like_it
jweiland/like-it
4.1
en
Stefan Froemken
This document is published under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:09:31 +0000
Like nearly any frontend content thanks to a custom view helper. No login required.
Table of Contents:
This extension allows you to integrate a like button functionality for nearly any frontend plugin (Text, events, news, ...).
If your TYPO3 installation works in composer mode, please execute following command:
composer req jweiland/like-it
vendor/bin/typo3 extension:setup --extension=like_itIf you work with DDEV please execute this command:
ddev composer req jweiland/like-it
ddev exec vendor/bin/typo3 extension:setup --extension=like_itOn non composer based TYPO3 installations you can install like_ still
over the ExtensionManager:
Login
Login to backend of your TYPO3 installation as an administrator or system maintainer.
Open ExtensionManager
Click on Extensions from the left menu to open the ExtensionManager.
Update Extensions
Choose Get Extensions from the upper selectbox and click on
the Update now button at the upper right.
Install like_
Use the search field to find like_. Choose the like_ line
from the search result and click on the cloud
icon to install like_.
First of all: do you want to implement like_ in your own extension or do
you need like_ for a foreign extension?
We need to add some lines of TypoScript
Locate File
Open the setup. file of your extension. In most cases you should
find it in [your.
Locate view Part
Find the part, where you define the template paths for fluid. In most cases
you should find it here plugin.. See example
based on maps2:
plugin.tx_maps2 {
view {
templateRootPaths {
0 = EXT:maps2/Resources/Private/Templates/
10 = {$plugin.tx_maps2.view.templateRootPath}
}
partialRootPaths {
0 = EXT:maps2/Resources/Private/Partials/
10 = {$plugin.tx_maps2.view.partialRootPath}
}
layoutRootPaths {
0 = EXT:maps2/Resources/Private/Layouts/
10 = {$plugin.tx_maps2.view.layoutRootPath}
}
}
}Register Partial
like_ comes with a special fluid partial containing all the stuff
it needs. You have to add that partial path to your TypoScript
configuration.
Please replace extkey with the extension key of your extension. If your
extension key contains underscores: remove them before pasting your
extension key here.
plugin.tx_extkey {
view {
templateRootPaths {
0 = EXT:extkey/Resources/Private/Templates/
10 = {$plugin.tx_extkey.view.templateRootPath}
}
partialRootPaths {
0 = EXT:extkey/Resources/Private/Partials/
10 = {$plugin.tx_extkey.view.partialRootPath}
20 = EXT:like_it/Resources/Private/Partials/
}
layoutRootPaths {
0 = EXT:extkey/Resources/Private/Layouts/
10 = {$plugin.tx_extkey.view.layoutRootPath}
}
}
}Add Partial to Your Template
With like_ you can just like ONE record. It's not possible to
like a collection of records. So, please locate and open the template
file for single or detail view of a record. Path
[your is a good start to find
the templates for detail view. Could be Detail., Single. or
Properties.. Search a good place to call the like_ partial:
<f:render partial="Rating" arguments="{table: 'tablename_of_your_record', uid: object.uid}"/>Add Dependency
As your extension now needs like_ as dependency you should add it into
your ext_:
...
'constraints' => [
'depends' => [
'typo3' => '10.4.36-11.5.99',
'like_it' => '2.0.0-2.99.99',
],
'conflicts' => [
],
'suggests' => [
],
],
...And please update your composer.:
...
"require": {
"typo3/cms-core": "^10.4.36 || ^11.5.23",
"jweiland/like-it": "^2.0"
},
...Done
Now you're ready. Please test the integration, check the database
entries of tx_ and check browser development console
for any warnings and/or errors.
We need to add some lines of TypoScript into your site-package extension
to overwrite the TypoScript of the foreign extension. We prefer using
a site-package extension, but of cause, you can add these lines of
TypoScript also into TypoScript template records (sys_).
Overwrite Foreign Fluid Template
Search for a detail view template file in the foreign extension and
paste it into a directory somewhere in Resources/ of
your site-package extension.
Overwrite Template Path
You have to inform Fluid to search for templates in path of your
site-package extension first. Here an example how it can looks like for
extension events2:
plugin.tx_events2 {
view {
templateRootPaths {
# Choose a value higher than the value of foreign extension.
# In most cases 100 is enough.
# If you're unsure check value in foreign extension or with
# TypoScript Object Browser
100 = EXT:site_package/Resources/Private/Extensions/Events2/Templates/
}
}
}Register Partial
like_ comes with a special fluid partial containing all the stuff
it needs. You have to add that partial path to your TypoScript
configuration.
plugin.tx_events2 {
view {
templateRootPaths {
# see code from above
}
partialRootPaths {
# Choose a value higher than the value of foreign extension.
# In most cases 100 is enough.
# If you're unsure check value in foreign extension or with
# TypoScript Object Browser
100 = EXT:like_it/Resources/Private/Partials/
}
}
}Add Partial to Overwritten Template
With like_ you can just like ONE record. It's not possible to
like a collection of records. Search a good place to call the like_
partial in your overwritten detail view template:
<f:render partial="Rating" arguments="{table: 'tablename_of_foreign_record', uid: object.uid}"/>For news it could look like:
<f:render partial="Rating" arguments="{table: 'tx_news_domain_model_news', uid: newsItem.uid}"/>Add dependency
As your site-package now needs like_ as dependency you should add it
into your ext_:
...
'constraints' => [
'depends' => [
'typo3' => '10.4.36-11.5.99',
'like_it' => '2.0.0-2.99.99',
],
'conflicts' => [
],
'suggests' => [
],
],
...And please update your composer.:
...
"require": {
"typo3/cms-core": "^10.4.36 || ^11.5.23",
"jweiland/like-it": "^2.0"
},
...Done
Now you're ready. Please test the integration, check the database
entries of tx_ and check browser development console
for any warnings and/or errors.
This chapter describes how to manage the extension from a superuser point of view.
If you update EXT:like_it to a newer version, please read this section carefully!
We have removed TYPO3 12 compatibility.
No active items to track.
We have removed TYPO3 10 and 11 compatibility.
ViewHelper AmountOfLikes has beed removed. All numbers of likes are collected via an AJAX call. Please try to keep the CSS classes in sync with templates of EXT:like_it.
With TYPO3 v10 the fluid widget integration was deprecated and will be remove.
That's why we have to completely restructure our like_ extension.
Please remove this namespace from template:
{namespace jw=JWeiland\LikeIt\ViewHelpers}Please remove following line:
<jw:widget.rating uid="{data.uid}" table="tt_content" />and replace it with our new partial integration:
<f:render partial="Rating" arguments="{table: 'tablename_of_foreign_record', uid: object.uid}"/>Read the Configure like-it how to register loading the new partial.
like-it to like_it in documentation