Another place is the bugtracker. There is a documentation section in mantis, where tough users could have reported items about missing documentation.

Last but not least, you could RTFML, especially the core list. Use the search function of support.typo3.org for a full bodytext search. Although "we cannot expect from our users to read the Core list to learn about new features" (Masi, 2008/08/04), it however seems to be the price one has to pay for living on the bleeding edge.

• Use TYPO3 Version 4.2 (because HMENU does not use typolink in >=4.1)
• use RealURL Version >=1.4.0
• setup TypoScript of all rootpage templates (the first three items of course can be merged into a global template):



config {
   simulateStaticDocuments = 0
   tx_realurl_enable = 1
   # render internal links between domains
   typolinkCheckRootline = 1 
   baseURL = http://mydomain.com/
}

• set domain record in every rootpage
• set the rootlevel flag in the rootpage templates
• set the "Is root of website" flag in the rootpage properties. This is essential for nested domains.
• set the rootpage_id for every domain in the RealURL configuration part in typo3conf/localconf.php:



 $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXTCONF']['realurl'] = array(
   'www.foo.com' => array(
     'pagePath' => array(
       'rootpage_id' = 1234
   ...
   ),
   'www.bar.com' => array (
     'pagePath' => array(
       'rootpage_id' = 5678
   ...
   ),
 

However, you could still run into problems. Keep your eyes open for recent patches in the TYPO3-core list and related bugs.

• The user interface looks intuitive and familiar with its three columns layout.
• The clear use of colors gives you a quick overview about important actions.
• Most important: I was able to recover the "do it, defer it, delegate it" pradigm at once.

The next days I'll try to find out how good it really fits my needs...

The bookmarks are encoded as JSON and stored as a single file. Fortunately, Stefan Macke (german!) now provides a PHP script to convert JSON to HTML to display your bookmarks on a website. Thank you, Stefan!

So if you run into trouble with Ubuntu 8.04, download the patch to your typo3_src directory and patch your sources:

patch  -p0 < 0006158_v2.patch

When in Insert mode, type the beginning of a PHP function, for example

array_s

Then hit <Control-X> <Control-O> and vim will show you all possible functions in a drop down menu. Just choose the one you were looking for and hit enter

array_search( 
array_search( f
array_shift(  f
array_slice(  f
array_splice( f
array_sum( f

Find out more about vim secrets: www.vim.org/tips/tip.php

A prominent example is config.linkVars. In most cases, it's used to append the global language parameter L to typolinks:

config.linkVars = L

However, if you need to append another value to that property using a basis template or an extension template, you can do this with := addToList():

config.linkVars := addToList(print)

Parsing both properties will have the same result as:

config.linkVars = L, print

List of functions

It's so easy, isn't it? Mind the := operator as a placeholder for the parser to process the function. The "TypoScript Syntax and In-depth Study" docs reveal the following list of functions which can be used here. There's even a hook to use your own functions.

prependString()

... adds a string before the existing one.

appendString()

... adds a string after the existing one.

removeString()

... removes a string from the existing one. str_replace() is used here.

replaceString()

... replaces an existing string with a new one. str_replace() is used here,with the pipe symbol | as a divider.

addToList()

... appends values to a comma separated list. The list will neither be sorted nor distinct. Multiple values are given as a comma separated list.

removeFromList()

... removes values from a comma separated list. Multiple values are given as a comma separated list.

Today, I had enough and tried to find out, what 43 stands for. Finaly, the source code documentation led the cat out of the bag: 43 is the uid of the static template 'content.default' and the function name means: Add PlugIn to Static Template #43. Now don't worry if you use css_styled_content instead of static templates: The docs promise it will work anyway.

HTML

<body id="papers">
...
<ul id="navMenu">
  <li class="blog">My blog</li>
  <li class="papers">My papers</li>
  <li class="books>My books</li>
  <li class="contact">Contact</li>
</ul>

CSS

#blog #navMenu .blog a,
#papers #navMenu .papers a,
#books #navMenu .books a,
#contact #navMenu .contact a, {
  color: red;
}

The first time I realizied those million ways to apply styles to links, was some years ago, when Wikipedia started to explicitly tag external links with png icons. Last week I found some time to dig into CSS and attribute selectors and the stuff I saw was amazing. Not only we can style one and the same HTML element with different ids or classes, but also by choosing any other attribute or part of it. On a small scale, a kind of Regex is allowed to differentiate cases more precisely:

HTML

<a href="http://www.domain.net">An external link</a>

CSS

a[href^="http:"] { background: url(ext.png) no-repeat right; }

This will add a little icon on the right side of the link. The attribute selectors [href^=value] limits the style to links starting with http:. If your browser supports CSS2, you can see the effect. Now have a look at the next example:

HTML

<a href="http://document.pdf">my Thesis</a>

CSS

a[href$=".pdf"] { background: url(pdf.png) no-repeat right; }

This will highlight links to pdf documents. The attribute selectors [href$=value] limits the style to links ending with .pdf. And here comes the example.

Now, that IE7 is going to replace its ugly ancestor, attribute selectors are also supported by the MS empire. The next step seems to be microformats, which mainly use attributes to semantically markup web content.

The solution to get some more readable output is so easy: Terminate your query with \G instead of ; or \g

• pdfinfo binary (gzipped, version 3.02)
• Xpdf sources as tar.gz archive (version 3.02)
• pdfinfo.cc source file, modificated by zotero dev, see Zotero svn

[UPDATE 2007/10/11]

The bug is already fixed and new binaries are provided. Nevertheless, if you still run into the described problems, it might be because the old file still exists in the Firefox cache. Clear the cache or alternatively get the file from:
www.zotero.org/download/xpdf/pdfinfo-Linux-i686-3.02

• Zotero comes as a Firefox extension. I like the idea, because the browser is my favorite tool for almost any research.
• It also ships an Openoffice package, to integrate the references into my favorite word processor.
• It's open source software.
• There's an active community.

Zotero does not only collect research sources on a meta level (author, title, year, ...) but also archives and indexes full text items (e.g. HTML, PDF). Tags and relations make it easy to structure and categorize items.

The installation is really easy and the documentation helps you to understand things within a short time. Give it a try.

Luc seems to like charts, since we already have some postfix statistics of the TYPO3 listserver and some numbers about list membership.

Fortunately, Andrew McMillan provides a fresh eAccelerator package for Etch. There have been some questions on the TYPO3-Debian mailing list about installing third party packages on Debian Linux. To clearify things, here comes a quick installation guide.

You need to import Andrews public key, because Etch now comes with signed packages and apt-get could complain about unverified signatures of 3rd party software.

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 8F068012
gpg --armor --export 8F068012  | apt-key add -

Ok. Now add the repository to your apt sources.

echo 'deb debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm' \
>> /etc/apt/sources.list

Update your list of packages and install the eAccelerator module.

aptitude update 
aptitude install php5-eaccelerator 

You need to activate the module in /etc/php5/{cgi|apache|apache2}/conf.d/eaccelerator.ini by uncommenting the last line:

extension=eaccelerator.so 

If you use PHP5 via FastCGI/fcgid and Apache2 worker, it is recommended to use eAccelerator as an extension of the Zend engine. Replace the above line with:

zend_extension="/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/eaccelerator.so" 

Finally, reload Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload 

Use phpinfo() to check if eAccelerator is activated. Note that php-cli is not supported by eAccelerator.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

The forum is shipped with a build-in crawler and search engine, optimized for searching forum postings - a wise decision, since indexed_search is almost infamous for causing heavy load and timeouts in large scale environments.

A first look at the database tables reveals the use of indexes for some columns/tables. Indexes can speed up SELECT statements but are yet rarely implemented in any extension. Anyway, thanks to the efforts of core-dev Dmitry Dulepov, they are meanwhile common in core and sysext tables.

The extension is available via extension repository or directly via typo3.org.

Statistics for nonspam.cfc:
-----------------------------------------------
Database version:                    OSBF-Bayes
Total buckets in database:                94321
Buckets used (%):                           9.0
Bucket size (bytes):                         12
Header size (bytes):                       4092
Number of chains:                          7444
Max chain len (buckets):                      5
Average chain length (buckets):             1.1
Max bucket displacement:                      3
Buckets unreachable:                          0
Trainings:                                    9
Classifications:                             88
Learned mistakes:                             7
Extra learnings:                              0
Ham accuracy (%):                         92.47
-----------------------------------------------

Statistics for spam.cfc:
-----------------------------------------------
Database version:                    OSBF-Bayes
Total buckets in database:                94321
Buckets used (%):                          62.6
Bucket size (bytes):                         12
Header size (bytes):                       4092
Number of chains:                         16430
Max chain len (buckets):                     60
Average chain length (buckets):             3.6
Max bucket displacement:                     29
Buckets unreachable:                          0
Trainings:                                   42
Classifications:                            134
Learned mistakes:                             2
Extra learnings:                              1
Spam accuracy (%):                        98.45
-----------------------------------------------
Spam rate (%):                            58.11
Global accuracy (%):                      95.95
-----------------------------------------------

Now it's up to Micr0s0ft, to fix their IE bugs for proper presentation of this page ;-)