show some tt_content via typoscript object on every place you want:

lib.tsobject = RECORDS
lib.tsobject{
  tables = tt_content
   source = content id
}

activate BE-compressing:

Compressing resource files will save bandwidth and so improve loading speed especially for users
with slower internet connections. TYPO3 can compress the .js and .css files for you.

localconf.php:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['compressionLevel'] = '9';

.htaccess:

<FilesMatch "\.js\.gzip$">
    AddType "text/javascript" .gzip
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.css\.gzip$">
    AddType "text/css" .gzip
</FilesMatch>
AddEncoding gzip .gzip

show page-id’s in BE, type the following lines into the BE-USER-TS oder BE-USERGROUP-TS:

options.pageTree.showPageIdWithTitle=1

automatically fill out author in BE (tt_news & pages):

TCAdefaults.pages.author :=author_return(realName)
TCAdefaults.tt_news.author :=author_return(realName)

That’s all for today – have fun!

TYPO3 inspiring people to share

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With the new TYPO3 Version 4.5 a new problem appears … damn.

No more sendmail function, no testmail (install tool), no mail from contact-forms …

Here is the solution: Change in localconf.php

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['MAIL']['transport'] = 'mail';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['MAIL']['transport_sendmail_command'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs'

to

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['MAIL']['transport'] = 'sendmail';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['MAIL']['transport_sendmail_command'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f mail@domain.com';

Of course you need a valid email address!

That’s all – it works!

further information:

• http://jweiland.net/typo3/versionen/version-45.html
• http://faq.hosteurope.de/index.php?cpid=11073

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Today i present:

Disable  Flexform Elements from tt_news:

paste into PageTS:

TCEFORM.tt_news.datetime.disabled = 0
TCEFORM.tt_news.editlock.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.image.disabled = 0
TCEFORM.tt_news.imagecaption.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.imagealttext.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.imagetitletext.disabled = 0
TCEFORM.tt_news.related.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.short.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.bodytext.disabled = 0
TCEFORM.tt_news.author.disabled = 0
TCEFORM.tt_news.author_email.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.news_files.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.links.disabled = 0
TCEFORM.tt_news.keywords.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.archivedate.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.ext_url.disabled = 1
TCEFORM.tt_news.fe_group.disabled = 1
...

activate new tt_news articles automatically (not hidden):

again, paste into PageTS:

TCAdefaults.tt_news.hidden = 0

insert a Logout-Button on feeditadvanced Layout:

First, add this to your root TS-Setup:

[globalVar = TSFE : beUserLogin > 0]
lib.belogout = TEXT
lib.belogout.value = <a class="belogout" title="Logout!" href="typo3/logout.php?redirect=../index.php">Logout</a>
[global]

now you will need a TS-Object or a PageMARKER inside your FE-Template, like …

lib.belogout

just add some CSS like:

.belogout {
 display: inline-block;
 padding-top: 4px;
 margin: 2px 10px 0 0;
 height: 21px;
 text-decoration: none;
 cursor: pointer;
 text-align: center;
 color: #c6c6c6;
 background: url(../../typo3conf/ext/feeditadvanced/res/icons/menubar/button.png) no-repeat 0 0;
 font-size: 12px;
 width: 92px;
 -moz-border-radius: 5px;
 -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
 z-index: 8001;
 position: fixed;
 right: 100px;
 top:1px;
 color: #fff;
}
.belogout:hover, .belogout:active, .belogout:visited {color:#fff; text-decoration:none;}

Now your Logout-Button looks like the feeditadvanced Layout und works …

That’s all for today.

TYPO3 – Inspiring people to share – Yeah that’s right!

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The latest TYPO3 version 4.4 makes TYPO3 easier than ever – especially for newbies. Your TYPO3 website can be up and running in five minutes after it has been downloaded – use the included template and it is ready to go right away. Below you will find the most important innovations.

from: http://typo3.org/download/release-notes/typo3-44/

Last night i checked my own “starterpackage” with the new version. Everything seems to be fine.

The new Backend looks great, loads fast and is really easy to use.

Thanks to the Core-team of TYPO3! Great work, guys!

UPGRADING from 4.3 to 4.4:

Here you’ll finde some nice tricks and tutorials …

• http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Upgrade#Upgrading_to_4.4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE2tFVtm5Is
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ksV41wfJIo

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Today i had some trouble after upgrading TYPO3 Installation 4.2.10 to 4.3.3 .
After the big security announcement i decided to update all costumers TYPO3 Installations.

With my short step-by-step upgrade sheet everything works fine, only one …

After Uploading the files the TYPO3 Install-Tool appears with basic black/white stylesheet, no images, no alignement … *strange*
The Backend doesn’t show any image, the menu couldn’t get clicked – aahhhhrgh! Whats up?!

But here’s my solution: SEARCH, READ, UNDERSTAND, ADJUST

I found some hints in the install.txt from TYPO3 source:

Make sure that AllowOverride allows “Indexes” and “FileInfo” in the Apache
configuration. If you cannot ensure this, rename .htaccess files to
_.htaccess. TYPO3 will run but considerably slower.
Here is the list of the files to rename:
typo3/contrib/.htaccess
typo3/gfx/.htaccess
typo3/mod/user/ws/.htaccess
typo3/sysext/.htaccess
typo3/sysext/t3skin/stylesheets/.htaccess
If the error does not disappear, web server error logs should help.

That’s all. First i tested mith renaming the .htaccess to _.htaccess, in the second step i adjust the apache-config manually -> tataaaam, it works fine!

So have fun with TYPO3.

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Since TYPO3 Version 4.3 all the source code is tagged with unlovely id and class tags with div-wrapper.

<div id="c1" class="csc-default">

But with one little typoscript snippet you will get rid off it:

tt_content.stdWrap.innerWrap >

Now everything looks clean and sweet. I love TYPO3 anyway!

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I show you a nice jQuery snippet for a smoothy slider menu.

This was my first jQuery experience – if you find some tuning options, tell me please!

Here you can see my script in Action: http://www.gyn-endoskopie.de/

/**
 * @author team noir GbR
 * simple slide-out Menu
 * www.gyn-endoskopie.de
 * Version 1.5 - 11.01.2010
 */
$(document).ready(function() {
 //on first loading, hide the submenu
 $(".subul li").hide();
 //show active sub element, after paging
 $(".active").parent().parent(".subul").css('margin-top', -4).children("li").show(".subul li");

 //Actionhandling
 //click on menu
 $(".slide").click(function(){

 //only one submenu is allowed to show
 $(".angeklickt li").slideUp("fast");
 $(".angeklickt").removeClass("angeklickt");
 //close other open submenus
 $(".active").parent().parent(".subul").children("li").slideUp(".subul li");

 //mark heading ul
 $(this).next("ul").addClass('angeklickt');

 //show marked submenu
 if ($(".angeklickt li").is(":hidden")) {
 $(".angeklickt li").slideDown("slow");
 $("ul.angeklickt").css('margin-top', -4);
 return false;
 }
 //close/slide submenu
 else {
 $(".angeklickt li").slideUp("slow");
 $("ul.angeklickt").css('margin-top', 0);
 $(this).next("ul").removeClass("angeklickt");
 return false;
 }
 });

});

this is the menu source code:

<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Startseite</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Zur Person</a></li>
<li><a href="#l">Operationen</a>
 <ul class="subul>
   <li><a href="#" title="Operationsspektrum">Operationsspektrum</a></li>
   <li><a href="#" title="OP-Aufklärung">OP-Aufklärung</a></li>
   <li><a href="#" title="OP-Patienteninfos">OP-Patienteninfos</a></li>
   <li><a href="#" title="Anmeldung">Anmeldung</a></li>
 <li><a href="#" title="Novasure/Goldnetz">Novasure/Goldnetz</a></li>
 </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" title="Tagesklinik">Tagesklinik</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Kontakt</a>
 <ul class="subul>
   <li><a href="#" title="Schreiben Sie uns">Schreiben Sie uns</a></li>
   <li><a href="#" title="Anfahrt mit dem Auto">Anfahrt mit dem Auto</a></li>
   <li><a href="#" title="Wegbeschreibung">Wegbeschreibung</a></li>
 </ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

System information:

• TYPO3 4 CMS
• YAML 3.1
• CSS 2/3
• XHTML 1.0
• http://www.gyn-endoskopie.de/

greetz!

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Today the TYPO3 Association released the newest version of their outstandingly successful Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.1 million times – making it one of the world’s leading Enterprise Open Source projects.
(from http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-version-43-released/)

The first impressions are really great – i am looking forward to test and discover all the new features!

TYPO3 ROCK’s

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If you want to change the the alt-text, the title attribute, link image or something else you have to use some code-snippets in your TSconfig at Rootpage.

With the following lines you will be able to choose text and type.

RTE.classesAnchor {
 internalLink {
 class = internal-link
 type = page
 altText >
 titleText >
 image >
 }
 externalLink {
 class = external-link
 type = url
 altText >
 titleText >
 image >
 }
 externalLinkInNewWindow {
 class = external-link-new-window
 type = url
 altText >
 titleText >
 image >
 }
 internalLinkInNewWindow {
 class = internal-link-new-window
 type = page
 image >
 }
 download {
 class = download
 type = file
 altText = Datei runterladen
 titleText = Datei runterladen
 image >
 }
 mail {
 class = mail
 type = mail
 altText = öffnet Ihr Mailprogramm zum verschicken einer Nachricht
 titleText = öffnet Ihr Mailprogramm zum verschicken einer Nachricht
 image >
 }
}

For delete any automatic link title, use:

titleText >

for using a standard link title, use:

titleText = Datei runterladen

greetz, Martin

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Today i found a secret in TYPO3

I needed to  declare access for Backendeditors to upload files in the fileadmin/ folder.
Look at the picture … there is nothing more to do, just type a “.”

The first “setup” provides full access to fileadmin/
On the second picture you see how to declare just one subfolder in fileadmin/

EASY – isn’t it?

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