Quite often you have the requirement to list events, news, references or whatever in a cronological order on your webpage. The tt_news extension of Typo3 is capable to do a lot of things. Though it is quite complex to configure it to your needs.

One missing feature is a calendar view of the upcoming events. With newscalendar you can do this.

As of version 1.10 newscalendar uses the jQuery tools from flowplayer.org. In my (news-) template I configured my own css for calendar and context menu and I modified the default images of the tooltip background (live demo on doris.bigga.de/vortraege/):

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.calendar.startWeekDay = 1
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssContextMenu = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssContextMenu.css
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssCalendar = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssCalendar.css
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.jsJQueryTooltip = fileadmin/templates/doris/js/jquery.tools.min.js

In the last statement I include my own version of the jquery tools. I just changed the statement "relative:false" into "relative:true". Otherwise the tooltip isn't shown above the date but somewhere because the javascript misscalculates the position.

I added a bugreport to the typo3 forge bugtracker: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/5313

UPDATE (2009-11-26):

There seems to be a lot of development in progress. Today version 2.1.1 is online and my bug is fixed because the jQuerytooltip has been dropped. So I disabled the two lines in the template again:

# plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssContextMenu = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssContextMenu.css

# plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.jsJQueryTooltip = fileadmin/templates/doris/js/jquery.tools.min.js

Now I can modify the default scheme by (e.g.):

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.backgroundColor=#E3EECB

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.borderWidth=2

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.positions='top'

UPDATE (2010-02-03):

Today version 2.1.4 is online. Fixing errors which has already been fixed and got lost in 2.1.2. Confusing.

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

Recently I released version 0.2.1 of my first typo3 extension ab_booking.

With ab_booking you can offer rooms (or whatever) and let user book it for some days. The booking will be entered and you will receive an email with the user data.

Want to see it running? Have a look at www.weltcafe-dresden.de

Sometimes I want to add new backend users to a Typo3 website. And everytime I wonder how to change the backend language. The online help is wrong! It tell's you to install the corresponding csh_XX-extension. But this is obsolete!

Do the following steps to add German or any other language:

• choose Extension Manager the Menue "Translation Handlling"
• select the desired language
• save
• verify / update from Repository

Now you may change in User settings the backend language. Relogin and done!

This blog is intended to be reminder for me. For example to keep things like this:

In Typo3 you can add images (media) to your text and put it above, in text, below text or whatever. You select the image in the backend and... nothing happens. Only a test-image is shown with the text "cannot create thumbnail".

On my server-setup the imagemagick tools are located in /usr/local/bin but the default location typo3 is looking for is /usr/X11R6/bin. In my case, I have to change the variable:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['GFX']['im_path'] = '/usr/local/bin/'; 

And everything is perfect now!