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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

Overview of this book

Free, open-source, flexible, and scalable, TYPO3 is one of the most powerful PHP content management systems. It is well suited for creating intranets and extranets for the enterprise. While providing an easy-to-use web interface for non-technical authors and editors of content, its messaging and workflow system enable shared authoring and collaboration. TYPO3 provides flexible and powerful interfaces for both content editors and administrators, giving them full control of the core aspects the system. However for developers who need to customize the system, TYPO3 offers a powerful configuration language called TypoScript. Good knowledge of TypoScript is really a prerequisite for implementing complex applications with TYPO3 and gives developers full control over the configuration of TYPO3 and its template engine. TypoScript enables the complete output template to be created and manipulated, giving you full control over the layout of the site. TypoScript also allows you to integrate dynamic contents, JavaScript-based menus, Flash, Graphics, etc. with ease. You have maximum control over the design of the website and can control all options that would otherwise be addressed by HTML-simple text output, formatting, and much more. TypoScript also allows you to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
Credits
About the Author
Preface

SQL Queries


Working with SQL queries gets really interesting when developing extensions. You will learn how to develop your own TYPO3 extensions in Chapter 11. But in anticipation, we are going to foreshadow what this entails.

Let's assume that you are developing your own extension that will list your customers' references in detail on an existing page. The focus in this chapter is on the programming of SQL queries.

In the following sections we will show you the Kickstarter, the extension key, and the importance of the individual fields when building an extension.

Constructing an Extension with Kickstarter

If it has already been installed, you will find the Kickstarter extension in the extension manager in the Menu list box under Make new extension. Chapter 11 will provide you with comprehensive information about this tool and its installation.

Call the KICKSTARTER WIZARD from Make new extension.

Enter user_references into the Enter Extension key field and confirm it by clicking the Update button...