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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

Summary


This chapter covered some quick-and-easy methods of optimizing a TYPO3 project using TypoScript. TYPO3 allows you to create multilingual sites easily and in two different ways—the multiple-tree concept and the one-tree-fits-all-languages concept. Users can manually set their languages via flags or this can be done automatically by reading browser settings.

You can provide PDF versions of your pages via HTMLDoc and the PDF generator extension. You can also allow users to view print-friendly pages by using special templates.

TYPO3 has some advanced search-engine optimization functions, such as the integration of meta tags as well as replacing dynamic URLs with static URLs through Apache's mod_rewrite and the RealURL extension. TYPO3 also provides protection from spam by encrypting email addresses.