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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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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.
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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
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Preface

Declarative Programming with TypoScript


The name TypoScript is confusing. TypoScript is not a classical script, let alone a programming language in the usual sense. It cannot even be classified as a descriptive language similar to HTML. What then is TypoScript? To answer this question you must take a look at the basic principle of all Content Management Systems—content and layout must be separated from each other and can be manipulated through templates and stylesheets. Tags that are dynamically replaced by the CMS's content are preferred. The type of tag varies mostly between<Tag> and {Tag}, but the principle is always the same.

But TYPO3 doesn't stop here—because of the ability to create the complete output template with TypoScript, the developer has full control over the layout. The influence of this template on the final design in comparison to normal HTML templates is disproportionately higher.

Then what is TypoScript? The statement that it is not a programming language is not entirely true, since TypoScript, strictly speaking, can be regarded as a declarative programming language. TypoScript is a tool with which you specify what the output of the website and/or TYPO3 will look like. In contrast to a true programming language, you simply use TypoScript to describe the look of the result; the actual path to the solution is not programmed.

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