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    Re: Install : Accept license

    Try setting the permissions on /system/tmp/ and /system/logs to CHMOD 777. This resolved a similar issue I had when using the safe mode hack.
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    Re: 2.9RC1 Theme Config Question

    I actually do the exact opposite - I create a directory "uploads" within tl_files and then set their user group's filemount to this new directory. It lets me keep tl_files as the default, without...
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    Re: Help needed by install Contao

    Try setting the permissions on the /system/logs and /system/tmp to directories to 777. That solved a similar problem I was having with 2.9RC1.
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    Re: 2.9RC1 Theme Config Question

    Yeah, I will start doing that on projects going forward too. 99% of sites will probably just have 1, but no reason not to do this for consistency.
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    Re: Backend user registration

    Welcome to the forum!

    The Contao back-end is typically reserved for trusted users or employees, which are usually vetted or approved by an administrator. Do you want to allow anyone with an...
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    2.9RC1 Theme Config Question

    I installed 2.9RC1 this morning and want to make sure I'm understanding the concept of Themes correctly.

    When creating/editing a new theme, I see Configuration options for "Folders", "Templates",...
  7. Re: How does an installation determine it's version?

    Well I got it fixed up by going through typolight-check.php and manually replacing all the corrupted files with clean ones from a 2.8.3 installer. Seems to have resolved any problems across the...
  8. Re: How does an installation determine it's version?

    I ran the new TL check tool and about 15-20 files (including constants.php) are listed as corrupted.

    When upgrading from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 I simply synced the directories to update the changed files....
  9. How does an installation determine it's version?

    I just upgraded a site from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 this morning. Updating my development copy went exactly as expected; pushed the changes to SVN and then to the prod server.

    All of the files seem to...
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    Re: Arrange article in 3 columns

    You may want to look at the subcolumns extension in the repository:
    http://www.typolight.org/extension-list ... 29.en.html
  11. Re: FAQ answers not showing and redirects to the home page

    I had a similar situation a couple of weeks ago, this solution sounds like it would work in my case as well. Thanks!
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    Re: Moving a Typolight Installation

    His link was simply an example URL; there is no actual site at that address. Once your site is correctly set up, adding "/typolight" to the end of the URL will bring you to the TL backend.
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    Re: Alternative download

    I normally export the version I need directly from SVN: http://svn.typolight.org/tags/typolight-2.8.0/
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    Re: mediabox script

    I'm not too familiar with the mediabox script itself (I prefer http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/ as a jQuery guy) but the general approach should be the same...

    Edit the page under Site Structure...
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    Re: Unable to create new article

    To piggy-back on Ben's post - although all users must login to the admin panel to make site updates, they do not have to be full administrative users.

    TL has a flexible permission system that can...
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    Re: Unable to create new article

    Have you created any pages under "Site Structure" yet? You will need at least 1 page on which to create an article.
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    Re: Avoiding box model problem

    Agreed, Vera! By hand-coding everything first it's much easier to make sure you don't have any CSS implementation issues when it comes time to port the templates over into TL.

    I haven't looked...
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    Re: Page Renders wrong in IE6

    IE6 actually computes the box model (the 7 parts that determine width, as Vera mentioned) differently than anything else.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_E ... _model_bug

    There are quite a...
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    Re: Horizontal menu difference IE and Firefox

    Might also try giving the UL "position: relative" That seems to be a magic bullet for many IE6 issues.
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    Re: Forms sending with different sender

    I found this in line 394 of system/libraries/Email.php:



    // Add the administrator e-mail as default sender
    if (!strlen($this->strSender))
    {
    $this->strSender =...
  21. Re: News menu works with news_short but doesn´t with news_full

    Thanks Ben I was just looking for examples of News setups yesterday. I've got a potential project with 5 separate news archives (company, PR, etc etc.) that should be kept separated from each other,...
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    Re: Handling multi level pages in typolight.

    That's how I would go about it too. Create the page hierarchy in Site Structure, with 1 or more articles per page.

    I believe this will also make your navigation module flexible enough to use at...
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    Re: English Translation

    I actually did this late last year! I sent it to Christian but didn't get a response.
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    Re: Calendar too wide

    Set the width of the TDs via a class. That will force the content of each TD to wrap as needed.

    Generally though, tables only expand to take up the maximum provided width. If your calendar was...
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    Re: Single page FAQ

    Closest I've come so far is a single page with multiple articles (each article contains question + answer), with an Article List module at the top. So far this accomplishes what I need - although...
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    Single page FAQ

    Picture is worth a thousand words, right? Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2470704/tl-faq.png

    Is this possible using the built-in FAQ List/Reader modules?
    ...
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    Re: Styling a default form

    Every browser has it's own customized set of CSS rules. Use a reset stylesheet to set them all up the same way.

    Consistent cross-browser styling is futile without one!
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    Re: Typolight 2.8 Release date?

    I spent forever looking for an accessible SVN repository and couldn't find it. Thanks!!!
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    Re: The CSS-files are lost

    TL was deleting a file of mine (images.xml) until I added the code I mentioned to localconfig. Someone pointed it out on the forum; don't remember who it was.

    I believe the justification for...
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    Re: The CSS-files are lost

    You can add this to localconfig.php


    $GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['rootFiles'][] = 'filename.css';

    I normally keep all of my CSS, JS, etc, in a subdirectory within /templates to avoid this problem.
  31. Re: Page type = External redirect, and Google Tracking

    Sure, that's even easier. Since jQuery works with CSS selectors you could target links in dozens of ways. Each of the following code blocks should be placed in a document.ready function like above:...
  32. Re: Page type = External redirect, and Google Tracking

    Not sure if it's the best way - I'm not familiar with how TL handles injection of one-off code into a template - but it would be pretty easy with a bit of jQuery.



    $(document).ready(function()...
  33. Re: Separating Page title from main content template

    I'm a bit confused as well so if I've misinterpreted please excuse me. :)

    Sounds like you could add a custom section (Settings > Global configuration > Custom layout sections), and make sure that...
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    Re: The best way to handle duplicate content?

    Take a look at the inserttags extension: http://www.typolight.org/extension-list ... 09.en.html
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    Re: Inserting Google maps

    You may have to insert it as an HTML content element instead of a text element. I'm not sure how TL might parse a URL string like that.

    Also, take a look under Settings > Security Settings >...
  36. Re: Questions about General Workflow, Creating Templates

    Afraid I don't have time to answer all of your questions right now but I will definitely hit this one:


    Look under /system/modules/frontend/templates/fe_page.tpl This is the file that you can...
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    Re: Host Transfer

    I do the same thing as Ben - export the DB and FTP all of the files over. I find this to be a lot quicker and less error-prone than using the BackupDB extension which requires manual re-installation...
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    Re: can not delete templates

    If you're having trouble it's probably a permissions issue. TL requires Apache to own the files (instead of your individual account) so make sure you're either using the Safe Mode Hack or have the...
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    Re: Adding members to newsletter

    Seems like the newslettergroups extension is exactly what you need!

    I haven't used it personally; maybe someone else can provide more details?
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    Re: Help requested

    Every single thing you've listed is possible with TL! Either natively or with an extension I've seen (and my extension knowledge isn't that great yet).

    I'd suggest watching "How to use a custom...
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    Re: Is typolight compatible wit...

    There's no compatibility between the two. Aside from a similarity in name there's nothing in common with the two platforms.

    You can blame Leo for TL being infinitely better. ;)
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    Re: Stepping into templates

    A page template is the foundational markup on which a page layout is based (fe_page.tpl is the standard one).

    For many situations, you won't need to worry about templates since the page layout...
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    Re: 10,000 users requires 240mb memory limit

    I think your idea, or any of the possible solutions I mentioned in my post would all be pretty good additions!

    You could make a feature request at http://dev.typolight.org/.
  44. Re: Automatically gzip css and js files to speed up download

    Just to provide another resource, I have been using Front End Blender to accomplish the compilation/compression of CSS/JS assets: http://github.com/front-end/front-end-blender

    Since it's run from...
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    Re: navigation 'how to' ?

    The navigation module will definitely do everything you've asked, but you're right it is a little tricky to set up.

    I found a how-to on the wiki but it's in German:...
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    Re: 10,000 users requires 240mb memory limit

    Users are always dumb - it's your job to make sure that doesn't negatively effect their experience with the website. :)

    Could you possibly provide a default filter, in the event all others are...
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    Re: CSS: file or backend?

    Jean-Marie,

    When I start a new project (on my local machine), I will import the project into my Subversion repository and then check it out from there as a "working copy." SVN will let you make...
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    Re: CSS: file or backend?

    Depends on the project! I'm most comfortable with Subversion, but on some projects the developers prefer Git. As a User Experience guy (read: not much of a developer) Git kind of confuses me....
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    Re: Limiting caption width to photo width

    Great! Glad you got it sorted. I like Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA. ;)

    There's no specific reason why this needs to be done in jQuery in case anyone familiar with mootools feels like redoing it....
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    Re: CSS: file or backend?

    I work the same way as qrczak. I prefer to manage the files directly on the FTP server and keep them under version control. They're linked to explicitly in my templates and I don't use the...
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    Re: error trying to activate installation

    I had the same problem as you a week or two ago. See my post below for info on how I was able to get it working:

    viewtopic.php?f=6&t=690#p2827
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    Re: Limiting caption width to photo width

    You can actually use both libraries simultaneously thanks to jQuery's noConflict function. http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery.noConflict

    Just add $j = jQuery.noConflict(); above the code I wrote...
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    Re: Limiting caption width to photo width

    I was able to get it working with display: table rules in the CSS, but that's not clean and no better than using a table in the markup which isn't correct in this case.

    You're probably right......
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    Re: Form Generator 3rd party integration?

    Thanks Ben, I've added it as feature #1158.
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    Form Generator 3rd party integration?

    I built a very simple form using the default form generator and was wondering if TL has an option to change the form's action? For example, a form on subscribe.html could have an action of...
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    Re: creating "wicked clean" urls

    This is very helpful, thanks everyone.

    Now if there were only an easier way to echo the page structure (like domain.com/people/mark/)... I haven't had any luck with the folderurl extension!
  57. Re: Installation stalls after asking for new password

    Got it working after all!

    I managed to dig this up on the wiki and followed it exactly. http://dev.typolight.org/wiki/1/TutorialsChecklist

    I'm not using the safe mode hack as my FTP server...
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    Re: Slideshowpro integration

    Thanks for the info ramjet!

    In case anyone is interested, here's how I managed to work it out using the module approach (my preferred one).

    Used the Flash version of SSP instead of the...
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    Re: How do you create a new module position??

    Assuming you mean custom positions aside from "Left Column", "Main Column", etc?


    In System > Settings there is an input field for 'custom layout sections.' You can specify as many as needed....
  60. Re: Installation stalls after asking for new password

    Any solutions for this? I am running into this problem today as well. Safe mode is enabled, and TL check says it's necessary.


    Operating system Linux Linux[removed] 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu...
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