If you have a content element in typo3 with a header value containing “special chars” like romanian “diacritics” the header will be rendered like sh… – because the “special chars” are transformed using the &#xxx;-syntax, after which the & is transformed into &. The result looks like: &#xxx;

To get rid of this write in the setup part of your template:
lib.stdheader.10.setCurrent.htmlSpecialChars = 0

On a shared host we have some typo3-based sites where we use indexed search.

The table index_rel grows very fast, having over 6.000.000 entries. Even a simple search takes over 30 seconds to complete.
I searched for an elegant solution with very little success.

Here is a brute force solution: a ruby-script that search for databases that have a index_rel-table, truncates the “indexed search tables” if they reach a given size. The table will be automatically refilled every time a page is accessed, even by bots….

The script truncates the “cache tables” also, the “indexed search tables” will not be rebuild if only the cache for a given page is returned by a request.

If you do not have a single user that has access to all the databases, you should configure usernames/passwords per database.

Needs to be said: you do not necessarily need to clear ALL CACHES after editing or adding a news – but it’s for sure the simplest solution
🙂

1. In the TSRef-Section of the Sysfolder/Page containing the news add:
TCEMAIN.clearCacheCmd = all

2. In the TSRef-Section(Options-Tab) of the User add:
options.clearCache.all = 1

And it works – tested on typo3 4.2.8