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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

The Admin Panel


Normally the Admin Panel only plays a role in front-end editing. With it, an authorized user can directly edit the website. You can activate it by entering the following lines in the Setup field of the template:

config.admPanel = 1

The Admin Panel is subsequently displayed in the front end.

You can use the installation tool to set which interface is made available after logging in. Call up Tools | Install and open All configuration. By default, under [Interfaces] you will now see backend. If you enter "backend, frontend" in this field you will get a menu after login that allows you to choose whether you want to edit the back end or the front end.

If you don't like the terms Username, Password, etc., you can customize them. The settings for these are found under All configuration. Look for [login labels] and enter your terms.

Categories

The Admin Panel is divided into six categories. There is a back-end option behind each one of these categories. These areas can be opened by...