http://www.typo3tricks.com Today: "Irony" -- Why Use Wordpress For a TYPO3-related blog? Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:38:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Long time no see... yes, business is keeping me away from all the fun stuff. I'm currently working on cleaning up and then extending mm_forum, and of course the TYPO3 core.  Last week, I visited Jeff in Dallas and we had a good run digging into some serious XML issues ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/dam-hiding-fields-through-tsconfig/ I more and more enjoy the power of TypoScript. Every day, I learn something new. I will Tip 1: You want to link to the same page, but with JS params etc, lib.mytext = TEXT lib.mytext.value = This is a link lib.mytext.typolink.parameter = {TSFE:id},775 500x600 selflink lib.mytext.typolink.parameter.insertData = 1 I had to use this idea when ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/typolink-tiny-helpers-to-save-the-day-1/ My latest thing to do is switching my TYPO3 installations from baseURL to absRefPrefix. Ever since this awesome extension realURL was written, there was the need to define the URLs that should be relative to the TYPO3 main directory. Imagine having a TYPO3 installation running under a domain called www.b13.de. ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/when-switching-from-baseurl-to-absrefprefix/ If you have to customize a TYPO3 installation for your editors, and you use tt_news, you maybe have had the problem. Your editor gives you a call and let's you know that he can't see his just finished news in the frontend. You find out that the record is not ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/require-to-select-a-category-for-tt_news/ In almost every TYPO3 project of mine, I use this awesomely generic tt_news for displaying news, top offers, etc. In many projects I also have a headline or a breadcrums menu somewhere, telling about the title of the page. tt_news itself offers the possibility to substitute the page title in ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/typoscript-magic-tt_news-title-in-headline-or-menu-or-somewhere/ Ever since the t3skin arrived, there was this nasty thing that bugged me so much: Some tabs in the TYPO3 Backend weren't styled at all, and they still had the colors of the classic TYPO3 skin. As of the nature of TYPO3, an installed skin just overrides the classic skin styles ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-t3skin/ 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 ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/evolution-of-my-footer-code-part-1/ 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 ... http://www.typo3tricks.com/todays-trick-override-ll-file-labels-for-a-whole-installation/