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What does it do?

Refresh supports the development of TYPO3 extension independent of the TYPO3 versions. It is especially developed to enable a smooth transition for extensions, which should run from TYPO3 6.2 to 9.x.

This extensions doesn’t have any benefit, if you are developing an extension from the scratch for TYPO3 8.7 or 9.x. But you like, that your extension should run with TYPO3 6.2 or 7.6 too.

Concept

You are replacing methods, which depends on a certain TYPO3 version, with methods from Refresh in your extension.

Refresh methods are independent of TYPO3 versions. This means:

A Refresh method

  • takes care of the straight used TYPO3 version
  • and executes a method, which is compatible with the used TYPO3 version