• Using data handler in upgrade wizards in TYPO3 CMS

  I work a lot with TYPO3 Upgrades and often have to write upgrade wizards to migrate certain data. I recently discovered, that it is possible to use the data handler, which is the core component of handling data database actions in the backend, e.g.…

• CKEditor 5: Base64 encoded embedded images loose src

  I have a project, where the customer sometimes pastes images directly into the editor, which then get saved as base64 encoded data url in the `src` attribute. However, I the customer recently stated, that the images disappear after saving, when the…

• PhpStorm + MacOS: Trying to enter pipe into commit message performs commit

  I've had a problem with typing certain special characters in the commit message in PHPStorm on MacOS. I'm using the danish keyboard layout, where Option+I would create the pipe character “|”. Unfortunately the so called mnemonics kick in and perform…

• Plesk: Nano editor in chroot: Error opening terminal: xterm-256color

  I recently came across a strange error, which must have been a combination of my local OS being MacOS and the chroot environment on my server with Plesk. I logged into a user with chroot'ed shell access using SSH. When trying to start nano editor I…

• MariaDB vs. MySQL 8: GROUP BY sorting wrong

  I just fell over some quite funny behaviour. In my local development environment i used MariaDB 10.3. The server environment used MySQL 8.0. I had a query with a `GROUP BY` statement: SELECT SUBSTR(short, 1, 1) AS `char` FROM tx_a21glossary_main…

• Symfony: Security context in doctrine filters

  I one of my recent projects, I wanted to use doctrine filters to dynamically alter queries based on, which role the currently logged-in user had. I wanted to use this to automatically filter inactive entities - based on the `active` property, when…

• Symfony: Login form on every page

  I was working on a Symfony based project, where it should be possible to login from every page and, of course, come page to the original page after successful login. I couldn't find specific in the Symfony documentation about that, but I found…

• Webpack like manifest.json for Vite

  For recent projects I swtiched to Vite for developping and building my frontend asset. I usually integrate the built CSS and JS files into TYPO3, which automatically creates a cache busting/versioning identifier with the files modified timestamp.…

• FlexForms 2.0 aka Dot Forms

  Have you ever dreamed of creating virtual form fields, known as Flex Forms in TYPO3 CMS, but without that awful XML and even more flexible? I definitely have, so I created an extension for this. It's called dot_forms and allows you to define TCA…

• Multiple domains on the same page tree/site

  In one project, the customer wanted to do a branch split by using the same site and page tree for both brands with 99% identical content. I tried to find a way to make TYPO3 respond on both domains with the same page tree and decide the page and…

• Symfony: Generated UUID in additions to auto incremented id property

  In one of my projects I wanted to add a UUID or GUID to one of the models, that already had an `id` property with a generated value (auto increment). Obviously it is not allowed or not possible to use multiple properties with the `@GeneratedValue`…

• EXT:form error "Unauthorized modification of historical data. #1528538252"

  I recently ran into an error after upgrading from TYPO3 CMS 10.4 to 11.5. When saving a form in the backend i got an exception with the message "Unauthorized modification of historical data. #1528538252". In my case the problem was cause by GridRow…