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• Conditions and dynamic values in TCA fields of TYPO3

  Jun 20, 2009 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

  Jun 2, 2009 Robert Lemke just announced that the first public alpha version of FLOW3 has been released. A reason to celebrate!

• Tiny introduction to heatmaps

  May 29, 2009 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

  May 16, 2009 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.

• Extbase presentation at T3DD09

  May 15, 2009 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.

• Thinking about UTF-8 character set conversion in TYPO3

  Apr 23, 2009 UTF-8 seems to become more and more popular as a character set used with TYPO3. Changing the charset of a system can be tricky and there are a lot of traps. Lots of mailing list requests prove that. Here's are some general thoughts about the subject (no howto!).

• Book review of "TYPO3 Extension Development" by Dmitry Dulepov

  Mar 27, 2009 The market for english books on TYPO3 is still very thin - compared to german books. This possibly depends on the great popularity TYPO3 enjoys in germany. Unfortunately a lot of these german books are oversized. Few of them are concentrating on one audience (editors, administrators, developers) and their specific task, but covering the full range of topics on TYPO3. For a TYPO3 extension developer that meant to skip 3/4 of the content of most books. In contrast, "TYPO3 Extension Development" by Dmitry Dulepov, recently published by Packt Publishing has chosen a different approach.

• Added doxygen code documentation of TYPO3 trunk

  Mar 11, 2009 I have added a page with code documentation of TYPO3, generated with doxygen. It provides a nice overview of the latest code from trunk and allows to search for classes, functions and properties in the bleeding edge TYPO3 core.

• Is SQL injection possible in TypoScript objects?

  Mar 5, 2009 Using GET/POST vars in SQL queries involves the risk of SQL injection if the parameter is not properly sanitized. There are lots of warnings and documents around in the web on how to prevent this in PHP scripts. But what about TypoScript?

• Add CSH to TYPO3 FlexForm fields

  Mar 4, 2009 In the previous article I came up with a short introduction to adding context sensitive help to backend modules of TYPO3. Now let's have a look at FlexForms.