[TYPO3-ect] taxonomies / categories in TYPO3

Steffen Kamper steffen at sk-typo3.de
Wed Oct 10 14:37:08 CEST 2007


"Mads Brunn" <mads at typoconsult.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1192007188.20984.typo3-team-extension-coordination at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi Elmar (and others who has an opinion)
>
> A technical question:
>
> I saw that you had asked a question on the dev-list regarding 
> "MM-relations with metadata" (the "MM_match_fields" feature in tcemain). I 
> have now implemented this feature in EXT:categories so that a common 
> MM-table is used for all relations between the category table and other 
> tables.
>
> Du you still consider this to be the correct way of doing it (from your 
> experience with the CCF) or should I rather go for one MM-table per table? 
> I'm a little bit uncertain about the pros and cons using this approach and 
> I'm not even sure that the "MM_match_fields" feature was meant for this 
> purpose?!
>
> Looking forward to hear your opinion on this.
>
> ./mads

absolute +1 for one table. In this table there is a field for the foreign 
table so it's easy to built the joins.

I think also TCA can handle this without modification ? (or is the naming 
schema used for it?)

vg  Steffen 




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