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 | [...]

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 [...]

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!

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 { [...]

Yslow tells you to put your javascripts at the bottom of your pages. Normally when you include your JS files TYPO3 puts them in your head by default. To fix this you can easily: Old style: page.includeJS.file1 = file.js Solution: page.20 < lib.javascript lib.javascript = HTML lib.javascript.value = <script type=”text/javascript” src=”file.js”></script> Note: In this example [...]