[TYPO3-ect] as*() functions

[Daniel Pötzinger]

Elmar Hinz schrieb:
> Franz Koch wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>> What do you think?
>> create your own view? I had the same problem as you some month ago (with
>> some early alpha), and I simply enriched my view-object by the methods
>> you mentioned - so it's no big deal.
>> But it'll be nice if this would find a way in the default views of
>> lib/div - so I'm glad you mentioned it.
>>
>> --
>> Greetings,
>> Franz Koch
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> the solution I plan, is to make type casting and view rendering two
> different steps available in differnt classes. The advantage is, that I can
> display the same typecasted content in different views, i.e. HTML Page and
> RSS feed. 
> 
> Daniels case would look similar like this:
> 
> $downloads=$this->get('downloads');
> $c = new TypeCaster();
> foreach ($downloads as $download) {
>         ?>
>         <h3><? print $c->plainToXHTML($download['title'])?></h3>
>         ...
> 
Good idea..

- maybe typecaster is not the perfect word for it - because it 
transforms or interprets certain values in a certain way... But I have 
no better name
- the caster needs to have a configuration object.