[TYPO3-hci] Innovation?

[Martin Kutschker]

Andreas Förthner schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> 
>> Andreas Förthner schrieb:
>>
>>>
>>> As this are not all my ideas but mostly from Karsten, just read his 
>>> script on the TYCON3 page, there is a very detailed description of 
>>> what WebDAV is and how it could be integrated in TYPO3.
>>>
>>> So, now I'm not alone with this for the moment. My collegue (also 
>>> student and perhaps known from the other mailinglists) Clemens, will 
>>> be with me on the train and we already got a php webDAV server 
>>> running in a test environment. So what we thought to do was: 
>>> Implement a basic WebDAV library that could be used by every 
>>> extension to handle file-uploads. Of course the core will need some 
>>> changes to get this run in the fileadmin and element Browser.
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't read the transcript of Karstens speech and I'm not familiar 
>> with webDAV. So my question might be dumb.
>>
>> Why must the Core itself use WebDAV? Isn't it enought that you get 
>> access from the "outside" to the fileadmin via webDAV?
>>
>> And do I really need PHP libs to do it? AFAIK there are Apache modules 
>> to do that kind of thing.
>>
>> Masi
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in the first run we could implement it perhaps by an extension, this 
> should work for the basic functionality. But if we would like to have 
> the overkill versioning + whatever WebDAV integration we definitely need 
> some changes in the core.

Just had a look at a webdav site. The mentioned versioning seems to be in a 
"beta" state.

> The Apache modules work but the we really just can handle files in an 
> physical folder. If we can control it via php we can create virtual 
> files/folders to edit TS templates or even CEs. And for files the 
> categories as described by Jan-Hendrik.

Wouldn't it be better to make the Core *use* a WebDAV server? Currently the 
Core can only access a file on the local file system (not taking into 
account Unix mounts or Windows shares). How about making it access any 
"file system" including FTP and WebDAV instead of turuning TYPO3 itself 
into a WebDAV server.

Masi