[TYPO3-core] RFC: #14628: Open t3lib_db for own instance

[Steffen Kamper]

Jigal van Hemert schrieb:
> 
> Then what is the point of this RFC?
>

consistency + cleanup, as i already quoted!

>>> Can you give us a use case and an example for how to use this 
>>> alternative method?
>> i showed in the RFC how this will be done:
>>
>> $this->db = t3lib_div::makeInstance('t3lib_DB');
>> $this->db->connectDB($host, $user, $password, $dbName);
> 
> And what about a use case? In which circumstances did you need a second 
> db object where the DBAL solution for a different handler for certain 
> tables wasn't sufficient?
> 

any situation where you need data from other DB without using DBAL.
Man, this is a 2-liner. I saw so much extensions doing that with raw 
mysql commands. I would like to point to TYPO3 API always!

vg Steffen