[TYPO3-dev] typolink advice, TYPO3-dev -- List for Core search problem

[Franz Koch]

Hi Evgeniy;

> Just a small question, how can I make this extention work. Could you be 
> so kind to give me a step by step hint?

Depends on what extension you want to use. Normally you simply download 
the extension with the extension manager. Then you switch to the 
template module, open your main template or an extension template that 
is included in the main templage (click on "edit whole template 
record"). Then scroll down to the field "Include static (from 
extension)". If there is a static template from the installed extension, 
include it (simply click on it and it will switch to the left column) - 
if there is no static template - you don't have to do anything here.

Then switch to the mode "Constant Editor" in the template module and 
check if there are new options to setup inserted by the extension. If 
not a last possibility to check for possible configuration is to select 
your main template and switch the mode to "template analyzer". If in the 
listed template-structure is one named with the extension key, click on 
it and you will see it's constants and typoscript settings below. If so, 
you can copy the values you want to change, paste it into a template and 
edit them.

It also helps a lot the check the manual of extensions. In most cases 
there is a short installation guide.


> How should I place a reference 
> in the text element? How can I configure the extention on the page? What 
> if I need two different images for internal links? How then link will be 
> processed by the extention? Excuse me my lack of experience.

Normaly, the mentioned extensions parse the website output and add their 
styling automatically, so you don't have to do anything here when 
editing content.
2 different styles might be a problem - but I didn't try it yet. In that 
case the RTE might be more suiteable.



> What the new RTE do you mean? Should I update any extention ot version 
> of the typo3? (I use 3.8.0) because it seems to me that RTE is much 
> intuitive for the ordinary user.


If you are using the RTE 'htmlarea' (extension key: rtehtmlarea) in your 
3.8.0, then you might allready have this functionality. Please have a 
look at the documentation of the extension rtehtmlarea (which is really 
good) to see how you can modify the classes, add new classes and so on.

But you should at least upgrade your typo3 to 3.8.1 (if possible) as 
there where major security issues in 3.8.0 as much as I know.


-- 
Kind regards,
Franz Koch