After a long time, snowflake updated yesterday the Typo3 t3blog extension. The version number jumped from 0.6.2 to 0.8.0 and immediately after to 0.8.1.

What a step!

Maybe the security vulnerabilities found in t3blog were the reason for submitting the fixed and updated version. 

New is a view for the most read posts. Nice feature, but there seems to be missing some parts. E.g. in the widget selector the title is missing and it only works as pi2-widget if you add the following line to your template:

plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2.views < plugin.tx_t3blog_pi1.views

The page browser changed completely and uses now the extension pagebrowse. Ok, I had to adjust the CSS settings, but now it's working again.

Also "my bug" has been fixed - almost. There remains a problem with the category-tags. I fixed it locally. Let's hope that snowflake keeps maintaining the extension.

In the updated documentation is also a reference to a blog near by me:

http://blog.slub-dresden.de

Update 2010-02-04:

I've added two bug reports to bugs.typo3.org:

• Bug 13425: this reports about the views-widget issues I wrote in this post. And of course I added a patch.
• Bug 13426: another problem with the widget usage. In this case the blogList-widget and only if you use the storagePid. A patch fixes this problem (at least for me).

Update 2010-02-10:

My two patches are accepted by snowflake and will be included in next release: Bug 13425, Bug 1342. Thank you Dominic!

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.