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 > [email protected] > http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english -- Ries van Twisk Freelance Typo3 Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.rvantwisk.nl/ skype: callto://r.vantwisk _______________________________________________ TYPO3-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english
