Acqal Experts Blog About TYPO3 and Other Hot Topics

Cheers to Jweiland for TYPO3 Best Practice Workshop

By: Michael Cannon

Jochen Weiland and Riona Kuthe of JWeiland.net in Germany gave a very good presentation on some TYPO3 best practices last year in Berlin at the TYPO3 conference.

I found the related presentation workshop PDF again today and looked a bit deeper into than before. There's lots of good advice contained therein regarding hosting recommendations, modularizing TypoScript code and helping pick which templating method is right for you.

I strongly recommend reading the PDF, it's in English, which is available below.

Just Updated TYPO3 and Can't Login, Try These Tips!

By: Michael Cannon

For those of you who just upgraded to TYPO3 4.2.6, but can't log into the backend anymore, try the following steps to get going again.

In your web browserFlush cacheClear cookiesLog into TYPO3Click LogoutLog into TYPO3Clear configuration cache Login should be back to normalIf not, TRUNCATE the TYPO3 database tablesbe_sessionsfe_sessionsOnly if front end users are having the same troubleDefinitely should be all clear now

The login problem stems from not logging out of the TYPO3 backend prior to the upgrade and the new encryption algorithm being in place now.

Not Good, Not Bad, Just Different

By: Michael Cannon

You've got to stop banging your head on the wall at some point.

Automatic tt_news META descriptions via Acqal's extension aqnewsmeta

By: Michael Cannon

Acqal is pleased to announce the version 1.0.0 release of aqnewsmeta. This extension updates the TYPO3 newsSubheader register with a truncated, HTML-free version of the news bodytext if no article teaser is available.This is helpful for SEO purposes where each news entry should have a META description, but doesn't.

The extension includes options to adjust the META description length, currently set at 150 characters, per SEO best practices.

References

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Increase TYPO3 Workspace Relation Limits

By: Michael Cannon

When dealing with enterprise and government websites with lots of backend users, backend usergroups, db and file mounts, and workspaces you'll find that the default maximum of 10 relations quite restrictive. By adding the following PHP code to a custom extension ext_tables.php file, you can increase the workspace record relation fields maximum to an arbitrary large number.

// increase number of workspace related backend users and backend usergroupst3lib_div::loadTCA('sys_workspace');$TCA['sys_workspace']['columns']['adminusers']['config']['maxitems'] =...

TYPO3 Extension cbstarter Version 1.3.2 Released

By: Michael Cannon

Version 1.3.2 of extension cbstarter: Acqal Site Starter is now available. This new version offers over a dozen changes and also reflects new TCA adjustments for easier workspace user and mount management.

The extension cbstarter is a great way to quickly and easily adjust TYPO3 default settings to something more friendly for enterprise- and large-scale websites.

The adjustments are handled by making changes through TypoScript Constants and Setup, Page and User TSConfig, ext_tables.php and localconf.php files. These new defaults can be further customized through typical TYPO3 TSconfig...