Enabling PHP file uploads in TYPO3 Backend

lacisoft — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:45:50 +0000

At one project i’m working on i had to upload php files in a TYPO3 backend form. But the form was just throwing me the message that php files are not allowed as uploads. After some digging i found the solution to this problem. Actually it’s quite easy to fix.

The only thing you need to do is to add the following configurations directives into TYPO3′s localconf.php file:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['fileExtensions']['webspace']['allow'] = 'php';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['fileExtensions']['webspace']['deny'] = '';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['fileDenyPattern'] = '';

After you did this you should clear the cache and you should be able to upload php files.

NOTE: Allow upload of php files only in situations when you know for sure that these are files or users that can be trusted. Allowing the upload of unverified php files by untrusted users poses a GREAT SECURITY RISK!

Typo3 file upload problems

lacisoft — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:05:56 +0000

I’ve encountered some problems with the TYPO3 backend’s way of handling files during some work on a picture upload extension. Specifically TYPO3 moves all files you upload to the folder designed as uploadfolder in the field’s TCA setup.

But i do not want this. I want him to leave the files where i put them. Unfortunately replacing the uploadfolder value with an empty string made TYPO3 to store the whole path to the file, something like: var/www/vhosts/example.com/…

This is not good either. I want him to store the relative filepath to the fileadmin folder. I’ve discovered this issue on the TYPO3 bugtracker which provided me the solution. There is also a nice little extension called eM References that enables you to change this behavior.

After you installed the extension practically you need to change in TCA the internal type of the field from ‘file’ to ‘file_references’ and skip the uploadfolder setting entirely. This way the file will be uploaded where you need it and a relative path (a filereference) is stored in the database. No more copying of the file made by TYPO3 in places you didn’t want to.

To ease your work, here is an example configuration for a TCA entry of file_references type

"tx_myext_filereferences" => Array (

        "exclude" => 1,

        "label" => "LLL:EXT:myext/locallang_db.xml:tt_content.tx_myext_filereferences",

        "config" => Array (

            "type" => "group",

            "internal_type" => "file_references",

            "allowed" => $GLOBALS["TYPO3_CONF_VARS"]["GFX"]["imagefile_ext"],

            "max_size" => 1000,

            "show_thumbs" => 1,

            "size" => 3,

            "minitems" => 0,

            "maxitems" => 10,

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Enabling PHP file uploads in TYPO3 Backend

Typo3 file upload problems