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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

RTE (Rich Text Editor) extension


RTE is an extension of the TYPO3 system that is added to the TYPO3 package. RTE is a kind of WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") text editor. RTE provides similar functionality to rich text editors like OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Office Word.

We can call extension rtehtmlarea as one of the important extensions in TYPO3. But this extension has some replacements, such as the following:

  • tinyRTE (tinyrte)—Rich Text Editor based on TinyMCE

  • tinymce_rte (tinymce_rte)—Rich Text Editor again based on TinyMCE, but this extension is more advanced and has a newer version. We can say that the general advantage of this text editor is there are more possibilities to manipulate tables that are created using this extension. You can include class, colors, borders, custom column widths, and do other manipulations with tables.

TYPO3 RTE provides functions such as formatting with bold, italic, underline, adding headers, paragraphs, line breaks, or adding images and...