TYPO3 breaks on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron
After a dist-upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy on our webserver, TYPO3 was suddenly broken. The reason is a bug in PHP 5.2.4. There is a workaround for TYPO3, but unfortunately the patch is still pending in the core list.
vi(m) rulez!
I don't like those bloatware IDEs like Eclipse etc. It's just too oversized for most of my projects. My favorite tool for writing code is vim (Vi iMproved). And it comes with so many neat features, like code completion, for example.
Change Typoscript values at parsetime
Typoscript properties in the CONFIG section are usually defined once and at a certain point. But what if you have defined the value of a property at some place and like to add another one later in the parsing process?
addPItoST43?
TYPO3 sometimes drives me nuts. It happens that I come across cryptic function or property names, using them over and over again without having a clue, what its name stands for. t3lib_extMgm::addPItoST43() is one of them, although it is part of almost a billion TYPO3 extensions...
Simulating conditions with pure HTML/CSS
There are many ways to assign extra styles to the menu item of the active page. TYPO3 for example provides ACT in Typoscript to do so. But did you know that this can be solved with pure HTML/CSS?