TYPO3 usage statistics for july 2018

TR;DR - I analyzed 48.146.633 websites for TYPO3 usage - the results with aggregated charts can be found here.

I'm proud to introduce my latest side project called t3versions. It is a Python (Django) web application to identify, if a website is running TYPO3 and if so, which major version is being used. As a result, TYPO3 websites are saved to the database in order to create an aggregated…

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 censusstatisticsTYPO3typo3 version analyzer

TYPO3 MySQL database import fails with "Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes"

I recently migrated a TYPO3 7.6 Website to TYPO3 8.7 and while importing the migrated TYPO3 database on the production server, the import failed with the following MySQL error:

ERROR 1709 (HY000) at line 2060: Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes.

Sunday, April 15, 2018 Index column size too largemysql 5.6mysql 5.7TYPO3

TYPO3 extension sf_event_mgt version 3.0 released

Today I finally released the new version 3.0 of my TYPO3 extension sf_event_mgt - Event management and registration. The new version comes with tons of new features, bugfixes and improvements and also contains 2 breaking changes, so make sure to read the release notes.

Thanks to everyone, who contributed to the extension over the last few months. Also a special thanks to Alex Kellner for…

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 event managementExtbasefluidTYPO3

TYPO3 - How to render a Fluid standalone view multiple times in different languages

Back in 2015, I wrote 2 blogposts (first and second) about rendering a localized Fluid standalone view in a scheduler task (commandController). The main problem was to render a Fluid standalone view multiple times within the same request but with different languages. Back then, my solution was to create an own ViewHelper and a modified version of the TYPO3 LocalizationUtility which were…

Monday, February 05, 2018 fluid standalone viewlocalizationTYPO3

SSH reports "Too many Authentication Failures" on first connect

Today I wanted to connect to a new clients SSH server and received a "Too many Authentication Failures" message just on the first connect to the host. After a short break and some Google research, I found the very simple reason for the message.

Since I have several SSH keys in my .ssh/ directory, SSH tries to use each of it to connect to the SSH server. So when the SSH server has a very…

Thursday, January 25, 2018 public keysshToo many Authentication Failures

TYPO3 8.7 LTS - How to enable the image cropping tool in your own extension

People using TYPO3 7.6 or 8.7 for sure know the cool Image Cropping tool that was introduced with TYPO3 7. As an extension developer, you can easily switch on the Image Cropping tool for your own extension by enabling adding the imageoverlayPalette to the foreign_types config array for the FILETYPE_IMAGE in the TCA like shown in this blogpost by Marcus Schwemer. In TYPO3 8.7 the Image…

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 ExtbaseImage Croppingtypo3 8.7

TYPO3 Extbase - Manual validation of a domain model

When you create an Extbase extension and allow a website user to submit form data that will be saved to the TYPO3 database, you usually work with validators in your domain model to ensure, that the given data will match certain criteria (e.g. properties have the right data type or expected data format). Extbase offers an easy way to add validation rules to domain model properties, by just…

Monday, June 26, 2017 domain modelExtbaseproperty mapperTYPO3validation

How to use MySQL FIELD-function in TYPO3 8.7 with Doctrine DBAL

When you want to query an Extbase repository for a list of UIDs or PIDs, you usually add a query constraint like query->in('pid', $pidList) to the query, where $pidList is an array of integers. But what, if you want to control the sorting of the returned records? Lets assume, you want to select the following list of UIDs [5, 3, 4, 1] from your repository and the sorting or the UIDs must rem…

Monday, May 15, 2017 Doctrine DBALExtbaseMySQL fieldtypo3 8.7

TYPO3 - Adding direct mail fields to femanager

In a project I needed to add the direct mail fields "Activate Newsletter" and "Subscribe to categories" to the TYPO3 femanager (thanks to Alex Kellner for this great extension), so frontend users are able to subscribe to a newsletter and select newsletter categories.

Since femanager is created with Extbase, it is easily extendable and I created a small TYPO3 extension named femanager_dmail…

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Direct MailfemanagerTYPO3

Testing and deploying TYPO3 using GitLab, GitLab CI, Capistrano and TYPO3 Console

In this article, I'll show you how to setup automated testing and continuous deployment of a TYPO3 website using GitLab, GitLab CI, Capistrano and TYPO3 Console. The main purpose of the article is to give you a starting point for automated testing and continuous deployment.

With the setup described in this article, I want to make sure, that

• tests are executed automatically on every commit
…

Tuesday, October 04, 2016 CapistranoContinuous Deploymentcontinuous integrationGitLabGitLab CITYPO3TYPO3 Console