Many of the following settings can be configured using the constants editor:
General settings
Property: | Data type: | Description: | Default: |
|---|---|---|---|
title | string | Your blogs name | timtab |
tagline | string | A short description for your blog | Blogging with TYPO3 |
homepage | string | The URL to your blog | |
homePid | int+ | The pid of your homepage | |
blogPid | int+ | The pid where your tt_news SINGLE view of your tt_news plugin resides | |
clearPageCacheOnUpdate | int | A comma separated list of page ids to clear the FE cache after a post or a comment has been created or modified | |
Settings for the category menu: (plugin.tx_timtab.displayCatMenu) | |||
wrap | wrap | This wrap is required | <ul>|</ul> |
targetPid | Int+ | Pid for the category links to point to. Set this to make the category menu work! | |
sortBy | string | A tt_news table field to sort by | title |
sortOrder | string | The sorting order: ASC for ascending, DESC for descending | ASC |
hideEmpty | boolean | Hides categories with no posts when set | 1 |
list | boolean | Wraps the output in an <ul> unordered list if set | 1 |
showLatestDate | boolean | Shows the date of the latest post in the current category after the title | 0 |
catLatestDate.strftime | string | Formatting for the date, see http://www.php.net/strftime for options | %d.%m.%G |
showCount | boolean | Shows the number of posts in the current category | 1 |
useDescForTitle | boolean | Use the category description for thelink's title attribute | 1 |
hierarchical | boolean | Whether to render a hierarchical tree list or not | 0 |
[tsref:plugin.tx_timtab]
Gravatar settings
Property: | Data type: | Description: | Default: |
|---|---|---|---|
rating | string | Rating defines what kind of gravatars you might want to block for your site. Possible values are: G, PG, R and X. 0 means no rating. G is suitable for display on all sites. PG may contain disputably offensive imagery R things as harsh profanity, intense violence, explicit sexual content, and drug use X may contain hardcore sexual imagery or extremely disturbing violence see http://www.gravatar.com/rating.php | 0 |
defaultImg | string | Set this to an URL to an image you want as default image if the person who comments doesn't have a gravatar. You can set it to http://www.yourdomain.com/clear.gif for example. | |
border | string | Draws a 1px border around the gravatar. Defines the color as HEX color: FF0000 | |
class | string | The css class assigned to the gravatar | |
size | int+ | Defines the size of the displayed gravatar in pixels. Maximum vlaue is 80. | 60 |
[tsref:plugin.tx_timtab.gravatar]
Blogroll settings
Property: | Data type: | Description: | Default: |
|---|---|---|---|
header_stdWrap | ->stdWrap | StdWrap for the header | |
dontWrapInDiv | boolean | If set to 1 the plugin won't be wrapped in a <div>. Comes in handy when integrating the plugin in an <ul> unordered list. | 0 |
pid_list | int+ | Pid to take the blogroll links from when inserting the plugin into your site via TypoScript. | |
listClass | string | Adds a css class to the <ul> tag of the blogroll |
[tsref:plugin.tx_timtab_pi1]
Webservice (XML-RPC) settings
All of these settings ar configurable with the Constants editor.
Property: | Data type: | Description: | Default: |
|---|---|---|---|
pidStorePosts | int+ | The page or sysfolder where your posts from external tools will be saved to. | |
pidStoreComments | int+ | The page or sysfolder where your comments and trackback pings will be saved to. | |
connectionTimeout | int+ | Timeout for XML-RPC Server connections in seconds. | 30 |
enableBlogger | boolean | Enable blogging with external tools which are capable of using the Blogger API. | |
enableMetaweblog | boolean | Enable blogging with external tools which are capable of using the MetaWeblog API. | |
strictAPI | boolean | Force the XML-RPC Server to be API compliant instead of behaving the more common way. You might want to set this to 1 if you encounter problems with your blog tool especially with categories. | 0 |
[tsref:plugin.tx_timtab_pi2]
Calendar settings
Property: | Data type: | Description: | Default: |
|---|---|---|---|
header_stdWrap | ->stdWrap | StdWrap for the header | |
dontWrapInDiv | boolean | If set to 1 the plugin won't be wrapped in a <div>. Comes in handy when integrating the plugin in an <ul> unordered list. | 0 |
pid_list | int+ | Pid to take the posts from when inserting the plugin into your site via TypoScript. | |
targetPid | int+ | Pid where you want the links to point to. Set this to make the calendar work! | |
week_begins | int | Determines the day with that the week starts. = = Sunday, 1 = Monday | 1 |
gmt_offset | int | GMT Offset in hours | 0 |
weedayNameLength | int+ | Length of the name of the weekday in the table header | 1 |
[tsref:plugin.tx_timtab_pi3]
Tmtab offers you to use some new markers in your tt_news and ve_guestbook templates. Amoung them are markers for inserting the gravatar images or showing the number of comments a post got so far.
Markers for use in tt_news templates
Marker: | Description: |
|---|---|
###BLOG_COMMENTS_COUNT### | Displays the number of comments a post got so far. If there are no comments yet instead of displaying a 0 it stays empty. |
###BLOG_TEXT_COMMENTS### | If there are no comments it says “No comments”, if there is one comment it says “comment” in singular. For any other case with more than one comment it's he plural “comments” Usaually you will use this marker in conjunction with BLOG_COMMENTS_COUNT in front of it. |
###BLOG_TRACKBACK_RDF### | This produces a piece of RDF code encapsulated in an HTML comment. It is not visually visible but can be found by other blog systems who will determine the URL to send trackback pings to through this. This marker should be used in tt_news SINGLE view only. |
###BLOG_TRACKBACK_URL### | The Trackback URL. This can be used in <a> anchor tags. |
###BLOG_TRACKBACK_LINK### | Links the word “trackback” to the Trackback URL for the current post. This marker should be used in tt_news SINGLE view only. |
###BLOG_POST_TITLE### | Produces the Permalink to the post with <A> tag attribute rel=”bookmark” and links to SINGLE view. This marker should be used in tt_news SINGLE view only. |
Markers for use in ve_guestbook templates
Marker: | Description: |
|---|---|
###BLOG_FORM_REQUIRED### | By default gets replaced by “(required)” and is supposed to be placed after the required form fields. |
###BLOG_NOT_PUBLISHED### | Default is “(will not be published)” and is supposed to be put after the email field if it is required. |
###BLOG_LEAVE_REPLY### | By default it is replaced by “Leave a reply”. |
###BLOG_NAME### | Replaced by “Name”. |
###BLOG_MAIL### | Replaced by “Mail”. |
###BLOG_HOMEPAGE### | Replaced by “Website”. |
###BLOG_COMMENTS_COUNT### | Gets replaced by the number of comments for the current post. |
###BLOG_TEXT_COMMENTS### | If there are no comments it says “No comments”, if there is one comment it says “comment” in singular. For any other case with more than one comment it's he plural “comments” Usaually you will use this marker in conjunction with BLOG_COMMENTS_COUNT in front of it. |
###BLOG_RESPONSES### | Is either singular or plural of “response” reagrding the number of response a post got. |
###BLOG_POST_TITLE### | Is the title of the current post. |
###BLOG_COMMENT_GRAVATAR### | Adds the gravatar image to the comment if any is returned otherwise the configured default image is displayed. |
###BLOG_COMMENTER_NAME### | The name of the person who left the comment. |
###BLOG_COMMENT_NUM### | Gives the comment a number starting with 1 for the first increasing by 1 for each comment. That makes it possible to give each comment an anchor or just displaying it to the visitors. |
###BLOG_REMEMBER_YES### | Will be replaced by “yes” and should be placed besides the radio button for remembering the visitors informaton. |
###BLOG_REMEMBER_NO### | Is equivalent to the previous marker but displaying “no”. |
###BLOG_REMEMBER_VISITOR### | The label for the radio buttons to remember the visitors information. If he checks yes the name, email and homepage will be saved in a cookie. The cookie has a lifetime of 90 days. So if the visitor comes back within these 90 days he doesn't have to type in his information again and can just start commenting right away. |
###BLOG_TRACKBACK_URL### | The Trackback URL. This can be used in <a> anchor tags. |