[TYPO3-core] RFC: #9758: Write Configuration to extTables.php

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

> imho the extTables is the place where those settings go to?
> There are some simular (commented) pre-settings in.

Hmm, I thought so too.

One thing however, which is definitely wrong with this patch is that the 
name "extTables.php" is *not* hard-coded. It is defined in 
localconf.php, with the following statement:

$typo_db_extTableDef_script = 'extTables.php';

This means that:

1) it may have another name, so you should use the above variable

2) this variable may actually be blank, so there's no extTables.php file 
at all.

I am in case 2 in all of my sites. As Masi mentioned I put all my TCA 
modifications into an extension's ext_tables.php, so I could actually 
remove the typo3conf/extTables.php file (no need to carry around useless 
files).

I'm quite positive about the feature you suggest, but you need to take 
into account the $typo_db_extTableDef_script variable. What I would 
suggest is that you make your script capable of understanding the 
"EXT:blabla" syntax, so that the TCA modifications could actually be 
saved to an extension where such changes already reside. Does that make 
sense?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch