If you are re-visiting, you may have noticed. I've updated my blog! I've did quite some design, as well as technical changes. And I'm also planning to actually start writing some nice new articles for you guys (and perhaps gals).

Ever wondered how to create nice warnings, errors and notices in your own TYPO3 back-end modules and extensions? The way TYPO3 itself does this?

I'm working currently on a project, where I wanted to display a nice notice above the form when editing a content record. Now I could have done some hooking and marker overwriting.. but why not just use something that already exists? :-) If you have used 4.3.x already you've probably seen something similar around.

I will use an example extension that I have created prior to writing this article. It's allows you to clear RealURL's cache quickly, through the "Clear cache" menu. Which might be useful for testing or reconfiguring.

A while back we a colleague of mine discover this sweet extension in the TER, after experimenting with it a little we discovered that it was actually quite cool and very useful! Basically, it allows you to reset and rearrange any TCA settings with TypoScript through Page TSconfig.

In my daily line of work I develop TYPO3 websites. Creating a website usually involves grabbing something from the TER, now because some customers have very... let's say 'exclusive' wishes ;-) what we find is not always what we really need. Most of the times we have some overkill features, or worse.. missing features.