Reading Time: 2 minutes I use Xdebug not only to hunt bugs, but also for every day development work. Of course I also want to use it when I write my Tests. I one of my current projects we Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Phase 1: Ignorance and Bias Recently I came across Flysystem, which is a Filesystem abstraction layer for PHP. Now if you haven’t worked with a Filesystem abstraction layer before (like me), you may ask yourself: Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes A new feature on composer which I really appreciate is the “Path” repository type. Imagine you are working on your super-cool-project, and one task requires new functionality where there is no composer package existing yet Read More …
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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes 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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes 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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes 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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes 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 …
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 …
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 …
