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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
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Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

What is the TYPO3 Extension Manager?


The TYPO3 extension manager provides a central area in which we can install or uninstall new features for our TYPO3 installation. The extension manager was added to TYPO3 to organize the TYPO3 system core. Now, features that do not make up the core system can be plugged into the system as extensions.

Extensions can be developed by third parties, leaving the core functionality to the core developers, thus allowing anyone to add features that are not available out of the box.

Accessing the Extension Manager

To access the extension manager, we just need to click on Ext Manager from the Tools menu:

When we access the extension manager for the first time, we are presented with the translation handler. This allows us to manage the translations of labels, in the system, and from extensions. To get to the main extension manager interface, we just need to select Install extensions from the drop-down menu. We will cover the other options seen in this menu, throughout...