Global meta information about TYPO3

General information

The PHP class \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Information\Typo3Information provides an API for general information, links and copyright information about TYPO3.

The following methods are available:

getCopyrightYear() will return a string with the current copyright years (for example "1998-2020")
getHtmlGeneratorTagContent() will return the backend meta generator tag with copyright information
getInlineHeaderComment() will return the TYPO3 header comment rendered in all frontend requests ("This website is powered by TYPO3...")
getCopyrightNotice() will return the TYPO3 copyright notice

Warning

DO NOT prevent the copyright notice from being shown in ANY WAY. According to the GPL license an interactive application must show such a notice on start-up ('If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice... ' ) Therefore preventing this notice from being properly shown is a violation of the license, regardless of whether you remove it or use a stylesheet to obstruct the display.

Version Information

PHP class \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Information\Typo3Version provides an API for accessing information about the currently used TYPO3 version.

getVersion() will return the full TYPO3 version (for example 10.4.3)
getBranch() will return the current branch (for example 10.4)
getMajorVersion() will return the major version number (for example 10)
__toString() will return the result of getVersion()