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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

TemplaVoilà


The latest method for creating templates is using TemplaVoilà. This is a new extension that makes it possible for TypoScript developers to integrate templates using a graphical user interface. The purpose of the templates can also be specified here. The biggest advantage of TemplaVoilà is that various layouts can be implemented without any PHP knowledge.

Thanks to TemplaVoilà, an HTML master can be formatted as a template with just a few mouse clicks. And the best part—new content types can be created that are no longer limited by the structure of the database tables. In addition, elements can be nested within each other at will, putting an end to the rigid three-column limitation.

TemplaVoilà also introduces another important new feature: once content is created, it can be reused in multiple locations. This is not a copy and paste procedure, but is handled via a link to the content. All this is realized with XML.

Flexforms are another new feature in TYPO3. They provide another...