DAM

1.6. DAM for Developers

The DAM provide an API to access the functionality of the system which is of course the basis to develop applications based on the DAM. Nevertheless there are already (frontend) applications in production and in use that access the database tables of the DAM directly. The tables are not expected to be changed very much in the future, so that's a possible way too.

Also many paradigms introduced to TYPO3 through the DAM have found their way into other areas of development. One such example are services, that extend the DAM, but meanwhile are used to extend other parts of TYPO3 in a similar fashion as well. In that sense the influence of the DAM goes well beyond it's immediate use and is about to serve as a basis to many new functions (like a new ecommerce shop) and also brings new technical solutions to detail problems (like services) as well as introducing new backend interfaces (category trees, multiple step data handling).