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->mapping

Contains mapping of tablename and fields in a table. Notice that entering any configuration for a table might affect performance since translation is needed before results are returned or queries executed.

Mapping is totally transparent for applications inside TYPO3 and mapping is independent of handler type - the translation goes on between these two spheres.

Mapping can work as a work-around for reserved field- or table names.

mapTableName

Key

mapTableName

Datatype

string

Description

Real, physical tablename for the table

mapFieldNames[fieldname]

Key

mapFieldNames[fieldname]

Datatype

string

Description

Real, physical fieldname in the table.

Example

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$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXTCONF']['dbal']['mapping'] = array(
    'sys_note' => array(
        'mapTableName' => 'SysNoteTable',
        'mapFieldNames' =>  array(
            'uid' => 'uid999',
            'pid' => 'pid999',
            'deleted' => 'deleted999',
            'tstamp' => 'tstamp999',
            'crdate' => 'crdate999',
            'cruser' => 'cruser999',
            'author' => 'author999',
            'email' => 'email999',
            'subject' => 'subject999',
            'message' => 'message999',
            'personal' => 'personal999',
            'category' => 'category999'
        )
    ),
    '_tt_content' => array(
        'mapTableName' => 'tt_content999',
        'mapFieldNames' => array(
            'bodytext' => 'bodytext999',
            'header' => 'header999',
            'image' => 'image999',
            'pid' => 'pid999',
            'sorting' => 'sorting999',
        )
    )
);

In this example two classic TYPO3 tables have been mapped; the sys_note table (from the sys_note extension) and the tt_content table (Content Elements).

According to this mapping example the sys_note table in the database (or whatever data source) is actually named SysNoteTable and all fields are actually named differently; with "...999" after (this is just an example).

When you try to make a look up in the sys_note like

SELECT uid FROM sys_note WHERE uid=123

then this is transformed into

SELECT uid999 FROM SysNoteTable WHERE uid999=123

before executed. And the result row which will be array('uid999' => 123) will be transformed back to array('uid' => 123) before you receive it inside of TYPO3.

Warning

Mapping tables to two different databases on localhost will most likely only work if [SYS][no_pconnect] is set in $TYPO3_CONF_VARS. Otherwise PHP will, regardless of DBAL maintaining different links for the databases, use the wrong one.