TYPO3 Extension “legacy_collections”
====================================

This extension provides TCA information and database tables for the
generic “sys_collections” concept, which allows for statically select
items into a collection.

In addition, two API classes for fetching items from a collection are
available as well:

-  ``FriendsOfTYPO3\LegacyCollections\Collection\RecordCollectionRepository``
-  ``FriendsOfTYPO3\LegacyCollections\Collection\StaticRecordCollection``

Both classes previously resided in the PHP namespace
``TYPO3\CMS\Core\Collection``.

The functionality was part of the TYPO3 Core until TYPO3 v11.0, and
moved into its own extension, receiving its own public repository.

Installation
------------

The latest version can be installed via TER
(https://extensions.typo3.org) or via composer by adding
``composer require friendsoftypo3/legacy-collections`` in a TYPO3 v10.0+
installation.

Current state
-------------

The extension has been part of TYPO3 Core for a very long time but its
API wasn’t flexible enough to build a generic collection model. It may
become more healthy if maintained as third party extension and has been
extracted for this reason.

Contribution
------------

Feel free to submit any pull request, or add documentation, tests, as
you please. We will publish a new version every once in a while,
depending on the amount of changes and pull requests submitted.

License
~~~~~~~

The extension is published under GPL v2+, all included third-party
libraries are published under their respective licenses.

Authors
~~~~~~~

Many contributors have been working on this area while this
functionality was part of the TYPO3 Core. This package is now maintained
by a loose group of TYPO3 enthusiasts inside the TYPO3 Community. Feel
free to contact Benni Mack (benni.mack@typo3.org) for any questions
regarding “legacy_collections”.