Category Archives: PHP

Programmatically adding PHP generated TypoScript to the backend configuration

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Today I’ve struggled with adding PHP generated TypoScript configuration to the backend. There doesn’t seem to be an API for this, unfortunately, so I had to dig a little bit into the TYPO3 source.

Turns out that t3lib_befunc#getPagesTSconfig, which is responsible for retrieving TypoScript configuration for the backend, makes use of the following global variable as the “default TypoScript configuration”:

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['BE']['defaultPageTSconfig']

So, being short of a proper API, I ended up simply appending my generated configuration to the defaultPageTSconfig string (in my ext_localconf.php file).

Is there a better way to achieve the same thing? If so, let me know :)

Installing NewRelic into MAMP on Mac OS X

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Easy as pie if you know how to do it (actually this works for installing NewRelic anywhere that is not a standard Apache/PHP path) :)

  • Download the New Relic installer files (as a .tar.gz package)
  • Find out your MAMP PHP path (mine was /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin)
  • Go to your unpacked new relic installer files and execute
sudo NR_INSTALL_PHPLIST='<your mamp php path>' ./newrelic-install
  • Follow the instructions in the installer (don’t forget to edit your php.ini, the installer gives you instructions on what to add)

And voilá, worked like a charm :)

PS: New Relic is kind of awesome!

Proper redirecting in TYPO3 (from within PHP)

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Redirecting in PHP is easy:

$url = "http://coding-journal.com/";
header("Location: $url");

But there is tons of stuff to worry about when doing a header redirect, for instance:

  • What HTTP status will be sent?
  • Is the URL I’m throwing into the header-call really absolute?

  • Does my script exit after the header-call? (Because there should be no HTTP body if you send a Location: ... header and sending one may lead to unexpected behavior in some browsers).

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Hands on PHPFog Beta

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Many of you may already be familiar with cloud platforms such as Heroku and Google App Engine which allow you to easily deploy scalable web applications with a minimal administration effort. Today I’ll be checking out PHPFog, a new cloud platform for (you guessed it) PHP.

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