Everybody started out very simple with TYPO3. In case of my projects, I had to update the copyright year, with all my clients of course. At first, I put everything static in my HTML template, so I had to change the year there. Then I put the static string in TypoScript. Nowadays I enjoy the power of TypoScript that automatically updates the year in the footer for me. This means less client calls at the beginning of the year more…

Today I found out something very nice.

I had the problem that I needed to redefine some labels for alanguage file in an extension. This was client-specific, so it wasn’t suitable for a patch to send to the corresponding extension developer. But I didn’t want to modify the extension files by myself, because in case of an upgrade, the changes would have been erased. So I stumbled upon this nice feature, which worked just fine for my TYPO3 4.0 installation. more…