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TYPO3: Advanced GIFBUILDER use with tt_news

In the tutorial we’re going to make an automatic gifbuilder image, for a tt_news article. We’re going to use the news image from the tt_news record and overlay it with the title.

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TYPO3: Ajax login box with ods_ajaxfelogin

With the all new AJAX powered TYPO3 backend, the default frontend loginbox looks like old and slow technology… In this tutorial I will turn the default TYPO3 loginbox into an AJAX-powered loginbox with the extension ods_ajaxfelogin.

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TYPO3: RTE embed / iframe tag

According to Google Analytics a lot of people are currently looking for a way to use embed tags within the (tt_news) RTE. By default the TYPO3 RTE will remove these embed tags, but it’s fairly easy to change this. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to insert an iframe, within the TYPO3 RTE.

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TYPO3: Replace RTE content through TypoScript

Ever wanted to replace a single word throughout a whole TYPO3 website? Of even better: You know it will have to be changed in time? Like a year or a name? The solution is quite simple yet not seen as often as you might think. Most people know they can set a TypoScript constant to easily change a TypoScript setup value along the way, but your actual content is most of the time written in the RTE. With this little TypoScript snippet you can replace RTE content with something else.

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TYPO3: A basic HTML5 tutorial

Although TYPO3 is fully HTML5 capable, you need some TypoScript changes to make things work accordingly. The most obvious changes of HTML5 are the new doctype and the new HTML tags used in your template. So let’s see what we need to do to make things work the HTML5 way.

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TYPO3: 5000 extensions and counting!

Last Friday the TYPO3 extension repository hit 5000 extensions. Of course, it’s not quantity but quality which matters most, still I think this is a great leap for TYPO3. With such a variety of extensions there’s almost always a solution available and often right out-of-the-box.

To everyone who has published one of more useful extensions: Keep up the good work!