[TYPO3-english] ttnews or T3BLOG

[jaco graaff]

jaco: ---------  Hi Georg - thanks for the feedback......  -----------------

"Georg Ringer"  wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1316169961.28017.typo3-english at lists.typo3.org...

Hi Jaco,

thanks for your work.

what should be mentioned is also the framework underneath. With fluid,
you don't need e.g. an extra hook to add many stuffs but you can just
use your viewhelpers.

jaco: ---------  I need to understand more how I can use viewhelpers to 
extend an extension - This is something I need to learn and figure out - I 
have seen all the basic presentations, etc.. but have not actually used 
it -----------------

> NEWS
> I see some good Usability design here to simplify for basic
> editors/clients -

indeed this was very important for me. I needed to look at tt_news in
last week and didn't get it running..the plugin is so filled with things
I don't understand,

jaco: ---------  I think because ttnews has been around such a long time 
there are lots of discussion and examples in the forum on issues which is a 
plus  -----------------

> but not yet so feature rich (social media integration/
> forum integration)

please be fair and compare the basic extension and not some other
extensions which extend tt_news or so.

jaco: ---------  Quite correct - - The excell was thrown together using 
mostly "claimed" features (I did a little check up here and there) - and 
sometimes an extension page like t3blog will claim "versioning"  which is 
actually a part of the typo3 framework - I need to experience the usage 
thereof in typo3 to better qualify it's level of integration with the 
standard versioning system ... -----------------

news got all social buttongs like FB, twitter and so on integrated by
default.

jaco: ---------  Ok good to know - I'm delving into the manual to get a 
better understanding of it's capabilities - I do not want to implement a 
"wordpress" site for my client - although Wordpress is trying to be more 
like a CMS since so many companies are using it now for more than just a 
blog - but I need a CMS-system - and hope that my "blog" sections could just 
be another sub-category of the news/ttnews extension  -----------------

Please also look at the last release in TER.

to the other points of the excel:

- permalinks would be a nice and really simple feature
- tagcloud: tags are available, not yet a tagclout. tt_news e.g. doesn't
got tags


- realurl: works fine
- category icons: can be done
- own markers can be achieved by extending the extension or viewhelpers

jaco: --------- I definitely want to get my hands dirty with viewhelpers & 
fluid  -----------------

- what do you mean with widgetsß

jaco: ---------  Calendar, Tagcloud, Voting, 3rd part extensions available 
in typo3 - I reckon I just add them as any other plugin in a "news" 
section -----------------

- automatic archiving after n days > possible
- cahcing + indexing: default caching
- direct preview: included
- versioning + workspaces: included with support of extbase
- Context sensitive help: included
- xml feed supported

jaco: ---------  Thanks Georg  -----------------

georg