[TYPO3-ttnews] tt_news support / TYPO 6.x / news extension

[jaco graaff]

Hi Sybille –
My experience with this decision – maybe helpful…
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SUMMARY:
If you move to fluid and Typo3 v6 – AND if it is at all possible at all to 
do without a couple of features of tt_news(old news) (that was contributed 
by 3rd parties and most likely will not be supported in future) – move to 
tx_news(new news – Georg’s news).

If there is no way you can do without those features (tt_news) then make 
very sure they are compatible with Typo3 v6x or stay with previous version.
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I have been quit anxious to move over to tx_news (Georg’s new news extension 
based on fluid) because I have also decided to start to use fluid more than 
templavoila and work towards using Typo3 v6.2 Long Term Support.

Also Georg has always been very active, helpful and passionate about his 
tx_news extension.

External fluid-templates (like external typoscript files) in my favorite 
current editor (PhpStorm) is great from a management of code and ease of 
development point of view once you understand how they work.

I have investigated tx_news about 2 years back:
http://forum.typo3.org/index.php?t=msg&th=123516&goto=383963&#msg_383963
and decided to stay with tt_news(old news) since there where to many 
features I like that was missing in tx_news

The 3 most important features clients always liked and that was missing was:
1.
LATEST-DETAIL on main news-language page WITH older news items visible on 
same page AND Latest not showing in the list view – see the attached png 
file as well as my implementation on:

http://buildinghelp.com.au/general-news/

And
2.
NEXT-PREVIOUS browsers in detail view with names of articles in it.

3. Comments

In OLD-NEWS – tt_news – this was made possible by an extra extension: 
"xw_ttnewslatestsingle"
developed by Christian Juerges

It is unluckily not compatible with typo3 4.6x

So I am a bit stuck.

I recently again tried to fit tx_news into my preferred design:
http://forum.typo3.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=690030&&srch=jaco+graaff#msg_690030
http://forum.typo3.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=690036&&srch=jaco+graaff#msg_690036
http://forum.typo3.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=690059&&srch=jaco+graaff#msg_690059

I have 3 choices:

1.    Spend time to create a new view-helper to try and extend tx_news to 
get the LATEST-DETAIL view and page-browser back.
2.    Try and port the tt_news LATEST-SINGLE capability
3.    Change my Design to work like the default supported behavior
a. Have a fixed-set Detail item in the detail view (The page has to have a 
detail-item parameter else it fails)
b. See a list-view on the News Page – no detail view by default – click on a 
list item: See the detail view with a list view.
OR
c. Allow users to only access the news-detail page from another page (e.g. 
the front page) after clicking on a list-news item displayed on the front 
page.

If your news function front-end is going to work like the default tx_news 
one – then I think it is the obvious choice because of fluid.