TYPO3 Core

Well, the documentation says that for the Frontend you should use $TSFE->includeTCA(). If I read this thing correctly, it also loads the columns etc.

Anyway, so what I wanted to say is that the difference between includeTCA and t3lib-div::loadTCA() is that the first one loads the whole TCA and not just the ctrl part. And it worked on my side.

If there is a bug, we should probably fix includeTCA to make it work with extensions as well. Agreed?

I just have the same Problem. includeTCA doesn't load the columns-fields of my extension. But there is a trick:
includeTCA includes all what it finds in ext_tables.php. So I cut the part of my selectfield out of tca.php and pasted it in ext_tables.php of my ext-directory. Now includeTCA finds my column and it works.

But you're right...there should be a function in TYPO3 like readColumnsFromTCA($table) or something like that...

The documentation of tslib_fe->includeTCA() says: "To load full TCA for the table, use t3lib_div::loadTCA($tableName) after calling this function."

I attached a patch which adds t3lib_div::loadTCA($table);

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