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!

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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.

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.

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