TYPO3 Extension "Plain FAQ" released

Today I released the first public version of my latest TYPO3 Extension called "Plain FAQ". The name already says it - the extension is a very simple solution to manage Frequently Asked Questions in TYPO3. Below follow some of the facts about the Extension:

• Compatible with TYPO3 8.7 and 9.5
• Based on Extbase and Fluid
• Covered with unit and functional tests
• Easy usage for editors
• Uses TYPO3…

Friday, November 22, 2019 FAQirfaqSymfony ConsoleTYPO3

How to fix TYPO3 error "There is no column with name 't3ver_oid' on table"

Recently the following error message showed up in a project I was updating to TYPO3 9.5:

There is no column with name 't3ver_oid' on table 'tx_news_domain_model_news'.

Monday, September 02, 2019 dependencyExtbaseThere is no column with name

How to disable the nginx TYPO3 cache set by ext:nginx_cache in development context

When you run TYPO3 on nginx webservers, you can use the nginx FastCGI cache to really increase the performance of your website. Basically, the nginx FastCGI cache stores pages rendered by TYPO3 in the webservers memory. So once a page is cached in the nginx FastCGI cache, it will be delivered directly from the webservers memory which is really fast.

When using nginx FastCGI cache, the…

Sunday, August 25, 2019 cachedevelopmentdisablenginx

Extbase $query->statement() - What can possibly go wrong?

Last week I had to resolve a problem in a 3rd party Extension, where an Extbase Plugin returned unexpected results when used multiple times on the same page. The problem showed up in the frontend, where the plugin listed some products by a given category. When the plugin was present one time on a page, the output was as following (simplified):

Output of plugin 1
Product 1 for Category 1
…

Monday, April 01, 2019 datamapperExtbaserepositorywrong results

Extending Extbase domain models and controllers using XCLASS

In TYPO3 9.5 LTS it has been deprecated (see notice) to extend Extbase classes using TypoScript config.tx_extbase.objects and plugin.tx_%plugin%.objects. In order to migrate existing extensions, which extends another TYPO3 extension, you should now use XLASSes.

For my TYPO3 Extension sf_event_mgt I also provide a small demo extension, which shows how to extend domain models and controllers…

Monday, March 18, 2019 #86270config.tx_extbase.objectscontrollerExtbaseextendmodel

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