Extbase supports very well the idea of Domain-Driven Design. It supplies a Repository class to comfortably fetch your objects from. Some handy methods are already implemented. read more »
Domain Driven Design is—by experience—a strong concept and a good foundation to build TYPO3 extensions upon.
Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on the two premises that complex domain designs should be based on a model, and that, for most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic [...].
The domain represents structure, knowledge and data. A content management system (CMS) like TYPO3 has to handle the data of the domain with respect to the domain knowledge. It aggregates the data, and visualizes it as a content of an output format.
A question emerges: How should the data stored in a domain be mapped on the content of the output? read more »
Today’s development process of a TYPO3 extension comprises (usually) the following steps:
This ends up in an extension design which is hard to maintain – especially for larger projects. A more modern approach uses the Model View Controller Pattern. read more »
