EXT: ast_countdown¶

Table of Contents¶

EXT: My Extension 1

Introduction 1

What does it do? 1

Screenshots 1

Users manual 1

FAQ 1

Adminstration 1

FAQ 2

Configuration 2

FAQ 2

Reference 2

Tutorial 2

Known problems 2

To-Do list 2

Changelog 2

Introduction¶

Users manual¶

Just install the extension and select “new content element -> plugin” at any page you want the plugin to be shown. Select “AST Countdown”. The Flexforms will show you two tabs for setting up the plugin:

First tab “Display and Date”:

• The date to count down : Just a put in the date/ time you want

• Day digit length: If you want to show three digits for the days instead of two (default)

• Headline: The headline above the countdown. You can use HTML tags for better formating. See screenshot or Typoscript reference.

  Second tab “Alternative digits”:

• Digit path: Enter the path to your alternative digit images. Set it absolute!

• Digit width: Enter the width of your digits.

• Digit height: Enter the height of your digits.

• Attention: The digits must be namend form c0.gif up to c9.gif. The seperators between days, hours and mintues are named as followed: ctd.gif (days), cth.gif (hours) and ctm.gif (minutes). By default, these three images don't differ, but feel free to seperate the digits by your own style ... :)

Adminstration¶

- See configuration

Configuration¶

- For showing the countdown only at one page, the Flexforms setup is the right way, but when you want to include the countdown in the whole site, you should pay attention at this section! Doing this job you can use Typoscript like in the example below. Please have a look into the TYPO3 Typoscript documentation, if you have problems understanding the stuff!

temp.vMenu = COBJ_ARRAY
temp.vMenu {
        10 < temp.mainMenu
        20 < plugin.tx_astcountdown_pi1
        20.cHead = <h4>Countdown</h4><p>Only <em>days : hours : mins : secs</em> up to the event!</p>
        20.cDate >
        20.cDate = 2007,8,28,8,0,0
        20.cDayLen = 3
        [...]
}

Known problems¶

- IMPORTANT: You sould only use one way to configure the extension, NOT Flexforms AND Typoscript at once! Until now, I did not remove the Typoscript. I only added the Flexforms support and forced the extension to use these settings before all other.

To-Do list¶

- Nothing, or not?

Changelog¶

• V 1.0.0: Initial release
• V 1.0.2: Bugfix release
• V 1.1.0: Added support for three digits for the days
• V 1.2.0: Added flexforms support for the plugin
• V 1.2.1: Some cosmetic changes
• V 1.2.2: Some cosmetic changes
• V 1.2.3: Added support for seperate digits seperator between days,hours and mintues.Also added a new extension icon.

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