README

TYPO3 extension: "buildinfo"

Content

• What does it do?
• Installation
• Configuration
• FAQs
  • How do I create the 3 files?

What does it do?

This extension shows the content of 3 different text files in the system information toolbar. These informations are:

• Build number
• Build timestamp
• Git version

Installation

The extension can easily be installed using composer:

composer install buildinfo

Configuration

The extension comes with Typoscript settings to configure the names of the 3 files, responsible for the displayed content. The default values are:

• Build number: buildNumber.txt
• Build timestamp: buildTimestamp.txt
• Git version: gitVersion.txt

If a file is not present, no information is shown in the information toolbar.

FAQs

How do I create the 3 files?

We use a CI/CD process to build our composer TYPO3 projects into Docker containers. During this process we create 3 files and place them into the containers web folder root directory.