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.

Personally I hate it when TYPO3 hides my new copied record. TYPO3 also prepends your new copied record with something like ‘copy (1)’. To avoid this you can put this code in your PageTSConfig:

TCEMAIN.table.pages {
  disablePrependAtCopy = 1
  disableHideAtCopy = 1
}

TCEMAIN.table.tt_content {
  disablePrependAtCopy = 1
  disableHideAtCopy = 1
}

In most cases I don’t use some tt_content fields, so it would be nice to don’t see them at all. Also for other backend users less is more (easy).  So let’s clean them up!

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Sometimes you need to make the TYPO3 BE as clean and empty as posible for other (read: less techical) users. In that case it can be usefull to remove non-used content columns. Here how to:

Copy Paste this in your Page TSConfig

TCEFORM.tt_content.colPos {
  altLabels {
     1 = Left
     0 = Normal
     2 = Right
     3 = Border
  }
  #Remove Right & Border
  removeItems = 2,3
}

Surfing around the (TYPO3) web I found a post which should help you speed up your backend. All you have to do is enable some ‘hidden’ _.htacess files. I have no real proof it will work, but I think it does.

Just enable them, you can always restore it..

/_.htaccess
typo3/gfx/_.htaccess
typo3/mod/user/ws/_.htaccess
typo3/sysext/_.htaccess
typo3/sysext/t3skin/stylesheets/_.htaccess

To reduce spam people have found numerous ways to place their email address on a website. TYPO3 can encrypt your emailadresses by default though. Just put the following lines in your Typoscript Setup:

config.spamProtectEmailAddresses = 2
config.spamProtectEmailAddresses_atSubst = (at)

Now all @ will be replaced by (at) and the link will be encrypted.

Sometimes you want a record to be placed on every page and still to be in the TYPO3 backend as a dynamic record. Like a flash header plugin for example. Of course you can do this by placing the record on every page but that wouldn’t be very handy. Luckily it can be done a lot easier by Typoscript.
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