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Carsten Windler

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Updating Typo3 CMS 6.2 to 7.2

Posted onJune 22, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesExtbase, PHP, Typo3Tags7.2, LTS, Typo3, Update, Version 7

Typo3 CMS hooks and namespaced classes

Posted onJune 16, 2015June 16, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesPHP, Typo3TagsHooks, Namespaces, Typo3

Hofstadter’s Law

Posted onMay 26, 2015May 28, 2015Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute Heh. Never heard of that Hofstadter guy before. However I immediately liked Hofstadter’s law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. So much wisdom in only a Read More …

Categoriesisset($theRest[$i])TagsHofstadter's Law

Fixing Locale issues on Debian

Posted onMay 26, 2015May 26, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesLinux, Webservers etc., PHPTagsDebian, Linux, Locale

Mocking magic methods with PHPUnit

Posted onApril 7, 2015January 3, 20204 Comments

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 …

CategoriesPHP, Unit TestsTagsMagic method, Mock, PHPUnit, Unit Tests

New Typo3 extension unleashed: cwdblog

Posted onMarch 30, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesExtbase, PHP, Typo3TagsExtbase, logging, SQL queries, Typo3

Of Typo3, Site Crawlers and Compression

Posted onFebruary 10, 2015Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesTypo3TagsCache, Sitecrawler

Debugging Flow3 – ain’t got time for that!?

Posted onDecember 9, 2014December 9, 2014Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesFlow3, PHPTagsCache, Flow3, Performance, XDebug

Traits and Extbase

Posted onDecember 2, 2014Leave a comment

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 …

CategoriesPHP, Typo3TagsExtbase, PHP, Trait

Remote CLI debugging with XDebug

Posted onNovember 17, 2014July 24, 20153 Comments

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are quite some tutorials out there on how to use XDebug to debug PHP CLI code, which where more confusing than helpful (to me). I found out that, once you have a running XDebug Read More …

CategoriesToolsTagsCLI, phpStorm, Remote Debugging

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