Acqal Experts Blog About TYPO3 and Other Hot Topics

Creating a MySQL Database for TYPO3 using CPanel

By: Virgil Huston

Today, I created a development site for a support client's web site. A development (dev) server allows you to try all kinds of things without affecting the live site. Not everything can be done in the draft workspace on a live site, so dev sites are essential.There are a number of ways to copy a site to another server, but as I was going through the process, I thought that some things tend to be taken for granted by writers of instructions. One of these things is actually creating a MySQL database for the new site. This applies to copied sites and completely new sites. Some writers assume you...

Acqal Promotes Biking and Families with World Vision

By: Michael Cannon

Acqal continues to promote helping others and having a little fun with a recent charity contribution to World Vision for 10 bicycle loans. This donation enables families to be loaned the funds to purchase a bicycle and every 6-months another family will be able to do the same. The simple addition of a bicycle to impoverished farm families allows them to move more goods safely and quickly between home and market. This positively influences their health and helps them make their labors more efficient.

From World Vision:

Give a bike loan and help 10 families out of poverty. Your gift of a...

It's Official T3CON10-Dallas Web Site Launched! Join Us!

By: Virgil Huston

As one of the organizers of the conference, there will be more original posts from me on the plans and events for T3CON10-Dallas, but for now, here is the official announcement. I hope to meet as many of you there as possible!We invite you to T3CON10-Dallas, the 2nd annual North American TYPO3 conference on May 20-22nd. This will be a great time to learn more about the powerful system we use everyday and to connect with other developers and TYPO3 users from both North America, Europe and around the world. Several internationally-known leaders of the TYPO3 community will be attending and...

Create a simple "Contact Us" mail form in TYPO3

By: Michael Cannon

Name | *name=inputEmail | *email=input | | EMAILPhone | phone=inputSubject | subject=select | Consulting, Sales, Support, Training, Web HostingRequest | comments=textarea,25,10| formtype_mail=submit| Request Free Consultation| html_enabled=hidden | 0

You can change Name, Email, and Subject of above to display as you'd like on the front-end. Don't change name, email, and subject or else the sent email from name, from email, and subject will not be what the submitter provided. The * before name and email denotes those fields as required. The EMAIL of email, informs...

Configure TYPO3 for Localized Websites

By: Michael Cannon

A bit older of a multi-lingual setup guide, but the principals are the same.

TYPO3 in 2010, Join the TYPO3 Association and Get Involved

By: Virgil Huston

Despite rough economic times all over the world, TYPO3 made great strides in 2009 and the future looks good for both TYPO3 4.4 and TYPO3 5. We at Acqal had a good year and TYPO3 continues to increase its market share in the US, although we all would like to see that move a lot quicker.2009 saw the first TYPO3CON outside of Germany. Held in Dallas, it was well attended and was a great start to bigger things to come. T3CON10 in Frankfurt was the best T3CON yet and it looks like settling on Frankfurt as the venue was a great idea, as Frankfurt is centralized and easy to get to from both Europe...

TYPO3 Association Quarterly Report 2009-12-14

By: Michael Cannon

From Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:00 email `[t3a-members] Quarterly Report`

--------------------------------------------------TYPO3 Association Quarterly Report --------------------------------------------------Dear Supporters of the TYPO3 Association, Further down I send you the link for downloading the Quarterly Report of the TYPO3 Association.The most important event in the last quarter has been the very successful T3CON09. The financial success of the conference exceeded all expectations and therefore resolved a budget shortage. Additionally these additional funds allowed us to support...

Prepare cPanel/WHM and Ruby for Redmine: A Walk-Through

By: Michael Cannon

Despite our abysmal first attempt with installing the Redmine project management software back in September, we've been loving Redmine for helping keep our projects on track. As we get closer to a mid-February launch of high-availability, failover TYPO3 hosting, we wanted to migrate our non-TYPO3 websites and special server configurations to new environments.

As Redmine is a Ruby-based project management system, this meant spinning up a new CentOS 5 server with cPanel/WHM and Ruby. This time around though, our week-long headache only lasted 4 hours. Out of it, comes the following...

TYPO3 Acqal log_analyzer and difference_viewer Extensions

By: Virgil Huston

A client recently asked me to provide them a list of front end web site changes between two specific dates. TYPO3 comes with a built-in Log (see "Log" in the image below).

However, what one gets when running a Log report can be quite confusing for someone not familiar with the terminology one sees. In addition, the Log really doesn't tell you specifically what was changed, particularly with content, which is what the client was interested in. User names may or may not be understood, etc. Bottom line is that the normal TYPO3 Log report is not detailed enough and readable for...

TYPO3, Marketing and the English Language

By: Virgil Huston

Sometimes coming up with a blog post topic can be hard, so this week, some odds and ends that are of interest and some things that keep rolling around in my mind.TYPO3, Marketing and the English LanguageI live in the US and use the US version of Google for searching. One thing I did while trying to come up with a blog topic, was run a search for TYPO3 on Google News. Wow, one would have thought I was using news.google.de. Out of the first 5 pages of news results (50 results), only 2 were English (one of them irrelevant as far as TYPO3 is concerned, the other a press release), the rest were...