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April 2016

 

TYPO3 Newsletter - April 2016

Welcome to the new issue of the TYPO3 Newsletter. Here you will find news and interesting facts from the TYPO3 universe.

TYPO3 News

TYPO3 CMS 6.2.22 and 7.6.6 released

On April 26th the TYPO3 versions 6.2.22 and 7.6.6 were released. Both are maintenance releases that fix bugs.

TYPO3 Inc. - What is next?

At this year's general meeting of the TYPO3 Association, it was decided to found a separate company behind TYPO3.

TYPO3 CMS 8.0 - The new features

Once again, Patrick Lobacher has summarized all the new features in the current TYPO3 version.

iTUG

TYPO3 continues to grow! Now there is also a user group in India.

typo3.com

typo3.com is online again! After several years of inactivity, this domain is once again a site aimed at business customers and decision-makers.

Results of the TYPO3 Association Elections 2016

The results of the elections for the Expert Advisory Board (EAB) and the Business Control Committee (BCC) of the TYPO3 Association.

New TYPO3 certification for editors

The TYPO3 Certification Team has recently started offering a new certification for "TYPO3 CMS Certified Editor" (TCCE).

Regular maintenance release schedule

For TYPO3 7, a regular release cycle has been decided for the upcoming maintenance updates. This makes it easier to plan for future updates.

TYPO3 tips

Select image section - ImageManipulation

Since TYPO3 7.2, images in content elements can be individually cropped before they are rendered on the website. In this article, Stefan Frömken shows a method for defining your own aspect ratios.

Google PageSpeed Insights 100/100 for TYPO3

Based on the presentation by András Ottó, Manfred Rutschmann has summarized here how to optimize the speed of TYPO3 pages.

Sphinx - Easy Rendering of reST documentation

In this article, Marcus Schwemer describes how to get started with ReST, the current format for TYPO3 documentation.

Monitoring TYPO3 installations

Some of you may still be familiar with TYPO3 Caretaker. With t3monitoring there is now another way to monitor multiple TYPO3 installations.

Change the RenderType of an input field

Since TYPO3 7.5, the rendering of input fields can be customized.

Migrate from the TYPO3 database wrapper to the Doctrine DBAL syntax

With TYPO3 8.1, the Doctrine Database Abstraction Layer will also find its way into the TYPO3 core. This article explains the migration.

How to install TYPO3 8.0 as a local test system under Windows

If you want to use TYPO3 locally on Windows, you often use XAMPP. However, there are a few stumbling blocks here, which are explained and removed in this article.

Video tutorials: Access-protected areas in the frontend

4-part video tutorial on the use of frontend user groups in TYPO3.

Video tutorial: Setting up PhpStorm for TYPO3 projects

In this video, Oliver Thiele shows how to set up the PhpStorm development environment so that you can work optimally with TYPO3 projects.

TYPO3 Extensions

Protect files from direct download

With the TYPO3 extension fal_securedownload, files can be protected against direct download in the frontend.

File upload for frontend users

With the TYPO3 extension pluploadfe, frontend users can upload files.

Powermail 3.0 is out

Version 3 of the popular Powermail form extension has been released, bringing with it a number of new features and changes.

Extension updates in April

A small selection of extensions that were published in April as new or updated versions in TER (in order of publication):
  • Heise Shariff
    by Markus Klein
    Shariff implementation for TYPO3 CMS including the backend module, a viewhelper and a plugin.
  • Mask
    by WEBprofil - Gernot Ploiner e.U.
    Create your own content elements and page templates. Easy to use, even without programming skills because of the comfortable drag&drop system.
  • Google sitemap
    by Dmitry Dulepov
    High performance Google sitemap implementation that avoids typical errors by other similar extensions.
  • FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
    by Jainish Senjaliya
    FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
  • FAL Secure Download
    by Frans Saris
    Secure download of assets. Makes it possible to secure FE use of assets/files by setting permissions to folders/files for fe_groups.
  • Plupload for FE
    by Felix Nagel
    Provides an API and a FE plugin for using plupload, a highly usable and advanced upload handler.
  • Useful tasks in scheduler module
    by CERDAN Yohann
    Useful tasks in the scheduler module : full backup, send query result in mail, exec SH script with reports...
  • Formhandler
    by Dev-Team Typoheads
    The swiss army knife for all kinds of mailforms, completely new written using the MVC concept. Result: Flexibility, Flexibility, Flexibility :-).
  • Aimeos web store
    by Aimeos
    Aimeos is a fast, flexible and usability optimized store system and e-commerce solution available in multiple languages (also available as TYPO3 distribution).
  • Faceted Search
    by Christian Buelter (team.inmedias)
    Faceted fulltext search for TYPO3. Fast, flexible and easy to use. Very easy to install. Fast (tested with over 200.000 records) and flexible (you can write your own indexers). Indexes content directly from the databases.
  • owlSlider
    by comsolit AG
    Responsive carousel slider for TYPO3, Touch enabled based on the jQuery OWL Carousel.
  • Guide
    by Thomas Deuling, Pascal Stammer
    Guides new users through the system. New guided tours can easily be configured by page typoscript.
  • Event management and registration
    by Torben Hansen
    Configurable event management and registration extension based on ExtBase and Fluid.
  • Questionnaire
    by kennziffer.com
    Easily create any type of questionnaire, survey, poll, quiz or eLearning. The results may be evaluated and displayed graphically at any time.
  • Backend Gravatar
    by Frans Saris
    AvatarProvider for Gravatar support in backend.
  • Speaking URLs for TYPO3
    by Dmitry Dulepov
    Makes TYPO3 URLs search engine friendly.
  • Useful information in reports module
  • by CERDAN Yohann
    Useful information in the reports module: xclass, ajax, cliKeys, eID, general status of the system (encoding, DB, php vars...), hooks, compare local and TER extension (diff), used content type, used plugins, ExtDirect... It can really help you during migration or new existing project (to have global reports of the system).
  • Dynamic Content Elements (DCE)
    by Armin Ruediger Vieweg
    DCE is an extension for the CMS TYPO3, which creates easily and fast dynamic content elements. It is an alternative to flexible content elements (FCE) but without need of TemplaVoila (TV). Based on Extbase and Fluid.
  • Aimeos web store distribution
    by Aimeos
    The Aimeos web store distribution is a fast, flexible and usability optimized store system and e-commerce solution available in multiple languages. It contains all necessary components for running a web store and integrates perfectly in CRM and ERP systems as well as payment and delivery service providers.
  • Apache Tika for TYPO3
    by Ingo Renner
    Provides Tika services for TYPO3 to detect a documents language, extract meta data, and extract content from files. Can either use a stand alone Tika executable or Tika integrated in a Solr server with an activated extracting request handler.
  • Metadata extraction
    by Fabien Udriot
    PHP-based metadata extraction. The extension relies on the new Metadata Extractor API introduced in TYPO3 CMS 6.2.
  • PHPUnit
    by Oliver Klee
    Unit testing for TYPO3. Includes PHPUnit 4.8, Selenium, a BE test runner module, a CLI test runner, PhpStorm integration and a testing framework.
  • S3 driver for FAL
    by Arno Schoon
    Connect FAL/TYPO3 to any of the configured S3 buckets with a few clicks. File based configuration allows specific buckets depending on the context of your application.
  • OpenStreetMap
    by Robert Heel
    Add an interactive OpenStreetMap map to your website. Can also show other OpenLayers compatible maps.
  • Instagram integration
    by Jesper Paardekooper
    Offers Instagram integration for TYPO3
  • TYPO3 Console
    by Helmut Hummel
    A reliable and powerful command line interface for TYPO3 CMS
  • Multishop
    by Bas van Beek (BVB Media)
    TYPO3 Multishop is an E-Commerce plugin for the TYPO3 CMS which supports front-end editing and multiple web stores within the same pagetree.
  • Apache Solr for TYPO3 - Enterprise Search
    by Ingo Renner
    Apache Solr for TYPO3 is the enterprise search server you were looking for with special features such as Faceted Search or Synonym Support and incredibly fast response times of results within milliseconds.
  • femanager
    by femanager dev team
    TYPO3 Frontend User Registration and Management based on Extbase and Fluid and on TYPO3 7.6 and the possibility to extend it. Extension basicly works like sr_feuser_register
  • powermail
    by Powermail Development Team
    Powermail is a well-known, editor-friendly, powerful and easy to use mailform extension with a lots of features (spam prevention, marketing information, optin, ajax submit, diagram analysis, etc...).
This list is only a selection of interesting extensions, not a recommendation or rating. The extensions have not been developed or tested by us.

events

TYPO3camp Vienna

In a few days, from May 6 - 8, the first international TYPO3camp will take place in Vienna.

New edition of the TYPO3 CertiFUNcation Day at Phantasialand

After the great success of the first TYPO3 Alumni #CertiFUNcation Day last year, there will be a new edition of the event on June 3, 2016 at Europe's largest amusement park Phantasialand in Brühl near Cologne.

Miscellaneous

GitKraken

A new Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Comma-separated lists with CSS

An HTML list is usually displayed one below the other and with bullet points. However, it is often desirable to have a horizontal display in which the individual list elements are next to each other and separated by commas.

Almost complete guide to flexbox (without flexbox)

Although the CSS property flexbox is already well supported by current browsers, the fallback methods shown here can be helpful if older browsers also need to be taken into account.

Moving from HTML Grid Systems to CSS Grid Systems

This article describes how to migrate from HTML grid systems such as Bootstrap to CSS grid systems such as Susy.

What every browser knows about you

Curious about what your browser knows about you? Then simply visit this website.

Presentation Design: 15 Ways to Deliver the Perfect Message

Giving presentations and speeches without boring the audience to death is not that easy. Here are some useful tips.
 

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