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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
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Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Installing a Development Platform


Depending on the operating system we are using, there are different processes for installing a development platform on our machine. We can either run an Installer package that will install Apache, MySQL, and PHP, along with TYPO3 (there are installers available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux), or we can install each of these components separately.

Note

The software included in the installer packages may be out of date. You should periodically check for updates to Apache, PHP, and MySQL to see if there have been further releases that fix any known bugs or security problems.

The Windows Installer Package

The Windows installer will install everything that we need to get started. Firstly, we need to download a copy from the TYPO3 website, http://typo3.org/download/installers/. The Version Target OS column shows the operating system for each installer. The installer we want is TYPO3 Winstaller as, at the time of writing, this installer had the most recent...