If you are re-visiting, you may have noticed. I've updated my blog! I've did quite some design, as well as technical changes. And I'm also planning to actually start writing some nice new articles for you guys (and perhaps gals).

Ever wondered how to create nice warnings, errors and notices in your own TYPO3 back-end modules and extensions? The way TYPO3 itself does this?

I'm working currently on a project, where I wanted to display a nice notice above the form when editing a content record. Now I could have done some hooking and marker overwriting.. but why not just use something that already exists? :-) If you have used 4.3.x already you've probably seen something similar around.

I will use an example extension that I have created prior to writing this article. It's allows you to clear RealURL's cache quickly, through the "Clear cache" menu. Which might be useful for testing or reconfiguring.

A while back we a colleague of mine discover this sweet extension in the TER, after experimenting with it a little we discovered that it was actually quite cool and very useful! Basically, it allows you to reset and rearrange any TCA settings with TypoScript through Page TSconfig.

In my daily line of work I develop TYPO3 websites. Creating a website usually involves grabbing something from the TER, now because some customers have very... let's say 'exclusive' wishes ;-) what we find is not always what we really need. Most of the times we have some overkill features, or worse.. missing features.

TypoScript can be so useful sometimes! In this example I will display how we can create a nice output of any record in the front-end. And all this without the use of any silly extension.

In my opinion, TYPO3 does not generate very pretty HTML output by default. But with some tweaking we can still make something nice out of it! Follow the steps to make your TYPO3 website(s) output clean code.

If you're not aware of the capabilities of TypoScript, you would start looking in the repository for something usable. I immedeatly remember using something simular for getting a content element from a different page, and displaying it. Combining this with a COA_INT, to prevent caching of the element, I was able to do this in under 5 minutes with only 15 lines of TypoScript code (including marker assignment).

The idea for the project was to generate an alphabetical list of products for a tt_products webshop. To make the process list the right products I extended the search a little with a new functionality. However this was not really the challenge! The challenge came with writing the navigation for this. I wanted to do this entirely with TypoScript. And I (we, got a little help from Pim Broens ;-)) did it!

Imagine all the time you will put into trying to reverse engineer what the DBAL wrapper function you use is trying to generate, when we could just print ANY query that was generated with ANY one of the DBAL wrappers!