TYPO3 4.6 – the first alpha is out
Although a few months have passed since TYPO3 4.5 LTS was released, the TYPO3 teams are working hard to get all kinds of new and exciting stuff out for us. The TYPO3.org relaunch project was one of the highlights of this spring but it seems that the core package is also getting some new features [...]
The future of TYPO3 v4
At one local TYPO3 event we were wondering what will happen with TYPO3 v4 after TYPO3 v5 appears. I was wondering too for a while until i found the Berlin Manifesto. The Berlin Manifesto was adopted by the TYPO3 Core team in the autumn of 2008 at a development meeting in Berlin. It clearly states [...]
Some TYPO3 market share statistics
Have you ever wondered how much is TYPO3′s share in the CMS market? Well, i did. And if you didn’t know there are some websites that have these statistics and they update them near real time. One of these sites is W3Techs , a website which monitor lots of things and among other things they [...]
Extbase Kickstarter and eAccelerator from TYPO3 Winstaller conflict
I was playing around with the Extbase Kickstarter this night and i run into a problem quickly. When i changed the display mode to Overview the whole thing crashed and threw me the error: could not determine type of argument “section” of the render-method in ViewHelper “Tx_Fluid_ViewHelpers_RenderViewHelper”. Either the methods docComment is invalid or some [...]
Meet TYPO3 Distributions
People familiar with TYPO3 already know that the process of creating a functional website with TYPO3 can be difficult especially for newbies and the lack of the out of box functionality of TYPO3 scared away many people. Although now there is an Introduction Package that is still hard to use and it doesn’t solve every [...]
TYPO3 Usergroup Romania Meetup 2010 schedule
As you probably know from one of my previous posts, TYPO3 Usergroup Romania is organizing a Meetup on the 4th of December 2010. I will participate with two presentations one of them being a premiere as TYPO3 Distributions will launch only on Friday 03.12.2010. Here is the final schedule: Location: Hotel Vila Rosa, str. Frunzisului [...]
TYPO3 Usergroup Romania Meetup 2010
On the 4th of December 2010, TYPO3 Usergroup Romania is organizing the TYPO3 Usergroup Romania Meetup 2010. This event aims to bring TYPO3 developers from Romania together for a day of presentations, talks, networking and open discussion about TYPO3 and related subjects. The list of presentations is not final yet so i’m not publishing it [...]
A new kid in the TYPO3 block : Tesseract
While searching for some extensions these days i’ve discovered a suite of extensions having Tesseract in their names. After some quick research i’ve found out that in fact Tesseract is a project that makes extracting of data and integrating it with TYPO3 much easier providing tools for data consumption. It is being presented officially at [...]
TYPO3 Powermail – let the user choose if he wants confirmation email or not
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 [...]
Add a file upload to TYPO3 Flexform
I was wondering for a long time if this is possible. To add a file upload to a TYPO3 Flexform. But i never had the real need to implement something like this. Until today. I run into a problem where the only solution seemed to be a file upload in the extension’s flexform. And i [...]
Typoscript: wrap only if content is not empty
Often i run into this problem in TYPO3 : i have to wrap a content element with Typoscript but ONLY if there is content. This has an easy solution but all too often i forget it and have to search it up again. So this time i post it here and maybe it helps others [...]
Job posting: Arxia is hiring PHP developers
Because the growing number of projects, here at Arxia, (the company i work) we’re looking for good PHP developers again. We do TYPO3 and Drupal development 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 [...]
How to create a Recycle Bin / Trash feature in TYPO3′s fileadmin
Did you know that you can create a Recycle Bin / Trash feature in TYPO3′s fileadmin ? It will work just like a Recycle Bin, when you delete a file instead of being deleted instantly it will be moved into the recycle folder. This is a hidden feature of TYPO3 and it doesn’t need any [...]
TYPO3 extension: Google Web Font Loader
Not so long ago i was writing about the new Google Web Fonts launched at the latest Google I/O. Well i thought for a time to write an extension that will allow the use of these fonts in a TYPO3 system just by installing the extension and choosing the font. Unfortunately i didn’t had the [...]
Weekly article batch 3
From this week i will try to resuscitate my weekly article batches. Here is the most interesting articles from the last week: Drupal 7 Vs. WordPress 3: Battle Of The New Features : an interesting read about the two highly anticipated open-source CMS releases of the year. You guessed correctly. Its about Drupal 7 and [...]
