Timezones in TYPO3

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This took me some time to analyze, so I thought I would post it to save time to anyone faced with the same problem. TYPO3 handles timezones, making sure that whatever input it gets is timezone-aware, both server-side, and client-side. Any input in TCEforms that is set to be evaluated as a datetime must be… Read more »

FTP with TYPO3

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TYPO3 has a table for backend users. Those users need to occasionally upload files to the fileadmin directory via FTP. Wouldn’t it be nice to configure the FTP server to pull from the be_users table and authenticate them, so that two separate locations for userdata don’t have to be maintained? It’s possible. This guide documents… Read more »

DAM Skin

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DAM 1.1 has been skinned alive (by me…) More information is in the article published on Forge: http://forge.typo3.org/news/show/79

Optimizing tt_news

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The latest version of tt_news (3.0.0 development) has been said to improve performance. However, it still leaves a lot to be desired. Indexing tables can speed up some queries, but the reason why tt_news is so slow is the number of queries it generates, especially in LIST view. Stepping through the extension with the debugger… Read more »