TYPO3 Newsletter - March 2021

The nomination phase for the upcoming elections to the TYPO3 Association Board and Business Control Committee (BCC) ended a couple of days ago and we're happy to present the candidates. Thank you to everyone who has agreed to run for office!

Be part of an important moment in the democratic life of the TYPO3 project. The next TYPO3 General Assembly will be held on April 13, 2021. Due to the Corona situation, this year again the General Assembly will be a full online event.

Welcome to the TYPO3 Interview Series - 16!

We have Rachel Foucard with us this week for interesting TYPO3 Talk! Rachel is TYPO3 Association Board member, TYPO3France committee leader, and CTO at wseils.

TYPO3 talk with Rachel is interesting, so grab the cup of coffee to explore Rachels's insights about her views, history and potential of TYPO3 and open-source community, and how we can build a better TYPO3 Eco-system together!

Every year we are re-evaluating the Core Mergers positions, and open up for new people to join the efforts of driving TYPO3 Core's development further. And 2021 could be your year to join?

TYPO3 CMS! The brand and community we love! Are you a true TYPO3 fanatic? Examine your TYPO3 awareness about the TYPO3 Association test. How much do you know about it?

The TYPO3 Documentation Team is continuously working on improving the TYPO3 documentation-keeping it up to date, finding new and better ways to document and-equally important-removing outdated information.

When this years' budget application process started, a special interest group was formed to integrate the wiki information that was still used and to disable and remove the wiki in favor of the official documentation. The members of the TYPO3 association decided to grant us that budget and we started our work.

In 2020-we, as the Marketing Team-decided and announced that we wanted to focus on creating a variety of fact and figure-based materials, which should help agencies sell TYPO3 better. Our biggest project was to create the Comparison Cards, comparing TYPO3 to the most popular alternatives on the market.

Why a local development environment makes sense. Guest article by Benni Mack, part 1.

Are you looking to make lightning faster at the speed of your TYPO3 site (as well as security)? You should consider TYPO3 CDN integration like Cloudflare, Akamai, custom CDN, etc.; In this blog post, I'm going to share the most popular TYPO3 CDN extensions - easy to install & use.

Why a local development environment makes sense. Guest article by Benni Mack, part 2.

The TYPO3 form framework offers many possibilities and is easy to extend. Here I present a simple way how an individual finisher can influence the following.

TYPO3 Fluid - A fast & secure template engine of TYPO3 CMS. No matter, if you are a TYPO3 developer or TYPO3 integrator; You must have expertise in TYPO3 fluid. Are you looking for essential advanced level TYPO3 Fluid skills? You landed at the right place; here we go!

A new CSS class in the form template - added with a custom select field in the TYPO3 backend. Implementation with a few lines of YAML configuration.

You may have already heard about multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is sometimes also referenced as 2FA-two-factor authentication. The idea is having multiple-additional-factors for authentication. So, no longer only the common username + password combination. While this idea is not new, the initial RFC dates back to December 2005, it took some time until systems were implementing the specification. TYPO3 now joins in by introducing MFA with version 11.1, even though extensions exist providing specific MFA solutions for prior TYPO3 releases.

Are you looking to get knowledge of the TYPO3 scheduler? You landed at the right place; In this blog post, you will find beginner to advanced level skills on TYPO3 Scheduler tasks, Symfony console commands, and TYPO3 cron jobs, etc.

TypoScript by concept is meant for frontend context only. There is TSconfig for backend as well. Extbase introduced a way to also configure backend modules via TypoScript. Nowadays TypoScript is also used in other context, e.g. scheduler tasks or commands.

I'll explain how the actual TypoScript is loaded, so you understand that part and can use it.

Today we want to take a look at one of the most underrated features in TYPO3: the dashboard. By default, it's the entry point of every TYPO3 installation and displays important information bundled in one view. Dashboard widgets are not information-only but can be interactive. For example, they can contain links letting you navigate directly to a specific backend module.

The "reserve" extension offers the option of reserving time slots for visits to zoos, libraries, stores and much more, for example.

Visitors can reserve a ticket for themselves and possibly other people and then receive one or more QR codes by email. These codes can then be scanned by employees of the event or facility upon entry.

The extension was developed during the first lockdown of the Corona pandemic to regulate access control in a wildlife park, but is now publicly available in the TYPO3 Extension Repository.

In 8 videos we show what the extension can do and how to install and configure it.

The next online meeting will take place on April 6.

The next online meeting will take place on April 13.

The next online meeting will also take place on April 13.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, it's a shame that we cannot meet in person. It's all about health first. Therefore, the provisional TYPO3 Event Committee decided not to realize on-location events this year. Against that background, the TYPO3 Developer Days and the TYPO3 Conference incl. the TYPO3 Award Show had to be postponed to 2022. Instead of having physical events, we work on a virtual online event series - the TYPO3 Online Days 2021.