Recently I discovered RSS feeds as cool feature of t3blog. So I imported this blog as feed in my main website www.bigga.de. But I wondered about the category names above the titles. It seemed to be switched "linux" and "typo3".

Today I got deeper in the code and found the reason for this. The category names were not switched but totally wrong because it took the amount of categories (you may assign multiple to one blog entry) as selector for the category name in table tx_t3blog_cat.

This maybe right in former times but in current release 0.6.2 you have to join table tx_t3blog_post_cat_mm as well.

I fixed this issue for me and made a bug report for Typo3 on bugs.typo3.org

You find my simple patch also here.

Recently I added the RSS widget of t3blog to my blog. Now you may subscribe to this RSS feed (see on the left or on top in in your browser).

Because the configuration was a little tricky (as usual) I want share my template Typoscript setup settings with you:

plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2 {

  rss {

    generator=T3Blog

    feedTitle= Linux Typo3 and other Pains

    feedCopyright= Alexander Bigga

    feedManagingEditor= Alexander Bigga

    feedWebMaster= Alexander Bigga

    feedLink= "http://linux.bigga.de/blog/"

    feedDescription= [ daily hacking ]

    feedImage = "http://linux.bigga.de/typo3conf/ext/t3blog/icons/rss.png"

    postItemCount=5

    list.5 >

    list.10 >

    list.20 >

    list.40 >

  } 

}

 

xmlnews = PAGE

xmlnews {

  typeNum = 100

  config {

    disableAllHeaderCode = 1

    additionalHeaders = Content-type:text/xml

    linkVars = L

    no_cache = 1

         xhtml_cleaning = 0

         admPanel = 0

  }

  10 = USER

  10 {

    # Call the user function

    userFunc = tx_t3blog_pi1->main

    widget.rss < plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2.rss

    template = TEXT

    template.field = rss

  }

} 

page.headerData.500 = TEXT

page.headerData.500.value = <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" \

      title="RSS-Feed" href="http://linux.bigga.de/blog/rssType/2.0/rssContent/Posts/rss.xml" /> 

Yesterday I was very brave and upgraded my Typo3 on linux.bigga.de from 4.2.10 (stable) to 4.3 Beta2. I thought, it's a good idea to work already on a non-production system with the future typo3-release.

4.3 seems to be much bigger than 4.2. Archive size increases from 7,8M to 12M. This is for sure due to some backports from Forge (Typo3v5) to enable the MVC-concept in extensions already in Typo3v4.

After going step by step through the upgrade wizard, everything seemed to be fine. But then I tried to add a post to the t3blog and I failed adding any content.

I was trying a while and removed finally tinyrte and reinstalled htmlarea RTE. Now, I can add contents again but have to use the very slow (!) RTE again :-(

Other uses already noticed this "bug". I just added some comments to the bugtracker:

bugs.typo3.org

On linux.bigga.de/blog I've installed now some Typo3 blog and I will try to tell you from time to time my solutions and problems with Typo3 and other software monsters (especially Linux).

This blog uses the t3blog extension which is written by snowflake.ch. It took me some time to setup the Typo3 to use this extension. That's always the big task in Typo3: to install a new extension is quite simple but to get it working in the way _you_ want, may take hours. Afterwards everything is simple, of course.

Currently I am only using the bloglist, tagcloud and calendar widget of the t3blog. I can't stand social networking icons, rss-feeds and other garbage for the eyes. This is quite a nice feature of t3blog: either use all with a provided template-page or use only some widgets on any page you want.