i took on a project from a customer, that has the following setup:

• a Typo3 V10.4.12 (already a composer installation)
• there are already extensions installed
• no extension manager in the Typo3 backend

So the problem is: I need to install some additional extensions (blog, mask). But there is no (main) composer.json file in the project. I don´t know what happened (maybe deleted by the former developer by mistake?). There is no backup of the file etc.

Is there a way to automatically generate a composer.json? Or do i have to write it by my own?

Thanks in advance! harleqeen247

CodePudding user response：

There is a EXT:migrate2composer, maybe it can help you.

To configure/change the installation, maybe the CLI could help you if you have a working shell:

In a composer installation execute:

./vendor/bin/typo3 

In a non-composer installation execute:

php ./typo3/sysext/core/bin/typo3 

There's also a tutorial "Migrate TYPO3 Project to Composer" as part of the official docs, but this seems to match your case.

CodePudding user response：

Thank you. The extension migrate2composer worked (at least on a local dev environment).

I did the following:

1. Deactivate composer mode (in vendor/typo3/autoload-include.php)
2. Install migrate2composer via extension manager
3. Run command from extension migrate2composer to print and show all "composer-errors" -> result was the required composer.json
4. Add the new composer.json and reactivate composer mode
5. Installed the required extensions via composer

Regards