Deprecation: #90258 - Simplified RTE Parser API 

See forge#90258

Description 

The PHP class RteHtmlParser which is used to transform RTE-based textarea fields from the database to the configured Rich Text Editor, and back, has a new simplified API.

For this reason, the following two methods have been marked as deprecated:

  • TYPO3\CMS\Core\Html\RteHtmlParser->init()
  • TYPO3\CMS\Core\Html\RteHtmlParser->RTE_transform()

Impact 

Calling any of the methods will trigger a PHP E_USER_DEPRECATED error.

Affected Installations 

TYPO3 installations with extensions dealing with extracting or adding content such as "l10nmgr", or any custom extension using the methods.

Migration 

The method TYPO3\CMS\Core\Html\RteHtmlParser->init() can be removed without substitution, as it serves no purpose anymore.

The method TYPO3\CMS\Core\Html\RteHtmlParser->RTE_transform() now has two methods as substitute, depending on the direction which is necessary. This was previously done in the third method argument ("rte" and "db"):

  • transformTextForRichTextEditor($content, $configuration)
  • transformTextForPersistence($content, $configuration)

The second argument $configuration is now the processing configuration (proc) of the RTE configuration.