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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

The popularity of online shopping has increased drastically over the past few years. TYPO3 is fully equipped to meet all the challenges of modern electronic commerce. TYPO3 can be enlarged afrom a pure content-based online catalog to a fully-grown shop system with a variety of extensions. It may be easy to plan a website but when it comes to implementing the design and developing a successful e-commerce site, you might come across a lot of difficulties.This book teaches all the aspects of quickly setting up a feature-packed, easy-to-build e-commerce site—from basic installation and configuration of TYPO3 through adding features step-by-step to an example website. It demonstrates the setting up of an online TYPO3 e-commerce site from scratch and walks you through lucrative tips on attracting customers and maximizing profit.This book takes you through the creation of an appealing online shop in steps. It starts with the basics of TYPO3 and TYPO3 installation and shows how to use its standard features to begin construction of an online shop. It will help you improve the selling interface and handling of orders with new modules and other customizations. It discusses various template configurations and plugins. You will learn how to build attractive product catalogs, profiles for registered and unregistered users, and online shop SEO. You will also learn to provide effective search facilities for systematic navigation of your site. Further, various modules for payment and delivery will be discussed. Finally, you will learn how to manage and market your site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Inserting a template using TypoScript


We just created our own template and placed the markers. So, the next important step is to add that content from the TYPO3 backend.

You need to choose the section Template, and in the site tree, choose the page where you created the template. Click on the pencil icon near the Setup to open and to edit the TypoScript and to add our template:

Here we will place the markers that we specified in the template. Let's insert the following code. First you have to start with the template configuration that specifies to TYPO3 what should be displayed in the code, and which charset and languages should be be used:

# LANGUAGE setup, here we enter the uID of language (default # language has the value "0"), charset utf-8, the page # language, and the html tag configuration
#-----------------------------------------------------------
config.linkVars = L
config.sys_language_uid = 0
config.metaCharset = utf-8
config.language = en
config.uniqueLinkVars = 1
config.htmlTag_setParams...