Sometimes I wonder how far you can actually go in using just TypoScript to achieve your technical challenges. Today I will show how you create a simple page teaser with multilingual support by just using some TypoScript.

This is something really cool I had to create recently for one of my projects. I actually had to create a page teaser, which due to the simplicity of the teaser I decided to do with TypoScript (I will show how to make the teaser in the next post). First I will show how you can get the translated page title without creating any weird constructions.

When using TypoScript we often have to work with objects like TEXT, HTML, COA.. you name it. Some developers store their objects inside lib., others will use temp.. But what's the difference? And when should you use the one, and when the other?

In this article I will explain how to bypass the table restriction that was made for CONTENT objects. This restriction is made for security reasons, however I wonder how useful it is since it's so easy to bypass.

TypoScript can be so useful sometimes! In this example I will display how we can create a nice output of any record in the front-end. And all this without the use of any silly extension.

If you're not aware of the capabilities of TypoScript, you would start looking in the repository for something usable. I immedeatly remember using something simular for getting a content element from a different page, and displaying it. Combining this with a COA_INT, to prevent caching of the element, I was able to do this in under 5 minutes with only 15 lines of TypoScript code (including marker assignment).

The idea for the project was to generate an alphabetical list of products for a tt_products webshop. To make the process list the right products I extended the search a little with a new functionality. However this was not really the challenge! The challenge came with writing the navigation for this. I wanted to do this entirely with TypoScript. And I (we, got a little help from Pim Broens ;-)) did it!