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...

TYPO3 Tips and Tricks - Mass Copy and Move

By: Virgil Huston

We are currently working on a web site migration to TYPO3 project that has thousands of pages. We imported the pages, but there is now a new site map, so many of the pages must be shifted around, placed in different sections, etc.

TYPO3's mass copy / move and paste functionality has made what could be an unbelievably tedious and time consuming task into a much quicker and streamlined process. For situations like this, mass copy / paste is essential, saves us time and saves the client money. It is truly a win-win situation.

I have created a short tutorial to explain the basics of this...

More TYPO3 Goodies

By: Virgil Huston

There was / is an interesting discussion on the LinkedIn TYPO3 Users Group called "Do you blog about TYPO3?"Some of the responses I was aware of, others were new. They are worth putting on the "Ultimate TYPO3 Reource List," plus I added a few more.David Smeringe's blog - Programming and web design centric weblog with a lot on TYPO3. mediaVROG Blog - Maik Vlcek's blog, XHTML/CSS, Javascript/Ajax mit mootools, Barrierearmut, Typo3 (German)Nikolay Orlenko's blog - TYPO3, Drupal and other CMS in Ukraine. (Russian)Scenic Living - From the Netherlands, blogging about typo3,...

TYPO3 Extension Manager Beginner Tip

By: Virgil Huston

TYPO3's Extension Manager is a great way to easily import extensions into your web site. But, how many times have you searched for an extension you know is there and had no results?

This may be because your settings on what extensions the manager is allowed to search for keep you from finding the extension you are looking for.

There are two settings, one for reviewed extensions and one for all extensions. Reviewed extensions are certainly completely safe, but so are many unreviewed extensions. If your are set to search only for reviewed extensions, you will miss many others.

As long...

Reflections on T3CON09 Part 2

By: Virgil Huston

T3CON09 officially started on Thursday morning with the tutorial sessions. I was torn between Ron Hall's "A Framework for TemplaVoila" and Riona Kuthe / Jochen Weiland's "How to customize the TYPO3 Backend for the needs of each editor." I ended up in Ron's tutorial and it was fantastic. Check out his TV framework at templavoila.busynoggin.com/.Here is how Ron explains it:"TemplaVoila is the most powerful of the TYPO3 templating methods. With this templating extension an experienced developer can produce sites with very flexible layout options for the content...

The Ultimate TYPO3 Resource List

By: Virgil Huston

Or at least the start of the ultimate list :-)As I look over the results from our TYPO3 Training Methods Effectiveness Survey and finish up our paper for presenting at T3CON09, I see that there are a lot of methods used to learn TYPO3. Everyone has a different learning style, there is no one correct way and use of multiple methods is the norm.Among those methods are reading or watching online resources such as blogs, wikis, tutorials and articles. Not all learning requires formal courses.But it is not always easy to find the resources you need and they are scattered all over the web. So, we...

Register for T3CON09 today!

By: Michael Cannon

The International TYPO3 Conference T3CON09 offers you the opportunity to meet the worlds best TYPO3 specialists and learn about new and innovative ideas around TYPO3.

Keeping up with TYPO3

By: Virgil Huston

Like all things in the Information Age, keeping up with TYPO3 is a double edged sword. There is tons of information available, but the problem is keeping up with all. This is a good problem to have, so I am not complaining, but I am struggling to find a solution on:How best to make sure you find all the relevant informationThis is perhaps the easiest part, especially now that Twitter has arrived on the scene. Twitter allows one to find new sources of information, articles, blogs, new and updated extensions, as well as helping with meeting new people. You can set up groups of people you...

Last Chance to Contribute to TYPO3 Training Paper for T3CON09

By: Virgil Huston

Myself and co-author Michael Cannon (Acqal's CEO) had our paper submission accepted as a talk for T3CON09 in Frankfurt. This is very exciting and will require our best effort to meet, and hopefully exceed, the usual high quality presentations that one always finds at any T3CON. It is also quite an honor. As you probably already know, I have been running a TYPO3 Training Methods Effectiveness survey for the past couple of months. If you are an Acqal blog reader, Facebook friend, or follow me on Twitter, you may even have become sick of all the reminders :-) The results of the survey will form...

TYPO3 Teaserbar and T3CON09

By: Virgil Huston

I love my new HP Mini and wrote this blog entry in a text editor using it. When I was done, I set the mini down and the battery decided to fall out. Not good. I get to now rewrite my entry. At least this isn't as bad as losing an entire research paper when I was in grad school. I think I might save as I go this time :-)

Acqal Exec Team Going to T3CON09

We are excited that the Acqal Executive Team will all be at T3CON09 in Frankfurt, for a variety of reasons. First is the conference itself, including tutorial day. The amount that may be learned is amazing and hard to describe. This year,...