TYPO3-Addict is your TYPO3 Blog. Bringing you tips and tricks for developing websites with TYPO3. Here you'll find TypoScript snippets, TSConfig and configuration options for your own TYPO3 website.

As of today I’m an official ‘TYPO3 Integrator’ :)

I took the Integrator Exam a couple of weeks ago in Brussels, Belgium at the FOSDEM conference. The english e-book version of the original TYPO3 Integrator Exam book (Patrick Lobacher) was a real help. Not only does it help you to prepare for your exam, but the clear and complete answers are also a good way to learn TypoScript by examples. I recommend this book for everyone who works with TypoScript, weather you take the exam or not.

By default, TYPO3 has five default header layouts from which to choose. Each correspond to the H1 to H5 tags. With this TypoScript snippet you can adjust one of them and set it to your own needs. For example a header with a date attached to it. This way you can make a header like: Latest news of {date}. Or what about: Welcome back {username}?

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Graphical headers can be just that little extra thing your design needs. Luckily TYPO3 can manage this pretty well using the GIFBUILDER. But what if you have a long headertext? What if you need the headertext to display over more than just one line?

GIFBUILDER can’t actually read your headertext so there’s no way it can determine when to use multiple lines by itself (at least, not without making weird cuts in the middle of your words). Therefore, we need to tell GIFBUILDER when to break the line.

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A TypoScript condition is a powerful and easy way of telling TYPO3 when to execute a piece of TypoScript. In this tutorial I’ll explain the basics of such a condition and how to use one. Conditions are very similar to a PHP if-statement and should be easy to use if you understand the principles of PHP if, elseif and else.

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Translating pages can be a real pain. Personally I think the worst thing is the amount of clicks in takes when you need to translate a whole pagetree! Translating 10 pages can take up to 45 clicks through the List module! Can’t this be easier? Yes it can! TYPO3 by default comes with a Localization Overview module and can help to reduce the amount of clicks from 45 (or even more with more pages) to about 7!

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No article or TypoScript this time, but a screenshot preview of the new tt_news 3.0 which will hopefully be out soon! There are some visual changes but I believe most of the improvements are ‘under the hood’. It’s obvious this trunk version is far from ready but it’s good to know there is still progress! Want to see for yourself? Check out the .t3x file at the bottom of the post! Read more…