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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

Customizing the Rich-Text Editor (RTE)


Up until version 3.8.x, RTE (Rich-Text Editor) was the standard tool for entering and designing content. With TYPO3 4.0 it was replaced by the HMTLArea RTE. A lot of users are still working with older TYPO3 versions, which is why we will take a look at the configuration of RTE.

We are not going to explain how to use this editor, only how to customize it, for which there are numerous options.

RTE can be configured on three levels:

  • Page level: RTE can be equipped differently for different elements of a website. You can, for instance, prevent the use of complicated formatting in a particular area of the website.

  • Content level: The use of available elements depends on the content being displayed. If you want to make sure that no colors are used when the content type is Text, you can disable the color selector.

  • Access-right level: The configuration depends on which user is working with RTE. If an editor, for instance, uses too much formatting in text areas...