[TYPO3-core] RFC #12067: Remove ext_autoload.php files for extensions using Extbase naming convention

Steffen Kamper info at sk-typo3.de
Tue Sep 29 00:07:36 CEST 2009


Hi Masi,

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
>> that's indeed a real trap. For me it's very hard to configure right, as
>> ext_tables is BE, ext_localconf FE,
> 
> I'm not under the impression that ext_localconf.php isn't loaded in the FE.
>
it is, i didn't wrote it different.

> OT: The whole ext_tables.php and ext_localconf.php is an ugly mixture of everything. There's too
> much stuff that has nothihg to do with SQL tables (TCA), yet it has to be in ext_tables.php.
> 
> IMHO ext_tables.php should contain *only* database related definitions. Everything else should go
> either into ext_localconf_be.php or ext_localconf_fe.php. Remains to be seen if ext_localconf.php is
> to be called before or after them. Maybe an ext_localconf_common.php can be called too (before or
> after depending when ext_localconf.php is called).
> 

+1 for a clean seperation. I think the most devs don't know the 
difference between ext_tables and ext_localconf and keep copying same 
stuff as other extensions do. Name the file like that what it does is 
the best solution!

vg Steffen


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