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.

This makes sure tt_news never displays duplicate news items on the same page. Put this is your typoscript setup: plugin.tt_news { excludeAlreadyDisplayedNews = 1 } This can be usefull when you have multiple news plugins on one page, like latest and list.

Here’s a snippet for a nice language menu… temp.languagemenu = COA temp.languagemenu.wrap = <div id=”language”> | </div> temp.languagemenu.10 = HMENU temp.languagemenu.10 { special=language special.value = 0,1,2,3 1 = TMENU 1 { wrap = <ul>|</ul> NO = 1 NO { stdWrap.cObject = TEXT stdWrap.cObject { value = Default Language (id=0) || Language with id=1 || Language [...]

Some while ago I needed to make a GMENU with a different image for each menu item. This was tricky since normally I used CSS to include the image before or behind the menu. After a lot of thinking I realised TYPO3 had a BE field (even a tab!) I had never used; Page properties [...]

To reduce spam people have found numerous ways to place their email address on a website. TYPO3 can encrypt your emailadresses by default though. Just put the following lines in your Typoscript Setup: config.spamProtectEmailAddresses = 2 config.spamProtectEmailAddresses_atSubst = (at) Now all @ will be replaced by (at) and the link will be encrypted.

Sometimes you want a record to be placed on every page and still to be in the TYPO3 backend as a dynamic record. Like a flash header plugin for example. Of course you can do this by placing the record on every page but that wouldn’t be very handy. Luckily it can be done a [...]

This is probably the most simple way to add a dynamic menu to your TYPO3 website. Just put the code into the Typoscript setup and parse temp.menu through the autoparser. temp.menu = HMENU temp.menu.1 = TMENU temp.menu.1 { NO.ATagBeforeWrap = 1 } Now you have a menu with nothing more than just an anchor tag.