[Typo3-linux] some rather major Typo3 problems

[Michael Stucki]

typo3 at atu.cjb.net wrote:
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> The single biggest problem with Typo3: it recommends that you use ancient
> software.  For example it recommends ImageMagick 4.x.x, which is many
> years old and which will not even compile on a modern system.

Read the mail archives to see why this is recommended!

> It also recommends GDlib 1.x.x which is also very old.  The only
> recommended GDlib for use with PHP is the one that comes bundled with that
> distribution, not the external library.  Why would Typo3 software be built
> on such an old and outdated software set ?

You don't have to! But you can...
It's a fact that IM4.x is much faster than its version 5 family. I have a
fast server, so I don't care about that and use the 5.4.4 that is bundled
with my Woody.

> Next problem: Typo3 uses a depreciated function called mysql_create_db().
> Information on this function is at http://ca.php.net/mysql_create_db and
> it states there that mysql_query() should be used instead.  It also states
> that ?This function will not be available if the MySQL extension was built
> against a MySQL 4.x client library.?  I assume this would be my problem
> with PHP 4.x.x, as Apache gives me this error when I try to create a new
> database for use with Typo3:

I don't know much about that, but you may post this story at the dev-list to
address a few more relevant people who care about this:
news://news.netfielders.de/typo3.dev

> Third major problem: ImageMagick.  I have tried four versions of
> ImageMagick and have tried unsuccessfully to install the ancient 4.x.x
> series recommended by the author.  After a ton of fighting with the
> configuration of ImageMagick in Typo3, I was able to get it to load PNG
> images.  It turned out the problem there was that it was adding [1] to the
> end of the PNG filenames, which is not a valid thing to with with PNGs. 

We had the same story with PDF files this one or two days ago on the
english-list! See here and post your comments, please:
http://typo3.org/1422+M53ffdc04990.0.html

> Next ImageMagick problem is with image masks used in some of the
> special effects.  I have tried every possible combination of
> [im_version_5], [im_negate_mask] and [im_imvMaskState].  I was a bit
> disturbed to find out that when you set the [im_negate_mask] it overrides
> the other option.  Irregardless, no combination of those three options
> changes the command lines that are passed on to ImageMagick that appear in
> the forms on the ?3: Image Processing? pages.  The image mask is always!
> inverted, on all versions of ImageMagick and GDlib that I have tried, with
> all available options tried out.

Which IM version did you use for that? I repeat: Regardless of any
recommendation, TYPO3 works great with ImageMagick 5+.

> I deleted the typo3temp/* between each try, as I was unsure if it was
> regenerating the images or not.

AFAIK these images won't be touched as long as you don't delete them. If
they don't exist, TYPO3 will recreate them (right?).

I wish you good luck! But please be so kind and change your mailclient since
the current one breaks threads. I recommend you to use a newsreader
(news://news.netfielders.de/).

Cheers - michael