Updating Typo3 CMS 6.2 to 7.2
Reading Time: 4 minutes Updating our companies major portals from Typo3 CMS 4.7 LTS to 6.2 LTS was a good piece of work, so I was not really keen on updating any websites again. A good excuse for us Read More …
Category: PHP
Typo3 CMS hooks and namespaced classes
Reading Time: < 1 minute During work on my extension cwenvbanner to make it compatible with Typo3 CMS 7.2, I came across a good old friend, the hooks array $GLOBALS[‘TYPO3_CONF_VARS’][‘SC_OPTIONS’]. Since I sometimes struggle with the way how to declare Read More …
Fixing Locale issues on Debian
Reading Time: < 1 minute Business as usual. New feature developed, tested, packed and ready to go. Let me just deploy it to production, smoke test aaaand …. damn! What happened to the currency symbols!? In my particular case, PHP’s Read More …
Mocking magic methods with PHPUnit
Reading Time: < 1 minute Updated: as pointed out in the comments below, using setMethods() or, since this function is deprecated lately, addMethods(), is the much better way for the mocking of magic methods with PHPUnit! Original post: If you Read More …
New Typo3 extension unleashed: cwdblog
Reading Time: < 1 minute Working with Extbase a lot, I always found it very cumbersome to see the actual SQL queries which were produced by the Persistance layer. One solution would be to turn on MySQLs general log, but Read More …
Debugging Flow3 – ain’t got time for that!?
Reading Time: 2 minutes It is known that XDebug has a negative impact on performance, but what happens when you try to debug a Flow3 application can be something between absolutely surprising and totally annoying. But one after another. Read More …
Traits and Extbase
Reading Time: 3 minutes With Extbase, accessing the extensions settings outside Controllers (e.g. in a Repository) requires some manual work which is always the same. I don’t know why Extbase doesn’t support us with helper functions, but anyway, let’s Read More …
Template Engines vs. PHTML
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Problem: Performance. Once again. It was time to think again about the use of Template Engines (i.e. those like Smarty or Fluid who offer their own syntax) versus so called PHTML files (i.e. basically Read More …
cwenvbanner 0.1.0 released
Reading Time: < 1 minute The latest release of cwenvbanner features predefined Banner styles for even easier setup. Please see the readme.md for more details!
Typo3 Extbase: Object not saved
Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently I stumbled upon a nasty problem with Typo3’s Extbase. The instance of an object was not updated, but as usual (for Flow/Extbase, that is) there were no exceptions, no log entries, no hints… Extbase Read More …
