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Typo3 4.2.6 Setting up Indexed Search

Kevin Harris — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:09:51 +0000

I have been struggling for awhile now to get the indexed search to display results on the frontend. I had the catching working on the pages but no results where ever being displayed. All the documentation I found was dated and shows their being a starting point option to select when you add the plug-in to the content of a page. That was removed back in 2006 according to the change log of the module. Finally

I found the typo script that you need to set to tell the indexed search where to look for search results. It was pretty simple after I figured this out. Place this code in the setup on the template of the page that has the indexed search plug-in.

plugin.tx_indexedsearch.search.rootPidList = 73,27,15,14 #change the numbers to the ids of where to begin searches at

Also wanted to make a note that the search will not search through system folders that are below site pages. You will need to specify those in the list of ids if you have sub-pages in the folders that need to be searched.

Typo3 indexed search setup

TYPO3 4.2.3 Add 3 images with individual links in a row

Kevin Harris — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:36:08 +0000

Select your page and create new page content of type Images only. Once you are on the properties of the content type Images only select the tab called media as shown below.

In the first section, images, you add your images into the box in the order you want them to be displayed. Then in the position section select the number of columns to be the same as the number of images you want to put in a row. Next was the tricky part for me but I finally figured out that in the image links section you can put a comma delimited list of the page ids in typo3 that you want the images to link to or a url if the link is to an external site. The order of the comma delimited list will match the order you have put the images in images section.

The output in your content will look like the following:

A new start, a new blog

Kevin Harris — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:49:13 +0000

I am getting a new start on life, at least that’s the way I am seeing it. In the middle of all the economic chaos God has blessed my wife and I with the ability to be able to sell our house and move closer to the center of the tri cities. On top of this I will be starting a sixteen month MBA program at King College where I work .

Since I won’t be busy enough working full-time and attending the MBA program full-time, I figured why not restart your blog! In reality I thought this would be a great place for me to explain and discuss ideas and theories I will be discovering while attending the business program, but at the same time I don’t want to completely focus on business and economics and leave out my passion for technology, particularly programming and design. You might not think that business and programming go together but they go together like peanut butter and jelly.

I don’t know exactly what business topics we will be discussed yet but as I continue my journey through the MBA I am sure there will be many topics of interest. As for the programming/technology I know I will be posting hints and helpful tips on TYPO3. I am trying to convience the powers to be that this would be a wise system to convert our websites too so I have dove in head first over this christmas break to see how the system works and what it will take to convert our current websites to work in the TYPO3 system.

Please feel free to comment and ask questions on this blog. I will do my best to answer and comment back but as you can see my time might be limited.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.