yes, it's me with a further, maybe stupid question. I'm very new in TYPO3, I just started working with it. I know some programming languages but no typoscript. Therefore I'm working with the bootstrap package first.
I made some forms in TYPO3 and so far everything was fine but there wasn't any possibility to customize the email (to sender). Therefore I first installed "Form: Mailtexts via plugin" but afterwards the form was not working anymore and I deleted it and everything was fine again.
After some research I have found powermail for creating forms with loads of cool functions.
So, I read four different tutorials about making forms in powermail and it's not working at all.
As far as I can evaluate the problem, I would guess that the last step is the problem, because now I just see a "Hello World" site when loading the page???
I have no idea what I did wrong.
Many thanks in advance for your hints :-)
cheers,
roland
I did internet research and experiments
If you just see "Hello World", than I guess there is a TypoScript record on your root page which loads this dummy content.
using https://www.sitepackagebuilder.com/ you should get a custom site setup in quite a short time
Wow, I don't know were to start. If you see a "hello world" output in TYPO3 in the frontent, your problem is not related to powermail but to your basic configuration. First of all you have to use some lines of typoscript to get a valid output of your content elements.
I would add some pages and some textmedia content elements on it with a bit of a lorem ipsum dummy text.
After that you should open the main TypoScript template and write something like:
page = PAGE
page.10 < styles.content.get
Don't forget to add the TypoScript from fluid_styled_content to get an output. And if you get your first real output of your content elements, you can add a form with a page and some fields and add a content element of type powermail plugin.
There are some learning videos how to start with TYPO3. Maybe this helps you for your first steps.
I wish you success
TYPO3 9.7 LTS, indexed search. I get in my hit list the correct links to all my pages but the titles contains only the title of the detail page and not the html-title of the resulting page. So i end up with dozens of search titles like "detail" for all news and every other extension.
in older versions of TYPO3 this works ...
Can anybody give me a hint?
Thanks.
OK, after some researching and with the hint of Jonas Osburg (thanks!) i found the problem. indexed_search was refactored to use the the TYPO3 pagetitle-API. These lines:
if ($this->conf['indexedDocTitle']) {
$this->contentParts['title'] = $this->conf['indexedDocTitle'];
}
in indexer.php of indexed_search are responsible for the changed behavior. A real dirty hack would be to comment these lines ... well, dont do this!
The real solution seems to be the implementation of a PageTitleProvider in every extension which shows multiple data on a single page. An detailed description and example could be found here:
https://www.richardhaeser.com/typo3-blog/using-pagetitle-api-of-typo3
I have a page which is partly translated. Default is German, translation is English. Now I have the problem, that all links generated with typolink or menus have an English domain part (www.domain.de/en/pagename) no matter if it is translated or not. When I click on it, I see the German content. The wish is, that if there is no translation of the target page, the link shall generate without the "en". How can I achieve that?
I tried with
config.sys_language_mode = default
but had no success. The description of this setting sounded like it could be the answer.
I have realurl here and TYPO3 4.6 (I know it should be updated, but not in my hand).
If found the solution myself.
The magic was the property
protectLvar = all
in the HMENU object. See also description in tsref https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/TyposcriptReference/4.7/ContentObjects(cobject)/Hmenu/Index.html
I'm using Typo3 for the first time and have been asked to update a site built on it.
Making changes to existing templates so far has been OK since they were mainly CSS changes or replacing images. Now though I need to create a couple of new page templates.
What's the easiest way to go about this? The existing site has a home.html and layout.hmlt in the fileadmin directory. Do I need to create a new html file there, if so how do I use this as a new template for some of my pages?
I'm coming from a mainly WordPress background in terms of CMS (I've nearly given in a recoded the site as a WordPress site since I think it would be quicker at this stage) but I'd really prefer to figure this out.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm pulling my hair out trying to read through the documentation and getting nowhere. The site is using Typo3 version 4.4.6
Thanks!
How you add a new template to your page depends on how templating is handled. Sadly TYPO3 has a poor templating out of the box, so there is most likely an extension that does the job on your site.
Probably one of these:
automaketemplate
templa_voila
flux & fluidpages
Check if one of these extension is installed and add a new page template according to the extensions manual or specify your question afterwards.
Edit:
If plain TYPO3 was used, you'll find something like
page = PAGE
page.10 = TEMPLATE
page.10 {
file = fileadmin/myTemplate.html
}
in your Typoscript. You can add tmplate files like the ones that are already there. To use a different template on a page, you have to replace the page.10.file with the template you want to use. This can be done with a new template record (crated in backend via the template module). But this is a rather anoying procedure to change the template, because you have to create each time you want to change the page template for a page and its children. That is why mostly extensions are used for this.
The out of the box situation gets better with newer TYPO3 versions but in 4.4.6 there are no Backend Layouts that could be uses for a template switch ot something like that.
In Addition to change the mere file you have to adjust the subparts or marker that are filled with the content. You'll find that configured in your TypoScript as well
I am very new in TYPO3 (I came from Joomla and WordPress) and I am having difficulties in understanding how templates are handled in TYPO3 (it seems to me that the situation is more complex in TYPO3 than it is in Joomla and in WordPress).
I have installed and I am testing this version of TYPO3 introductionpackage-6.1.3.zip
In Joomla and in WordPress a template simply is an HTML structure (which are marked in the various areas of the page where the CMS modules will be placed) and the related CSS settings.
In TYPO3 it seems to me that the situation is very different or am I wrong?
At this moment I am reading this section of the official documentation that references the default template of the TYPO3 Introduction Package: http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/GettingStartedTutorial/Templates/Index.html
The difference between static content and dynamic content of a website created using a CMS is pretty clear to me (this is not different from any others CMS like Joomla or WP)
Dynamic content: is something that is dynamically created by the CMS (executing some queries) as a menu (it look into a DB table and then a script renders the menu on the page)
Static content: is something that is fixed as the title of the website or a background image
Until now I think that it is pretty clear for me but I have many doubts when the documentation speaks about the Template Record as a way to implement the previous principle.
Here: http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/GettingStartedTutorial/Templates/%28%28generated%29%29/Index.html
it says that:
This is a control element that instructs TYPO3 how to handle a certain
branch of the page tree.
In particular with this image it shows how to modify these template records for the Introduction Package Template (Introduction Package is also the name of the template provided with this package or what?):
Then on this section on the documentation it says:
If you edit the template "Introduction Package" you will see that most
fields are empty. For each website you need a TypoScript template on
the ROOT level, in this case that is the "Introduction Package"
template. The TypoScript configuration of a website can be quite long
therefore it is possible to make many small TypoScript templates that
get included in the main template. For better maintenance, all
TypoScript of the Introduction Package has been put into the folder
'Typoscript Templates'. The only thing the "Introduction Package"
template does is to include the "ROOT" template that in turn includes
other templates.
And this is totaly obscure for me: I have understood that TypoScript is a configuration language that can be used to configure the frontend (so I think that I can use it to configure how my page will appear) but I can't understand the following assertions:
What does this mean: For each website you need a TypoScript template on the ROOT level, in this case that is the "Introduction Package" template ? I have installed TYPO3 Introduction Package and I have only a web site !!! What is the ROOT level of the website? Is it the Welcome to TYPO3 node in the List section Tree? So in pracatice I am assigning a specific template to the root of a website and this is used in all subnodes (all the pages as Home, About TYPO3, Features, etc)?
What does it mean when it says: For better maintenance, all TypoScript of the Introduction Package has been put into the folder 'Typoscript Templates'. Where is this folder? I don't have it.
What does it mean when it says: The only thing the "Introduction Package" template does is to include the "ROOT" template that in turn includes other templates.?
Tnx so much
Andrea
The root level of your website is the page called Home. It also has the globe instead of a normal page icon, because the flag Use as root page is set in the page properties under behavior.
When you access a page in TYPO3 CMS, then it will walk up the rootline until it finds a root page with a template record. In this case, it is indeed a record called Introduction Package, but what is more important, is that this is a record of the type template.
OK, so far we have found a template for your request. Now TypoScript comes into play. On a normal request, the template engine will search for an object named page which is (usually) of the type PAGE. Thus the most simple template is:
page = PAGE
page.10 = TEXT
page.10.value = <h1>Hello World</h1>
Which just prints Hello World on your website.
What happens next depends on your template approach chosen (marker base, automaketemple+marker, templavoila, fluid, fedext, ...). That means that TYPO3 CMS does not just have one template approach (or one kind of template), but is extensible and very flexible, as you can combine them.
In the Introduction Package uses the automaketemplate+markers approach. This includes a ready HTML template, automatically creates blocks based on certain rules and then replaces those blocks with dynamic content.
OK, where do you find the configuration for this?
The actual template file is fileadmin/default/templates/introduction_package_site_structure_template.html.
The TypoScript configuration is in fileadmin/default/TypoScript. There you can find a file called setup.ts. It includes all other TypoScript files. There are various folders, e.g. menu for the menu definition, block for the dynamic blocks, etc.
The configuration of automaeketemplate is in Extension/AutomakeTemplate/setup.ts.
The sections defined with the help of automaketemplate are replaced in Page/setup.ts.
The full TypoScript defines a tree structure of objects with their configuration. You can view the full parsed template with either the Template Analyzer or the TypoScript Object Browser which you find in the template tools in the dropdown select box on top of the module.
The separation of the TypoScript into several files is done by the purpose of the configuration inside the files. This is meant for easy maintenance and not for easy learning. You can always use the Template Analyzer to see the full template that is generated out of the fragments and the TS Object Browser to see what kind of configuration tree this results in.
This might sound a bit difficult at first, especially compared to the primitive template systems of other products, however it gives you great possibilities that are yet easy to maintain, even if you do major updates.
It is great to see that people decide to use TYPO3. In my point of view the biggest difference to WordPress, Drupal...
is the strict separation between HTML and dynamic logic, witch can be TypoScript/userFunc or Fluid logic...
and even this makes TYPO3 so powerful. nothing against WordPress, Drupal... ect. but to use PHP in templates is especially for updates a dangerous thing to do.
I am always impressed whats possible with TYPO3. "I cant do it" is not valid for TYPO3. TYPO§ always has a way.
It is indeed a hard way through to learn all the corners of TYPO3 but it is worth.
Keep doing it and you will succeed
Ludwig
Great to hear you also wanna use TYPO3 as a CMS.
To understand the TYPO3 CMS better, i think you can better begin from scratch, meaning download the source + dummy package and install it on your server, or maby download a wamp package.
Currently I use Fluid to build my templates. For the part outside TYPO3 its much like Joomla, just create one or more HTML files, with some special markers.
The other parts, which are in TYPO3, may be some more difficult now, and it would take a lot of time to explain that here, so i'll refer to a tutorial made by Thomas Deuling:
http://thomas.deuling.org/2011/06/create-a-complete-typo3-website-by-using-the-fluid-template-engine/
You might wanna join the TYPO3 mailing list for italy, found at http://lists.typo3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-ug-italy.
Furthermore, the TYPO3 website is filled with documentation, although sometimes out of date its still usefull. Also you might wanna take a look at the TYPO3 certified integrator program. There you can find all the basics to become a master at TYPO3.
Please feel welcome to the community, TYPO3 is inspiring people to share!
Kind regards,
Jeroen
Hi i wrote a little starter ts time ago.. maybe helps you
Remember in TYPO3 there are many ways to solve things!..
gl
Setup:
config {
baseURL = http://www.bla.com/
prefixLocalAnchors = all
meaningfulTempFilePrefix=1
doctype=xhtml_trans
htmlTag_langKey=de
remove_defaultJS=external
inlineStyle2TempFile=1
disablePrefixComment = 1
linkVars=L
sys_language_uid=0
language=en
locale_all = en_EN.UTF-8
xmlprologue = none
}
page = PAGE
page.typeNum = 0
page.bodyTag=<body>
page.10=TEMPLATE
page.10 {
template = FILE
template.file = fileadmin/templates/template.html
workOnSubpart = DOCUMENT
subparts {
CONTENT=COA
CONTENT.10<styles.content.get
}
}
File: template.html
<!-- ###DOCUMENT### -->
<!-- ###CONTENT### -->CONTENT<!-- ###CONTENT### -->
<!-- ###DOCUMENT### -->