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.

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/

When trying to embed a video in tt_news I sadly came to the conclusion this was in no way posible. There are a few extension to embed YouTube video in tt_news but since my video was from another website I was out of luck.

I wrote an extension to insert raw HTML into a tt_news record. Just install the extension and place the ###HTMLCODE### marker into your tt_news template. Should work fine ;)
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A simple way to let FE-users download your content as a PDF file:

First install the extension: PDF Generator (html2fpdf) nc_pdfgen

Now add a download link at the bottom of the content:

subparts.your_content_id = COA
subparts.your_content_id {
   10 < styles.content.get
   20 < temp.PDF
}

Setup the downloadlink using the extension:

temp.PDF = COA
temp.PDF {
   10 = USER_INT
   10.userFunc = tx_ncpdfgen->openPdfLink
   20 = TEXT
   20.value = Link to PDF
   30 = HTML
   30.value = </a>
}

Add the following lines to your htaccess configuration:

RewriteRule ^[^/]*.pdf$  index.php

I left my RealURL configuration untouched. Seems to work fine.

When I switched domainnames from blog.emaux.nl to www.typo3-addict.com. Using the 301 moved permanently http header you redirect visitors directly to your new url and tell Google to visit the new url in the future.

To use this 301 header just add the following to your htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# REDIRECT BEGIN
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog\.emaux\.nl [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.typo3-addict.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# REDIRECT END
</IfModule>

Some default records and extension records offer a ’save and create new’ button. Which is very usefull when making a lot of new records in a row. This line makes that button available for every kind of record:

## Always a save and create new button
options.saveDocNew = 1

Place this line in your TSConfig…