they are used somewhere.
>
> I see a good potential here, especially for the constants regarding
> email adresses, as those are usually a "pain" to configure if you have
> dozens of different extensions which want to send emails. Having a
> default value which every extension can use (e.g. sr_feuser_register,
> newloginbox, etc) would make the task of configuring that (or letting
> the customer configure that) much easier.
>
> The time and date-format for FE-output is also very useful.
>
> Only the "meta-information" about a site (site description, copyright)
> are not very useful in this place, as they are used only "once" (meta
> tags?).
>

i thought of other places too like the messages in header/footer of a site.
meta-information could also use these (page.meta)

> So trying to have a central place to configure "common options" that
> every extension might need is very good.
>
> So currently +0 on that, waiting for some more comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Ernesto

vg  Steffen