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.

RSS-feeds of tt_news are really simple. To make it even more easy just copy-paste this to your TypoScript setup:

plugin.tt_news {
# SYS-Folder with newsitems
pid_list =
# Page with single view
singlePid =
displayXML {
  xmlTitle = Your RSS title
  xmlLink = Your website url
  xmlDesc = Your RSS description
  subheader_stdWrap.crop = 250 | ... | 1
  }
}

Now just go to your homepage and add &type=100 to the url! You’re done

There are a few more options, but above are the most important. See the tt_news manual for a complete reference!

With this line of User TSConfig you can enable non-be-admin’s to clear all cache the way an admin would.

options.clearCache.all = 1

Sometimes you walk into things you should have known by now… This week I was setting up a tt_news configuration, which I have done like a million times, and found this code:

plugin.tt_news {
usePiBasePagebrowser = 0
}

Now, just out of curiosity I set it to 1, just to see what happened… What do you know… way better than the default pagebrowser! It really makes me wonder why these things aren’t active by default?

Anyway, most of you probably already knew this, and if you didn’t like me, you should have ;)

By the way: If any of you programmers are bored and want to write something really useful.. write a Ajax-based pagebrowser!

TYPO3 produces a lot of comments, prefixes, metatags etcetra… You might want to clean your HTML source code when your website is complete. In order to do this you need TypoScript!
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If you have a image in your latest of list view sometimes you just don’t have a appropriate picture, but no picture would distroy your nice design. tt_news can automatically insert a generated image, using GIFBUILDER.

This TypoScript snippet is a latest view, but list is also posible.

Adjust the output by reading this.

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I found a really useful post for speeding up Firefox 3 on Mac. Seems to work, especially with starting up.

http://www.tonyspencer.com/2005/02/25/speed-up-firefox-with-these-tweaks/