I expect to recieve Dmitry’s book the end of this week on how to build extensions for TYPO3. The API sometimes is a mess for me and I am convinced his writing will help me understand the core of TYPO3 better, and become more advanced in programming extensions.

Most of the time I have written some extensions for custom requirements of my customers.

You can get Dmitry’s book on Amazon. Click to image to bring you there right away!

I will get back on this as soon as I start reading – but I have no doubt it is a worthy investment.

dmitry, extension development, typo3

Basically what I do implementing a searchbox that needs to be an all pages, is using some plain typoscript to get this running well.

I used to use macina searchbox when I just started working with TYPO3, but getting more feeling with typoscript, I personally like using as less as extensions as possible.

So, how do I do it?

First of all, make sure you implement Indexed Search (setting up the indexing etc.). You really should read the documentation on that - although if you’re like me you’d like me post it here for you!

Second make sure you a subpart Marker (or when using TemplaVoila make sure you map the location to a typoscript object). Usually mine is named lib.searchbox.

Third thing you do is prepare some constants in your TS template:

plugin.tx_indexedsearch.searchUID = 2
plugin.tx_indexedsearch.showAdvanced = 0

The searchUID constant is the page containing your search results (your page with the indexed_search plugin on it).

In the setup you now use the following code to give you the searchbox.

all pages, indexed search, macina, search, typo3, typoscript, usability

Weel – it took a while to achieve this through all other work, but we finished it enough to have it launced: Stylence – for internet and TYPO3 development in style! There is a lot to improve. But you have to start in order to improve right?!

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I haven’t tried this one yet – but according to what they promiss it must be great.

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Ever needed to use a different class for a first element in a column? And a specific one for the middle elements and – making it the royal treat – one for the last element as well?

I have been wondering about this for a while – tested some stuff here and there and finally I came up with this solution. I hope it will be helpful to you in one of your projects as well!

tt_content.stdWrap.outerWrap = |<div style="display:none;"></div>
lib.contentBar = COA
lib.contentBar {
10 < styles.content.get
stdWrap.split {
token = <div style="display:none;"></div>
cObjNum = 1||2 |*| 3||4 |*| 5||6
1.current = 1
1.wrap = <div class="first">|</div>
2.current = 1
2.wrap = <div class="middle">|</div>
3.current = 1
3.wrap = <div class="middle">|</div>
4.current = 1
4.wrap = <div class="middle">|</div>
5.current = 1
5.wrap = <div class="last">|</div>
6.current = 1
}
}

Questions? Leave a reply!

Have a better solution? Leave a reply, please! I especially do not like the splitter part, because of the extra code. I used ###SPLITTER### at first, but that left me with a ###SPLITTER### marker on the pages I didn’t use the replacement…

There must be a better way – so please!

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So… maybe you are like me: you have a design done by somebody who makes it a hell of a job to get it working nicely in TYPO3. For a certain page you need to use every content element in one column to have a specific class that is unique.

Search no longer! Take the code and enjoy!

contentNormal < styles.content.get
contentNormal.renderObj.stdWrap.dataWrap = <div class="contentNormal-{cObj:parentRecordNumber}">|</div>

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I have been wondering a while on how to set headerimages in a nice way to Typo3 pages. After some searching and “workarounds”, this is where I have ended (for now… )

# Image from the page properties
temp.headerImage = IMAGE
temp.headerImage {
	file.import = uploads/media/
	file.import.data = levelmedia:-1, slide
	file.import.listNum=0
}

Read more in it here:

http://www.rggooglemap.com/en/dev/mpossnewsheader.html

http://www.mcuniverse.com/Changing-Section-Pictures.193.0.html

http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_tsbyex/0.0.16/view/6/2/

header, typo3, usability

Ever wondered why IE shows bigger headings than other browsers? If you are like me and walking your website releases the FF – Safari – IE7 – IE6 way, you’ll notice fontsizes are screwed up here and there. Of course you can write different stylesheets, what I did for a while. But recently I ran into this article that actually explains a good deal how to get stuff right, the nice way.

Enjoy reading!

css, firefox, font, font-sizes, html, ie

Today I played around a little with a ajax search engine extention for TYPO3. Kinda nice. See my results so far at Stylence.

It is the extention mh_ajaxsearch and you can find more on it (in german) at: www.marioonline.at

Needless to say – my german is improving (thank you Bernhard ).

Update: While checking at IE6 I found the javascript to be buggy. I had no time yet to dive into it…

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I have been asked today to get fonts compiled to use with sIFR. To be honoust I didn’t know what was expected of me and after a little conversing it became clear: to use the extention gb_sifr you need to have a .swf containing all the characters of the font you want to use.

After some research I found OpensIFR; a tool to create the needed file. In less then 10 minutes time I was able to produce a list, nice looking, sIFR replaced and all. Nice.

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