EXT: ITS Newsticker¶

What does it do?¶

The extension adds a newsticker to the page. The news are directly taken from the tt_news extension.

You can setup the look directly via flexform. This extension is based on the mj_newsticker from M Jahnke .

This extension is tested under Typo 3 4.0.2 and tt_news 2.4.0

new:

This extension is tested under Typo 3 4.2.0 and tt_news 2.5.2

This extension is tested under Typo 3 4.3.2 and tt_news 3.0.1

Screen-shots¶

Front end view

Plug-in configuration

Use as content element “plugin”¶

The ITS Newsticker is shown in the section “plugins” of content elements.

Just choose it

choose your TT_NEWS sysfolder and your TT_NEWS Single view page

save the page

You should already see the newsticker.

Now you can configure the look of the ticker

At starting point you choose the sysfolder where your news from tt_news are saved.

The hover color is the color what appears when the mouse pointer is over a link of your ticker messages.

The text-color is the normal color of your ticker messages.

The “TT News Single view page” has to point on the folder where your single news view appears.

The max number of messaged is the maximum number of messages are taken from the tt_news sysfolder

Use Border means you can switch on an d off the border of the ticker.

Border width is the Border width in pixel.

In Font type you can select the the font you wish to use.

The font size is the size of the font used by the ticker.

Text background color is the background color of the ticker .

Table width is the width of the table in percent.

On align you can choose between left,right and center.

Configuration¶

Click on edit of your ticker page element

Starting-point¶

Enter the sysfolder where your tt_news are saved.

Recursive¶

Check it if you want to use the news from the sub-folder(s) of your tt_news sysfolder

Sorting field¶

The tt_news field for sorting the news in the ticker

Sorting direction¶

Descending or ascending

hover color¶

Choose the color you want as mouse over color of your ticker messages.

Text color¶

Choose the color you want for the text of your ticker messages.

TT News Single view page¶

Choose the page where your tt_news are normally shown as single view.

max number of messaged¶

The maximum number of messaged are shown in the ticker

multi language support¶

If checked only news from the current website language are shown.

Use full if you have news in more than one language.

use Border¶

If checked the ticker have a border

Border width¶

the Border width in pixel.

Font type¶

The font you wish to use for the ticker

Font size.¶

The size of the font used by the ticker.

Text background¶

Color of the background of the ticker .

Table width¶

Te width of the table in percent.

Table align¶

Choose between left,right and center.

Configuration¶

Times New Roman

Example Configuration for TS Setup¶

lib.footer < plugin.tx_itsnewsticker_pi1

lib.footer.pidList = 31

lib.footer.border_checkbox= 0

lib.footer.font_family = verdana

lib.footer.multilang = 1

lib.footer.sortingdirection= ascending

Lib.footer.NewsSingleView= 15

1.0.8¶

showarchivenews option added

1.0.7¶

News Category Option added

1.0.6¶

Error message “Missing argument 3 for t3lib_ DB::exec_SELECTquery (), …” in /class.tx_itsnewsticker_pi1.php line 96 fixed

1.0.5¶

Max message number bug in multi language environment fixed (thx to Olaf for reporting)

1.0.4¶

Support for TYPO3 4.3 added

1.0.3¶

Manual updated

1.0.2¶

Bug in Opera 10 fixed

1.0.0¶

• Version declared as stable now
• compatibility to TYPO3 4.2.6

0.9.1¶

• Corrupted Links corrected
• Support for TYPO3 4.2.1 added

0.9.0¶

• Debug messages deleted
• Multi-language support added
• sorting function added
• compatibility to TYPO3 4.2 checked

0.1.1¶

• Stop on mouse over was added;
• The documentation was updated
• You can now more than one ticker use on a page
• EXT: ITS Newsticker

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