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Hello List,

I am about to sit down to write a plugin for typo3, and I would be
interested in your thoughts about where to begin. Basically I have a
database consisting of about 40 tables. The main table stores actual news
articles and the auxiliary tables store things like languages, country of
relevance, themes, related action items and so on. My question is, since I
already have a database structure with data in it (approx 20000 articles
plus all the auxiliary entries), does it make more sense to do a plugin from
scratch or to try to fit that database into something like tt_news. I'd
like people on the backend (editors) to be able to insert a <whatever I
call the plugin> element on the page and through a flexforms interface
choose for example what country's news should appear and what topic an so
on.

Given that I already have an existing database I have to work with, what
would be your recommendations. Thank you.
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You will have a hard time making the 40 tables work correctly with
the TCA.

I would suggest make a couple of BE modules that can help you manage the
data 'non typo3' Since you have a lot of articles.
you might want to have special tools for organizing this efficiently.

The list module is not know for efficiently handling a large a mouth
of records.

Ries


On Jun 5, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Ralph Grier wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I am about to sit down to write a plugin for typo3, and I would be
> interested in your thoughts about where to begin. Basically I have a
> database consisting of about 40 tables. The main table stores
> actual news
> articles and the auxiliary tables store things like languages,
> country of
> relevance, themes, related action items and so on. My question is,
> since I
> already have a database structure with data in it (approx 20000
> articles
> plus all the auxiliary entries), does it make more sense to do a
> plugin from
> scratch or to try to fit that database into something like
> tt_news. I'd
> like people on the backend (editors) to be able to insert a
> <whatever I
> call the plugin> element on the page and through a flexforms interface
> choose for example what country's news should appear and what topic
> an so
> on.
>
> Given that I already have an existing database I have to work with,
> what
> would be your recommendations. Thank you.
> _______________________________________________
> TYPO3-english mailing list
> TYPO3-english (AT) lists (DOT) netfielders.de
> http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/.../typo3-english

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Ries van Twisk
Freelance Typo3 Developer
email: ries (AT) vantwisk (DOT) nl
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