"Save and view" button for records of TYPO3 extensions
When editing a page in the TYPO3 backend, there's a whole bunch of save buttons available. The "save document and view page" button allows to save the content and open a preview popup with one click. Unfortunately this does only work for regular pages and content elements, but not for database records of extensions which are stored inside sysfolders. The following tutorial describes a way to get that button also running for those records.
Dynamic forms and types with TYPO3 FlexForms
The most accessible way to configure a plugin in TYPO3 is using a custom content element build with FlexForms. It provides forms of all kinds for any BE user. FlexForms adapt most of the features of the TCA, but unfortunately the documentation on FlexForms is rather poor. The following article tries to demonstrate the configuration of a TYPO3 FlexForm in order to get some forms which dynamically change their fields on user interaction.
Conditions and dynamic values in TCA fields of TYPO3
TYPO3 backend and TCA simetimes appear a bit old school. Fields and values are less flexible like you are used to in recent AJAX applications. How to make them more flexible without heavy JS frameworks like ExtJS?
FLOW3 first alpha version released
Robert Lemke just announced that the first public alpha version of FLOW3 has been released. A reason to celebrate!
Tiny introduction to heatmaps
Heatmaps can be used for website usage analysis. They appear to be very easy to read and comfortable to understand. But in fact it's not that easy to assure a proper environment and to get reliable results.
Writing a basic Fluid ViewHelper for TYPO3
After listening to Sebastians talk at T3DD09 today about the new templating engine Fluid, I felt inspired to give it a try. I am really surprised how easy it is to extend Fluid by writing an own ViewHelper. Read on to learn how to get started. [Update 2009/12/23: now using 4.3 stable API]
Extbase presentation at T3DD09
The TYPO3 Developer Days have started yesterday. Today, the first talk is about Extbase by Jochen Rau and Sebastian Kurfürst. Extbase is meant to be a transition path from TYPO3 version 4 to FLOW3.
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About Steffen Müller
Since 2002, I am a user and developer of the TYPO3 content management system. I understand content management as an interdisciplinary task under the terms of a knowledge society. This task combines technical, economical and social aspects as well as profund analysis, planning and implementation.
Therefore I do not focus on plain coding, but on various aspects like usability, accessibility, customizability or empirical analysis, following actual findings in communication science. I am also very interested in the subjects of knowledge communication in open source communities and knowledge management in general.
Since the very beginning I am a strong enthusiast and an active member of the TYPO3 community. I have been a member of the official TYPO3 security team from 2004-2008. Since May, 2009 I am a TYPO3 TRYDIVER ;-).
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