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Quite often I want to set a link to an article I wrote somewhere else on this TYPO3 page. This is no problem, if this article is on a separate page with a unique ID.

But howto set a link to a t3blog article or a tt_news article?

As usual, there are several possibilities:

• add the AOE Linkhandler extension
• add the RTE Generic Record extension
• replace your htmlarea RTE with tinymce_rte with buildin linkhander support

I tried them all. To link a tt_news article is no problem with all of it. But howto link a t3blog-article? This seems to be not so easy if you're using realurl!

[...]

By adding the following Typoscript to your page TSconfig (Page->Edit->Options), tinymce_rte shows you the articles and t3blog-categories when selecting the blog-record folder (in my case ID is 3):

RTE.default {  
     linkhandler {       
       tx_t3blog_post {          
           default { 
              # instead of default you could write the id of the storage folder             
              # id of the Single News Page             
              parameter = 3             
              additionalParams = &tx_t3blog_pi1[blogList][showUidPerma]={field:uid}
              additionalParams.insertData = 1
              select = uid,title as header,hidden
              sorting = crdate desc
           }
       }        

       tx_t3blog_cat {            
           default {                
              parameter = 3                
              additionalParams = &tx_t3blog_pi1[blogList][category]={field:uid}                
              additionalParams.insertData = 1                
              select = uid,catname as header,hidden                
              sorting = crdate desc            
           }
       } 
    }
 }

Unfortunately it is not possible to select the tags from the menu. This is because all tags of one post are stored in the tagClouds field of the tx_t3blog_post table. So still have to add an external link to your page and add e.g. "blog/tags/typo3" if you're using realurl, your blog is located on page "blog" and you want to select the "typo3" tag.

What I like very much in the book is the part "There's more" in every section where the author refers to further information if you want to get deeper in a special topic.

In the chapters 6,7 and 8 the author is creating several extensions to handle multimedia tasks: connect to Amazon S3, get and upload photos from/to Flickr using its API, get a list of videos via the youtube API, extract metadata from OpenOffice documents or converting video formats.

At this point you should really know writing TYPO3 extension otherwise you get lost. And this stresses the lack of good multimedia extensions in TYPO3. So you really need to write your own stuff from time to time. The book really helps you with it because provides ready to use sourcecode for its examples.

Conclusion:

The book covers a very wide area in about 200 pages. It encourage you to embed multimedia content on your website even if you need to write some tiny extensions to meet your requirements.

It's easy to read. If you know TYPO3 extension development already you may profit a lot without getting bored. If you're not so familiar with it you must be aware that this is no "easy-click-manual".

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wp		: yes
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power management:

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z530   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 800.000
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 1
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
                  clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc 
                  arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 
                  ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips	: 3191.94
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power management:

Recently, t3blog changed with 0.8.3 the pagebrowser and requires now to install tx-pagebrowse by Dmitry Dulepov.

Using the new pagebrowser needs to change your CSS settings otherwise it looks like the default and not like you maybe used to have it.

On my German Blog, www.dresden-west.de, the pagebrowser remains English and I now examined why. The solution is the missing language file. It's not comming with the extension itself. But you have to pull it manually:

1. goto the Extension Manager
2. select "Translation handling"
3. select your languages you want to pull (e.g. "German")
4. press "Update from Repository"

Now it should be in German or whatever language you have selected.