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When writing your own Typo3 extension you may come to the day where you need to enter some free HTML content. This content may also include some links. No Problem so far. But if you save the stuff to the db Typo3 transforms the text. For example all a-Tags are written as <link XX>Test</link> and so on.
So when you like to render the text you need to revert the transformation. (At this point it doesn’t matter if you are using FlexForms or the traditional TCA configuration).
All you need to do is to call this method and everything goes fine:
[sourcecode lang=“php“]$outputText=$this->pi_RTEcssText($dbtext);[/sourcecode]

When you try to write your own front end (FE) extensions with Typo3 there are common pitfalls. First of all be sure you enabled your table to hold the information. (Can be done very easy via the kickstarter). Next be sure you don’t query do much information of your table. All you need are the row where „sys_language_uid=0″. Your translation is made via the getRecordOverlay ! This short code snippet may help you to resolve your problems:

[sourcecode lang=“php“]
function readDBData( $table, $where )
{
$back = array();

if ( $where!=““ )
$where.= “ AND „;
$where .= “ deleted=0 AND hidden = 0 AND sys_language_uid=0″;

$res = $GLOBALS[‚TYPO3_DB‘]->exec_SELECTquery( ‚*‘, $table, $where );
while ($row = $GLOBALS[‚TYPO3_DB‘]->sql_fetch_assoc($res))
{
if ($GLOBALS[‚TSFE‘]->sys_language_content)
{
$OLmode = ($this->sys_language_mode == ’strict‘?’hideNonTranslated‘:“);
$row = $GLOBALS[‚TSFE‘]->sys_page->getRecordOverlay( $table, $row, $GLOBALS[‚TSFE‘]->sys_language_content, $OLmode);
}
$back[] = $row;
}

return $back;
}
[/sourcecode]

PS: Keep in mind this tip, too: Web List: ‚Localize-to-feature‘

When using RealURL in multi language environment sending an real 404 is sometimes not so easy. Some I just want to give you some hints:

First of all enable the pageNotFound_handling of Typo3.

• open the file typo3conf/localconf.php
• add these lines
  
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS["FE"]["pageNotFound_handling"] = 'http://www.my-domain.com/en/not-found.html';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS["FE"]["pageNotFound_handling_statheader"] = 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found';


Now you need to check your RealURL config:

• Be sure you that you have not set postVarSet_failureMode OR set it to postVarSet_failureMode=''
• Also be sure you have defined 'noMatch'=>'bypass' for every single preVars section!

That’s all 🙂 Now you get the your wonderful 404 file not found page every time when a wrong page is hit.