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.

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!

As of today I’m an official ‘TYPO3 Integrator’ :) I took the Integrator Exam a couple of weeks ago in Brussels, Belgium at the FOSDEM conference. The english e-book version of the original TYPO3 Integrator Exam book (Patrick Lobacher) was a real help. Not only does it help you to prepare for your exam, but [...]

By default, TYPO3 has five default header layouts from which to choose. Each correspond to the H1 to H5 tags. With this TypoScript snippet you can adjust one of them and set it to your own needs. For example a header with a date attached to it. This way you can make a header like: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.