A few tips for TYPO3’s HtmlArea RTE configuration
I worked this week with the HtmlArea RTE from TYPO3 more then i ever did on a project before. And i learned some tricks that are very useful when you try to make this RTE to work as you want it. I’m sharing these with you, maybe someone needs them.
All these settings need to be [...]
Typoscript snippet for creating breadcrumbs
A nice little Typoscript snippet that demonstrates how a simple breadcrumb can be created with TS. The last element of the breadcrumb will not be linked.
lib.breadcrumbs = HMENU
lib.breadcrumbs.special = rootline
lib.breadcrumbs.special.range = 0
lib.breadcrumbs.1 = TMENU
lib.breadcrumbs.1 {
noBlur = 1
NO.linkWrap = <li> | > |*||*| |< /li>
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New TYPO3 book on the block
I’ve learned today about a new TYPO3 book – the TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook written by Dan Osipov and published by Packt Publishing. They were kind enough to provide me a free copy for review. I will be receiving a copy in short time and will publish an extensive review of this book. I just wanted [...]
How to style your htmlArea RTE in TYPO3
The default htmlArea RTE in TYPO3’s backend renders the textarea content in a pretty ugly fashion. It looks like in the HTML 1.0 ages. But you can change that using just a few lines of code and a css file. How to accomplish this you might wonder. Its easy.
Go edit your root page (or some [...]
Powermail file upload size
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 [...]
I will be presenting at TYPO3 Garage Cluj Napoca
After the first TYPO3 meeting in Cluj held in October, next week will be organized the first TYPO3 Garage. The event is a workshop on two distinct subjects:
1. Creating a backend module for the listing and advanced search of the content elements – this presentation will be held by Alina Fleser (Arxia Group)
2. Multidomain Content Sharing: [...]
3 useful TYPO3 links
I’ve come across two great articles and some novelties about the upcoming 4.3 version of TYPO3, here they come:
45 minutes TypoScript – one of the most comprehensive tutorial about TypoScript i’ve ever seen since i work with TYPO3. It has a few nice and useful code examples too.
Using existing hooks in your own extension – [...]
Job posting: Arxia is looking for PHP developers
Arxia, the company i work for is looking for good PHP developers. We do TYPO3 and Drupal outsourcing but we also have some other PHP projects that require more resources.
So:
Do you have experience with PHP and MySQL ?
You are comfortable with working on other people’s code ?
You are willing to learn new things ?
You are [...]
Additional columns in TYPO3’s Web-Page Module
Sometimes the available columns in TYPO3’s web-page module seem to be insufficent. You have Left, Right, Normal and Border.
But what if you want more?
Maybe you have four columns Left, Normal, Central and Right. And besides that you also have Header, Footer and Border.
Its possible. In TYPO3 you can alter these columns to suit your needs. [...]
Older powermail versions and config.absRefPrefix
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 [...]
Typo3 meeting Cluj Napoca
Yesterday, 6 october 2009 took place the first TYPO3 meeting in our city, Cluj Napoca, event organized by Typo3Romania. This event was intended to be a start for a whole series of meetings, presentations about TYPO3. The main goal of the meetings and presentations is the popularize TYPO3 among web developers and clients and to [...]
Sending newsletters with the Direct Mail Typo3 extension
A short video tutorial on how to send out newsletters with the Direct Mail Typo3 extension.
TemplaVoila Video Tutorials
I’ve found today two short video tutorials on Youtube about getting started with the Templavoila extension in Typo3. They are not so comprehensive and the info bubbles are in dutch (i think) but they can help those of you who are just getting started with TemplaVoila.
Part I
Part II
Opera and Typo3 ? Thanks but no thanks.
I’ve downloaded a while ago Opera 10 and once in a while i open it up just to see how it works and how it evolves. But a few days ago i decided that i try to work on it for a full day to get a more comprehensive image of what can this browser [...]
Extension for removing path elements generated by RealURL
The RealURL extension for TYPO3 is a great tool for generating search engine and user friendly urls for your TYPO3 page. But the extension could have some options to customize more the page segments that are beeing generated. The drawbacks are evident: you have no user friendly way to override the generated paths and it [...]
