Metamorph - TYPO3 CMS to TYPO3 Flow converter

Table of Contents

• Synopsis
• Installation
• Features (current)
• Features (planned)
• Further reading

Caution

This package is currently unter heavy development and by no means stable! APIs and behaviour can change at any point without notice.

Synopsis

Metamorph is a tool intended for converting TYPO3 sites into TYPO3 Flow applications and (later) TYPO3 Neos sites.

Installation

Metamorph is a TYPO3 Flow package. Currently, the best way to install it is to use the distribution package, using Composer.

Alternatively, you can require it using composer:

{
    "require": {
        "mittwald-typo3/flow-metamorph": "*"
    }
}

Features (current)

• Convert Extbase extensions into TYPO3 Flow packages. This includes:

  • Rewriting non-namespaced classes to namespaced classes

  • Replace Extbase classes with their TYPO3 Flow counterparts, where possible and provide compatibility classes otherwise

  • Replace Extbase annotations (like @inject) the respective Flow annotations (like @Flow\Inject), including namespace import.

  • Enrich Extbase domain models with annotations for the Doctrine2 ORM framework.

  • Translate locallang XML files to XLIFF.

  • Create Doctrine migrations for converted entity classes.

  • Option to keep the existing database structure

• Convert pibase extensions into TYPO3 Flow packages. This includes:

  • Rewriting non-namespaced classes to namespaced classes

Features (planned)

• More features for Extbase migration:

  • (add custom wishes here)

• Convert pibase extensions into TYPO3 Flow packages. This includes:

  • Rewrite classes to use TYPO3 Flow APIs where possible, and provice compatibility classes otherwise

  • Generate controller classes wrapping the migrated plugin classes

• Convert plugins (both Extbase and piBase) into TYPO3 Neos plugins.

• Convert TYPO3’s page tree into the TYPO3 Neos content repository format

Further reading

• "Getting started" guide

• Transformation reference

• In-depth technical manual