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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

Resources in TYPO3


We mentioned in the introduction that there are problems implementing barrier-free websites with TYPO3, but you are not hung out to dry. TYPO3 does have some approaches and resources that can be of immense help.

In particular, TYPO3 has made enormous progress towards barrier freedom in the areas of extension development. The deficiencies we have mentioned before can at least be partially remedied using the following extensions.

CSS Styled Content

CSS Styled Content (css_styled_content) is the most important extension for barrier-free websites. This extension, which is now set in stone with TYPO3, enables the generation of table-free code. This extension, however, doesn't reach everywhere: There are certain content elements, such as Text with Image, that have not been incorporated yet and are still displayed in table form.

But CSS Styled Content represents a huge step in the right direction. The extension inserts TypoScript elements for content elements, meaning that you...