Lots of error messages in TYPO3 log regarding globalVar = TSFE:type = 28032013

[cdaecke]

Describe the bug The extension produces lots of errors in the TYPO3 logfile when including the static template pdfviewhelpers - EXT:news:

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:14:03 +0200 [ERROR] request="918efe0c5c9a5" component="TYPO3.CMS.Frontend.Configuration.TypoScript.ConditionMatching.ConditionMatcher": Expression could not be parsed. - {"expression":"globalVar = TSFE:type = 28032013"}

As the error message states, this is due to the fact, that TYPO3 10 does not support the old typoscript conditions anymore.

Environment TYPO3 version:v10.4.8 pdfviewhelpers version: v2.3.4

Steps to reproduce Just install the extension and include the static template pdfviewhelpers - EXT:news.

Expected behavior No entries in logfile.

Possible solution Remove TYPO3 8 compatibility so you can remove the condition in TypoScriot/Extensions/News/Setup.txt

Last but not least: Great extension, thank you for sharing!

[cdaecke]

Just found this https://github.com/bithost-gmbh/pdfviewhelpers/issues/169, so you are already aware of this issue ;-)

[maechler]

@cdaecke Thanks for your well written error report! I wanted to add support for TYPO3 v10 in a backwards compatible manner. But I agree that we could probably drop support for TYPO3 v8 now in favour of a clean error log.

As a workaround you could simply include the part of TypoScript/Extensions/News/setup.txt where it says Type condition for TYPO3 9 and 10 LTS in your own TypoScript setup and remove the static template.

If you like the extension, please consider giving it a star on GitHub :)

[maechler]

We should also update the TypoScript conditions in the documentation to [getTSFE().type == 28032013].

[cdaecke]

As a workaround you could simply include the part of TypoScript/Extensions/News/setup.txt where it says Type condition for TYPO3 9 and 10 LTS in your own TypoScript setup and remove the static template.

That`s what I did so far, but it is not update save ;-)

[maechler]

This should be fixed with v2.4.0 as we dropped support for TYPO3 v8. I will however keep this issue open to update the documentation.