There are a lot of extensions out there which modify the TYPO3 login somehow. Some of them user an LDAP server, some use a X.509 certificate. What I am missing, is the possibilty to use a webservice. Let's assume this webservice already exist, so we won't discuss it here. Weiterlesen »
I've been wondering for some time now, where the problem of the designers is. I mean especially related to free software (I know, it's something else than open source software, but that's not the point here). From me, as programmer, who also uses free software, it is often expected to give something back to the community. Sure, no problem, I share these expectations. So I publish TYPO3 extensions which might ber useful to someone else. Also, I provide free troubleshooting with this blog here and I consciously try to use free software: OpenOffice or NeoOffice, TYPO3, WordPress, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Eclipse, Subversion, Mantis and many more. Weiterlesen »
I just had a strange error in a piece of PHP code. It should query a MySQL database and render an HTML selectbox out of the result. Sadly, the selectbox had exactly one entry less than the table! This entry was unique - it had an umlaut as first character and that was the clue for me: the encoding!
The database table was encoded in latin1_swedish... and the file was utf8. Initially I thought: well, if I use utf8, I'm quite safe but I was wrong - obviously. Then I used Eclipse and saved the file with iso-8859-1 encoding and hurray: it worked!
What I found confusing about this, was the fact that this very sql statement returned the completely correct result when entered in phpMyAdmin! Seems like the file encoding there was correct rightaway.
