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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

Useful Extensions


In the following pages we will introduce some of the most important and useful extensions in real-life scenarios.

News

The news extension should facilitate your introduction to extension administration. It provides the simplest method of publishing new information on your website. News can be displayed with a header, a date, and the first few lines of the news text. You provide an appropriate hyperlink to the complete text. Despite its simple usability, the news extension is nonetheless very complex.

The news extension is no longer a preinstalled section of TYPO3, as was the case in earlier versions, and therefore has to be installed by you. The extension key is tt_news.

In the News page, which you can find in the page tree, you have to set up the following pages:

  • News: This is a page of the SysFolder type. News is selected from Contains plugin. After you set up the News folder, it is identified with a special icon in the page tree.

  • Archive Overview: With this and with the...