20+ Things Every TYPO3 Extension Developer Must Know

List of TYPO3 tools that will help you at your server.

TYPO3 Server Compatibility

Hassle-free TYPO3 server compatibility check report

This repository contains one PHP file. Where a user can select the TYPO3 version and check the server compatibility with the selected TYPO3 version.

Adminer

Database administration tool 'Adminer'

Adminer is a lightweight alternative for the well-known tool phpMyAdmin. Adminer provides most of the functionality you need when dealing with a database.

The TYPO3 community loves composer, Here is the list of useful TYPO3 composer packages.

TYPO3 Composer Generator

Quick composer generator for your TYPO3 extension

Features are: Avoid Manual Composer.json, Don’t do manual JSON format, Write default TYPO3 configuration, Automatically get dependencies, One-click prepare, Download sample.

Run your TYPO3 instance at the console with some powerful features.

TYPO3 CLI

TYPO3 command-line binary

TYPO3 core provides basic command-line interface features. It is possible to run TYPO3 CMS scripts from the command line. This functionality can be used to set up cronjobs, for example.

TYPO3 Console

A reliable and powerful command-line interface for TYPO3 CMS

TYPO3 Console provides a clean way to register commands and a sane way to call these commands through a command-line tool called typo3cms.

During custom TYPO3 extensions development, the Following packages will help you to be more productive.

TYPO3 CMS Backend Styleguide

TYPO3 CMS Extension to test everything in the TYPO3 Backend

Welcome to the living Styleguide for TYPO3 CMS backend. Presents supported styles for TYPO3 backend modules.

TYPO3 Extension Builder

A tool to kickstart and maintain TYPO3 extensions

The Extension Builder helps you build and manage your Extbase based TYPO3 extensions.

It ships a graphical editor to build your domain model and generates most of the boiler-plate code necessary for you. This includes TCA, Models, Repositories, language files, and other things.

TYPO3 is well-known for its robust security, Here are more security add-ons.

TYPO3 Secure Web

Set up secure TYPO3 web directory containing only public assets

This is a composer package that aims to create a web directory for TYPO3, which only contains the entry scripts and links to public assets.

TYPO3 Extensions Compatibility

Productive Analysis for your next TYPO3 upgrade projects

One of the only TYPO3 extensions which provides all the features like TYPO3 Extensions Compatibility Report, Notification of new update via Email, System overview report, Compatible with all major versions of TYPO3 from 4.x to 9.x.

TYPO3 Backup Plus

All-in-one TYPO3 Backup Solution

First-ever feature-rich TYPO3 backup solution with a manual and scheduled backup. Easy to use and configure. Backup your TYPO3 code, assets, database, etc to your favorite backup clouds/servers.

TYPO3 sudo mode

Double security for unintended backend actions

TYPO3 extension provides "sudo mode" to mitigate unintended modifications.

As an OpenSource TYPO3 developer, It’s our responsibility to make a better quality of TYPO3 code, Here are some tools to make sure ;)

TYPO3 Code Review Tools

7 Best TYPO3 Code Quality, Review & Lint Tools

Are you looking for good practices on TYPO3 code quality? Then, you are in the correct place. In this article, You will find helpful tips and tricks with TYPO3 code review tools and TYPO3 lint to achieve better TYPO3 code quality.

TYPO3 Extension Review with Sonarqube

Automatic Code Review of TER Extensions

Thanks to the Marketing Factory guys who did setup automation TYPO3 code review tool Sonarqube for TER (TYPO3 Extensions Repository).

Some of the useful TYPO3 extensions which do not fit to particular categories, here is the list ;)

Slug

Helps manage the URL slugs of your TYPO3 pages and custom records!

The Slug backend module is designed to help manage large amounts of slugs for pages and extension records. Currently, it provides a simple list for pages and custom records, which can be filtered with different parameters. Slugs can be edited and saved quickly and efficiently.