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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

I needed an image in the RTE to support the ‘click and enlarge’ option in tt_news. Now, I used Google to find a solution but no luck, although it seems I’m not the only one trying to make this work. Looks like this isn’t as easy as it would sound.. Read more for the solution!

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! [...]

In this post I’ll show you 5 things about tt_news which might be nice to know about tt_news. We discuss a better pagebrowser, loading tt_news without cache and making images perfectly square by generating them automatically.