christianessl/impersonate

Impersonate frontend users from inside the TYPO3 Backend.

4.0.0 2025-04-09 14:35 UTC

Requires

• typo3/cms-backend: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-extbase: ^13.4
• typo3/cms-frontend: ^13.4

Requires (Dev)

• ergebnis/composer-normalize: ^2.30
• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.14
• helmich/typo3-typoscript-lint: ^3.1
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules: ^2.0
• seld/jsonlint: ^1.9
• spaze/phpstan-disallowed-calls: ^4.0
• ssch/typo3-rector: ^3.0
• tomasvotruba/cognitive-complexity: ^1.0
• tomasvotruba/type-coverage: ^2.0
• typo3/coding-standards: ^0.8

Replaces

• typo3-ter/impersonate: 4.0.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Christian Essl
• Axel Böswetter

• extension
• typo3

README

Impersonate frontend users from inside the TYPO3 Backend.

What does it do?

This extension gives backend users with administrator privileges the possibility to authenticate as any specific frontend user in the frontend with just a single click from inside the backend. This does not include default backend users.

And remember: With great power comes great responsibility. The purpose of this extension is mainly to allow for a tech support login as a specific user and see potential problems and bugs from the perspective of the user as well as doing tech support actions while impersonating the specified user account.

Compatibility

Impersonate	TYPO3	PHP	Support / Development
4.x	13.4	8.2 - 8.4	features, bugfixes, security updates
3.x	12.4	8.1 - 8.3	features, bugfixes, security updates
2.x	11.5	7.4 - 8.3	bugfixes, security updates
1.1.x	10.4	7.0 - 7.4	none
1.0.x	8.7 - 9.5	7.0 - 7.4	none

1. Installation

Installation with composer

composer require christianessl/impersonate.

Installation with TER

Open the TYPO3 Extension Manager, search for impersonate and install the extension.

2. Configuration (optional)

• Go to the Site Management/Sites module in the backend and include the Impersonate site set as dependency to your site configuration.
• Afterward open the Site Management/Settings module and set the id of the target page to redirect an admin to when impersonating a frontend user via the backend:
  • tx_impersonate.loginRedirectPid

3. Usage

• Go to the list module as a backend user with administrator privileges, open a page / sysfolder with frontend user records and click the "Impersonate user" button.
• Voila! You are now logged in as the chosen frontend user.

Authors

• See the list of contributors who participated in this project.