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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

The Extension Manager


The extension manager is the focal point of extension administration. You will find the extension manager in the left menu under Tools:

This back-end module helps you to install, update, and uninstall extensions in the simplest way.

You can decide which tasks are to be executed from the Menu dropdown in the upper area of the window.

Entry

Description

Loaded extensions

Lists all installed extensions.

Install extensions

Shows all available extensions in your TYPO3 installation. All the extensions displayed can be installed without having to download them first.

Import extensions

The Extension Repository is the central contact point for all published extensions (more about this later). You select this item when you want to install an extension that is not currently available.

Translation handling

The back-end language is determined with this item. The principle of individual languages that was introduced with version 3.8 was discarded again. In lieu...