[Typo3] General Approach for Finding Typo3 Classes/Methods

[media.res | alex widschwendter]

hi nick,

> What is your approach when you are trying to work with Typo3 classes,
> but you don't know where the function (method) you are looking for is
> located and how it is called?

install the extdeval extension, with this you get an menu at the top of
your backend where you can find almost everything....

or debuging the GLOBALS variable also gives some insight ..

> I've just been looking for a method that returns the path to an
> extension folder. I remember that there was a method particularly for
> that purpose, but I can't find it anymore. At least neither in
> class.tslib_pibase.php nor in class.t3lib_div.php.

t3lib_extMgm::extPath($_EXTKEY)

hth alex