Read the tales of success and woe as I learn how to use the gigantic machine that is Typo3 to create the Deafness Portal of my dreams... www.deafhub.com
The errors I was getting with dr_wiki are one less - I had forgotten to include ’static from extension’ in my typoscript template.
:S not so smart.
Also, I haven’t quite worked out my site’s dynamic navigation. The primary navigation works quite fine, but the secondary navigation isn’t working yet - it’s replicating the primary nav.
And I have to work out how to generate a dynamic navigation of the wiki articles…
I found a solution for TIMTAW & TV. In the TV mapping, a field needs to be mapped as a typoscript object path. Then in the typoscript template that lib.myObject needs to be called, similar to Sebastian’s
10.EDIT>marker.editpanel
instead, with a TV mapped lib.myObject,
10.EDIT>lib.myObject
Also, the admin panel (see TSRef document) needs to be activated with
page.AdminPanel = 1
You can set a variety of configurations using the information in TSRef.
Now my only problem is that it doesn’t look terribly nice. It looks like I have to go and configure the whole thing for the front end appearance. I’m not sure if it should be set as a normal text field, or what, and the normal wiki markup doesn’t work, which could cause user confusion.
On the other hand, dr_wiki has all of that built in. If only I could get it to work. Currently I am getting mySql errors. I have found other people with the same error, but they haven’t worked out the problem. Rather they did a fresh install, which fixed it.
I might try the author again.
My last post about wikis said I was trying DR Wiki. Well, I did… and couldn’t get it working. I posted twice to the Typo3 User Group list, and even directly to the author and two other users, but got nowhere.
One user did answer, but said he had not managed to get a positive result, and had neded up using a third party product.
I also tried TIMTAW, and managed to get a login page and initial data entry page to show, but after saving the information, it disappeared from the front end. The record was visible in the back end, but no reference was created, and so it wasnt rendered on the wiki page.
I am trying to nut out dr_wiki with the very little documentation that is
provided.
I have set up the plugin as a content element in templavoila, mapped to a
content area
page = PAGE
page.typeNum = 0
page.10 = USER
page.10.userFunc = tx_templavoila_pi1->main_page
page.20 = USER
page.20.userFunc = tx_drwiki_pi1->main_page
I have looked around for documentation regarding the constants and setup for
dr_wiki, but what I have read hasn’t really helped me understand it.
Guess its time to post to the user group…
First up, I’m creating a wiki. I have decided to use the dr_wiki extension because I want a lot of extensibility and it looks like this extension will suit my needs best.
How does templavoila! deal with an extension like dr_wiki? This is my latest dillemma.
I guess I create a content element and put the wiki in there - but I also want a page header, and I don’t like the wikiwords header that comes up.
Maybe I will revamp my template for this section so that the page header field is left out, leaving only the wikiword header.
But I want spaces in my page title!
And what is the wikiword appearing as? Can I apply typoscript to it to make it a header tag and then CSS to change the appearance?
Or is there a “hidden” tag in typoscript?
Questions, questions…
Having created a Typo3 template, html template and css file that successfully displayed a header banner, top and left dynamic navigation, content area, right hand advertising space and footer, it was time to try something more.
I wanted the page title (defined in the Typo3 page header) to also be the title of the content area, displayed in header tags.
However, before working that out, I found a code snippet on Typo3Wizard for creating breadcrumb navigation, something that was in my list of “things to do” … so, being an opportunist, I dropped working out the page title bit, and played with the breadcrumb nav 
I even applied a bit of guesswork to get it working - wow! I celebrated when I guessed right (I have since altered that snippet to work with templavoila across my whole site! Have a look at the code snippets posts to find the snippet…)
So, anyway, after I got that working, I remembered that some of the extensions might fix my page title problem, so I went back to search through the T3 Extension Repository (TER) … and found some wonderful goodies there! All excited I downloaded several extensions (because I still can’t connect directly to the online TER to upload and install directly), and uploaded them all, installing along the way.
Suddenly I lost everything in the main working frame of the backend - it went completely blank! I tried going back a page, but nothing showed. Now I lost the backend navigation tree too. I tried to login again through /typo3 - nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Somehow the database seemed to have been corrupted or something.
Madly write to User Group - no one answers quickly, they must all be offline. Bugger, bugger. And of course, I didnt backup first, did I? Oh no!
After a couple of hours with no email from the user group, I decided drastic action was required. I would create a fresh installation and start from scratch! Even though there was about 100 hours work to this stage, most was exploratory - it was only 3 or 4 hours of actual redoing.
So I began to ftp a new 3.6 installation up to the server (which takes hours), and then found my host now had version 3.8.1 as an installable application sitting on the server. Bingo! I set up that & started on the install tool.
Then I couldn’t connect to the database. I had this problem back in 2004, but I couldn’t remember how I fixed it. Mmmmmm. Somehow I managed to fix it again, but I have forgotten how :S. Next time I will have to write it down!
This time I installed hte extensions first, just in case it clashed again - and it did, so one by one I uninstalled and finally found out which extension was clashing. Yay! Uninstalled that, and everything worked again
Reinstalled all the other extensions and all was fine.
Redid the work that I had done on version 3.6.4 and found now the breadcrumbs wouldn’t work - bummer, but not critical - I will fix that later.
In the time it had taken to install and setup 3.8.1, my partner and I decided that a wiki would be the best way to deal with some of the portal - it would build the site much faster and hopefully generate a loyal community too.
So I downloaded and installed DR_Wiki extension. The functionality looked great - now I just had to figure out how to integrate it inot my TS template and HTML template.
I searched and found a pdf file written by the extension developer. It was quite helpful, but didn’t address how to insert it into a template.
With all the difficulties I was having in finding information, I decided to start this blog. I bought a domain name, and tried to set up a blog with TIMTAB. But I had so much trouble with that too, so I thought ‘Fine. I will set up with a simple CMS (such as Wordpress), document my struggles, and maybe someone will show me how to set up the TIMTAB blog eventually’
So that’s why a blog about Typo3 is currently not using T3
I am a newbie …
I wondered if Templavoila! might help now, and tried to upload it - but nothing happened. No folder was created, nothing was uploaded.
I searched to find out why, and discovered tha the current version of Templavoila! 1.0.1 needs T3 v 4.x.x to work! :O
Well, I decided it was probably a good idea to have the most current version, as there seemed to be some changes in how things were handled, so last night I upgraded to version 4. Ftp took an hour or so … I went to bed.
So that is the saga of the last three months - I have just 5 weeks to try to get the site live if we are to meet our first deadline. Not sure that we will. Hopefully by blogging my journey, anyone who has had similar issues will comment and suggest solutions, and in doing so can help others new to T3.
Things that are yet to do in this stage:
Vital:
 Hope to work out:
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