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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

MailformPlus


You have seen the power of standard forms. However, there are numerous restrictions and a lot of things can only be done with workarounds. As usual with TYPO3, there is an extension that can make your work with forms a lot easier. The MailformPlus extension can simultaneously send form data to a number of email adresses; you can insert JavaScript code for validation, form fields can be automatically populated with the information of the front-end user, and input fields can be created dynamically. The biggest advantage is that you have the option of using your own HTML forms. If you already own a form that was designed on an HTML/CSS foundation, you are probably reluctant to create it again for TYPO3.

After installing MailformPlus, you can run the first test.

Set up a new content element of the General Plugin type on the page that will be displaying the new form.

Under Plugin select mailformplus. You can, but do not have to, define the heading.

Now generate an HTML form with the...