During my recent PHP/TYPO3 adventures I had to come up with some extra array functionality to grab my desired data from an array. Shockingly I couldn't find any official PHP way to do this. So I created my own.

After some time of silence it was time for an update on my advanced sitemaps extension. It took a while but all open bugs and feature request have been processed, and I'm proud to announce that version 1.1.0 of this extension is now available from the TER.

Something I needed to do a while ago, and I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to share it. It's a quick way to divide an array into equal segments. Just take a look at the function code.

Sometimes I wonder how far you can actually go in using just TypoScript to achieve your technical challenges. Today I will show how you create a simple page teaser with multilingual support by just using some TypoScript.

This is something really cool I had to create recently for one of my projects. I actually had to create a page teaser, which due to the simplicity of the teaser I decided to do with TypoScript (I will show how to make the teaser in the next post). First I will show how you can get the translated page title without creating any weird constructions.

I have to admit it has been a while since I wrote anything. For that I'm really sorry. There are several reasons for this. So let me tell you a little about what's going one.

Many times, when taking a short peek through new extensions in the TER, I find plenty of extensions that use PHP's native MySQL functions to access the database. In my previous post I already described why this something wrong, and why you should avoid it. In this article I will show you how it should be done, and how you can write less and cleaner code by doing so.

While developing and reviewing TYPO3 extension, you occasionally come upon pretty funny and sometimes disturbing stuff. At some point we all have to learn new things. So we can't expect it all to go right and well from the start.

Some days ago I got a request from someone who was interested in my code snippets plugin. At that time I couldn't really offer the extension, it was simply too specific for my own website. Now that I've made some changes, I feel more comfortable with making it public.

Sometimes, the normal approach for adding extra fields to a table will just not do. For example, if you don't really know what the other table is going to be. I came across this challenge some days ago. I was working on my sitemaps extension and wanted to have some nice options to use inside Google Sitemaps. To keep it flexible I didn't want to predefine the tables. So how do we add fields to a table, without actually adding them to a table?