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This site is a technical blog about TYPO3 content management system (more). Latest articles are below for your convenience. Clicking on the title will show you the full article. Thank you for coming!

Here is a small tip that can be useful for developers. Before you apply a patch, it is worth using --dry-run switch to see if it applies properly. However typing this switch all the time is not the best time spending. Fix it by...


Subheader is one of the intersting fields in timtab (tt_news). Sometimes it happens that teaser text (abbreviated part of the news) does not look good on the screen. For example, when I wrote a post about keywords, teaser text looked like:

I wanted to add keywords META tag for a long time to this site. While it does not change page rank, it is still good to have. So I took a look to tt_news code and added the following to my main TS setup:page.headerData...

As you see, part of TypoScript went...


If you use Zend toolbar for FireFox together with Zend Studio, there is one thing that you may want to know.

If you enable proxy in browser settings, toolbar may fail to connect to Zend Studio. The reason for this is that Zend toolbar uses XHHTPRequest to issue GET request to Zend Studio to obtain configuration parameters. Normally Zend Studio returns something like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type:...


I wanted to add keywords META tag for a long time to this site. While it does not change page rank, it is still good to have. So I took a look to tt_news code and...


I spent quite a lot of time trying to understand why my server prevents pages from certain sites to be cached on the client side. Here is what I got in HTTP headers:

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0Pragma: no-cache

After investigating I found that it happens if I use session_start() function in my USER_INT object. Looking to documentation for this function I found that PHP may send such headers if session.cache_limiter parameter in php.ini is set...


Here is a nice tool to minitor your server load. It is written in PHP and displays load statistics for the whole day and you can select any day you have logs for. It looks like...


I like playing with TypoScript. It is wonderful when unusual task is solved after some time of searching and thinking. It is like drawing a picture: need to have sense of art.

In this article I want to draw your attention to this post in mailing lists by Tomas Mrozek. Summary of the problem: there is a parameter in the URL that is UID of a record in a custom table. This table has a field that contains UID of page. Content should come from that page. Solution was to construct TypoScript that...


Did you know how to unmap element in TemplaVoila?


Do you know how to make a line break in RTE? Not a new paragraph but a line break?


When you create links in TYPO3, it is a good idea to give them a title.