TYPO3, Ubuntu, Open Source

How to cleanup outdated TYPO3 development projects

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:22:57 +0200

During development of different TYPO3 projects I've forgotten to clean up the development directory regularly. So, after a while I even forgot which TYPO3 version was used by each project. To see the target of the source symlink the find command is very useful. The following gist snippet is a reminder to myself and maybe it's even useful for you!

Multi language/domain setup with RealURL - revised

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:50:10 +0200

The development of RealURL has made great progress and after the latest comment on an older article I decided to review the setup of a multilingual site with TYPO3.

The setup must meet two major objectives: language switching by domain, a proper language switching menu with properly encoded page paths.

Note, that this setup follows a very basic approach which don't include any configuration for extensions or special requirements.

TYPO3 multi language & multi domain site with RealURL and language menu

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:16:24 +0200

This is a step-by-step tutorial which describes in detail how to setup TYPO3 for a multilingual website with "domain language switching". It will describe how to properly configure RealURL, extend it's configuration with simple PHP statements in the RealURL configuration file and last but not least, probably the most important thing: the language switch menu with cross domain support.

I started with a clean TYPO3 installation and created two page trees in order to test the setup in a multiple page tree setup. Therefore I defined that on my local Linux box typo3-ml.local listens to the default language, while typo3-ml-en.local and typo3-ml-it.local - you guessed it - listens to the english and italian language versions of the page tree.

Note: This article is deprecated. Please see the latest comments. I'll post a follow-up as soon as possible!

How to enable custom tags in TYPO3 RTE

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:46:28 +0100

I think it's time for a new article and I done this research a long time ago. It's very tricky to enable custom tags for your TYPO3 instance because you have to do some magic things in the page TSconfig and also via TypoScript. I've done this because I saw a need for it in a clients old website where someone enables the RTE image plugin which allows to insert some star graphics for the hotel's category. Because I thought that enabling the image plugin for the RTE is a bad idea I've done a little research and try-and-error how to achieve this with mighty mighty TypoScript'ing.

Quick note about adding TYPO3 extension as a library

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:38:24 +0200

During developing a little TYPO3 extension currently I chose the option "Just include library" in the extension kickstarter. During development all went fine but after intergrating the extension on the production site, I couldn't get it up and running. This short note about a failure which can cause many minutes of debugging should help you and me in the future to not forget to include the necessary TypoScript setup to make that thing work.

Dark CSS theme for TYPO3 extension syntaxhighlight

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:22:02 +0100

I was very impatient of the default CSS styles which comes shipped with the syntax highlight extension tx_syntaxhighlight. There is already a console style but I felt uncomfortable with it. So I searched the web for some dark GeSHi styles and stumbled upon the Geshi CSS Pack created by Mark Story. I took it as a base and mixed in some colors I was used to see in the symfony project documentation.

Yahoo Pipes: Twitter Map Search

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:49:08 +0100

*Sigh* My plans to write a new extension for TYPO3 end in smoke after I fiddled around with the great Yahoo! Pipes application. I found a nice looking Pipe but it's lacking some input fields for the current position and the radius for the search. Maybe I'll clone this pipe and add these attributes as optional ones. Enjoy playing around with this cool thingy.

van-tomas.de 2010 Relaunch

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:21:46 +0100

I've updated my website with a new layout and some new features. Currently, some parts don't play well at Internet Explorer but it's rather difficult to test things on a Linux machine because of missing support for M$ products. The other thing that changed is the language: for the future I'd like to prefer to post my articles in english. I hope to reach a broader audience. In the following article you'll find a - pretty technical - overview about the updates that happened to this site.

TYPO3: indexed_search and crawler notes

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:13:59 +0100

Notes for setting up TYPO3 extensions indexed_search and crawler.

tt_news: more meaningful "read more" link text

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:13:59 +0100

Because of search engine optimization relevant issues it's always better to build speaking link texts. With this TypoScript setup you're able to extend the search engine "unfriendly" "read more" link text.