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.

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.

Read more…

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.

Read more…

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!

Read more…

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…

I’m getting a lot of traffic lately of people searching for a tutorial on 301 redirects, especially in combination with tt_news. Therefore I’m going to explain how to make such a redirect the easiest way. In this tutorial I’m assuming you already have a website up and running with RealURL installed and you want to setup a 301 redirect for a page or news record which no longer exist.

Read more…

The tt_news extension is the most popular extension of TYPO3. No wonder, since it’s very flexible and can be used for much more than just handling newsitems. In this post I’ll show you 5 things about tt_news which might be nice to know about tt_news.

1) A better pagebrowser

By default, the tt_news pagebrowser is not very nice. Nor can it be easily styled. Inside tt_news there’s a ‘hidden’ pagebrowser which is better, and much more flexible. To activate this better pagebrowser put the following into your template Setup section:
Read more…