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Configuring TYPO3

Dynamic Caching in TYPO3

Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008

By default TYPO3 offers frontend content caching mechanisms that work for most "normal" websites and most "normal" website functionality. It's easy to enable and disable the page cache in the page configuration (pages record) and...

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WYMEditor for TYPO3

Posted on Monday, October 08, 2007

For the past couple nights I've been hacking away at integrating WYMEditor into TYPO3. For those of you who don't know, WYMEditor is a new RTE that aims to produce semantically correct XHTML output by focusing on what editors...

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HTML/CSS for TYPO3 Sites: Best Practices

Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Here are some guidelines and best practices for developing HTML/CSS site templates for use in a Cast Iron Coding TYPO3 environment.  At the end of the this document, I'll provide a basic slug of empty CSS so you can easily...

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Getting the Sender’s Name and E-mail Address in TYPO3’s Formmail Element

Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006

The formmail content element is an easy way to pop a contact form on the page, but details on configuring it are sparse and incomplete. In this short article Lucas demonstates one cool thing we can do to get the most out of...

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Recommended Configuration for htmlArea

Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Lucas describes some of the less appetizing side effects of WYSIWYG editing, discusses how to configure and use the htmlArea TYPO3 extension to say what you mean and mean what you say.

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Modifying the TCA

Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2005

Modifying the TCA is easy, and doing so allows you to make the backend act just as you want it to. This tutorial explains how to make a small extension to store your modifications to the TCA array.