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TYPO3 Powermail – let the user choose if he wants confirmation email or not

lacisoft — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:29:08 +0000

TYPO3′s Powermail extension is a great mailform tool that allows you to collect all kinds of data from users and send them through email to you and to the user. But sometimes maybe the user doesn’t want to receive back this information. I didn’t know until now but i learned today that you can let the user choose if he wants a conformation email or not.

Its very simple. You need to create a checkbox type of input with some text like for example : “Send me a copy of this message”. After that you set up the following typoscript in your page’s template:

plugin.tx_powermail_pi1.allow.email2sender >
plugin.tx_powermail_pi1.allow.email2sender = TEXT
plugin.tx_powermail_pi1.allow.email2sender.data = TSFE:fe_user|sesData|powermail_141|uid34|0

plugin.tx_powermail_pi1 {
    allow {
	email2sender = TEXT
	email2sender.value = {$plugin.powermail.allow.email2sender}
    }
}

In the snippet above you need to change the following numbers: 141 – this is the id of your tt_content for powermail, 34 this is the uid of the field that enables the email sending or not (defined in the form).

It’s as simple as that

Invitation to the second TYPO3 Garage in Cluj Napoca

lacisoft — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:49:26 +0000

As you might know i was a presenter at the first TYPO3 Garage held in Cluj Napoca. Now we at TYPO3 Romania in collaboration with Arxia Group organize the second edition of this event. I have a presentation again and i hereby invite all interested people to this event.

Here is the full announcement :

In our ongoing effort to popularize and promote TYPO3, we will be organizing the second TYPO3 Garage in Cluj Napoca. This is a workshop with the following topics:

- Powermail (presented by Diana Florescu)

- Introduction to TemplaVoila (presented by Bodor László)

- Web accessibility (presented by Kerekes József)

Where

At Arxia’s headquarters on Paraului Street 2B, Cluj Napoca, Romania. If you can’t find the place give us a call at 0733670659 and we will guide you.

When

On the 28th of April 2010, at 19.00 pm

Participation

Participation is free but let us know that you’re coming by dropping an email to alina.fleser[at]arxiagroup.com

Note

Please beware that all presentations will be held in romanian language.

Powermail file upload size

lacisoft — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:22:03 +0000

TYPO3′s Powermail extension has the ability to upload files. That’s cool. But what if you need to specify a limit on the file size so you don’t get 5 MB large pictures for something that should just be a profile photo and should be fairly small.

There is a solution. Go edit your root TypoScript template setup and insert the following code into it:

plugin.tx_powermail_pi1.upload.filesize=2048

This will allow the uploading of files up to 2048 kb’s in size (2 MB)

Older powermail versions and config.absRefPrefix

lacisoft — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:55:35 +0000

After having some problems with MSIE i activated on one of my sites the config.absRefPrefix directive and set a prefix to all of my URL. I knew that this might cause some problems, especially with RealURL.

But after some testing i found out that RealURL is working as expected but Powermail forms doesn’t. They submit the form to a wrong URL. After some digging i found the solution. It seems that older versions of Powermail (mine was 1.4.7) doesn’t handle correctly the config.absRefPrefix setting.

So i upgraded to the latest version and this solved my problem. Maybe it will help some of you too.

Powermail javascript bug

lacisoft — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:11:12 +0000

Powermail the popular Typo3 extension used to display forms and send the data through email has a bug in version 1.4.10 that generates a javascript error like this:

var Validator = Class.create();

‘Class’ is not defined

I found that this is caused by a configuration setting in ext_typoscript_setup.txt

If you wondered, there is a workaround until a new version is released:

Find the following code in ext_typoscript_setup.txt :

page.includeJS.file31311 = EXT:powermail/js/checkbox/checkbox.js
page.headerData.31310 < lib.powermail_dynJavascript
seite.headerData.31310 < page.headerData.31310
seite.includeJS.31311 < page.includeJS.file31311
seite.includeJS.31312 < page.includeJS.file31312
seite.includeJS.31313 < page.includeJS.file31313
seite.includeJS.31314 < page.includeJS.file31314

and change it with:

[userFunc = user_powermailOnCurrentPage()]
page.includeJS.file31311 = EXT:powermail/js/checkbox/checkbox.js
page.headerData.31310 < lib.powermail_dynJavascript
seite.headerData.31310 < page.headerData.31310
seite.includeJS.31311 < page.includeJS.file31311
seite.includeJS.31312 < page.includeJS.file31312
seite.includeJS.31313 < page.includeJS.file31313
seite.includeJS.31314 < page.includeJS.file31314
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About Typo3, powermail and sr_freecap problems

lacisoft — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:31:44 +0000

I didn’t post for a while because i am busy with my project wich involves building a website using Typo3 as foundation and several extensions for Typo3 like sr_freecap and powermail. What prompted this post is the numerous problems i encountered using the mentioned open source software.

1) The latest Typo3 releases are plagued by bugs, serious bugs. After the announcement that they discovered some serious security problems in the Typo3 core they released a new version: Typo3 4.2.4. As any user concerned with security i upgraded immediately to this version. And the problems started to appear. I discovered this when the extension sr_freecap stopped accepting valid captcha codes claiming everything i enter is invalid. I traced this back to a session storage problem in a short amount of time.

It seems that Typo3 4.2.4 introduced a very serious bug that prevents session data to be stored in user session if the developer uses Typo3′s internal methods to store session data. In the bug report there is a workaround for this at least until the bug is fixed. Otherwise you need to downgrade to Typo3 4.2.3 which as we know has security issues. I applied the workaround for now, waiting for a new version.

I read today that they released version 4.2.5 to fix this regression, but new reports already emerged claiming that this fix introduces other problems. So i will wait a bit before upgrading to 4.2.5

2) Extension sr_freecap (version 1.1.0) will not work togheter with certain versions of powermail (version 1.4.6). More exactly if you install powermail 1.4.6 then sr_freecap will stop showing the captcha image. After removal of the powermail extension, it will work again. I didn’t tried to look into more details about this because i really don’t need that much the powermail extension, so i just removed it.

3) After a while the sr_freecap extension started to throw me the message: “Sorry, service is interrupted“. In fact this is not a bug. It was my mistake because i entered invalid captcha codes and went beyond the default 100 maximum attempts to enter an invalid captcha. The setting can be found in the file ext_typoscript_constants.txt just look for maxAttempts and set it to a higher value for testing. After you finished your site, you can set it back to a lower value.

I hope this helps other developers who encounter these issues.