Multiple test databases in Bitbucket Pipelines
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you have to use unlimited multiple databases on Bitbucket Pipelines for your testing, you have to be creative. Here’s how I solved it. Read More …
Category: Typo3
cwmobileredirect and cwenvbanner finally available for Typo3 7 LTS
Reading Time: < 1 minute Well, actually the Typo3 7 LTS versions were available for a couple of months through my Github repositories of cwmobileredirect and cwenvbanner already, however I never found the time to upload them to TER. Finally Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Of Typo3, Site Crawlers and Compression
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Typo3-Installation I currently maintain uses the sitecrawler extension to heat up the page cache every morning before the users are visiting our site. We encountered the problem that all pages that were cached didn’t 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 …
cwmobileredirect now ready for Typo3 6.2
Reading Time: < 1 minute Version 1.4.4 of cwmobileredirect has just been released. It now officially supports Typo3 6.2. There are no other new features or bugfixes, so if you don’t want to use it with 6.2, you don’t need Read More …
Typo3 Caching and TypoScript conditions
Reading Time: < 1 minute Having taken over a somewhat shabby Typo3 project recently (I prefer using the term “challenge” here), digging through the many TypoScript files revealed something which is probably very common in many Typo3 setups: [code] [browser 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 …
