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 …
Hofstadter’s Law
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Remote CLI debugging with XDebug
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 …
