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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

User TSConfig


User TSConfig can be defined for individual users as well as for user groups. The configuration for individual users is based on the configuration of the respective user group(s) the user belongs to. This configuration can be overwritten with the appropriate entries in the user's profile.

To look at the configuration of a particular user, call up the Tools | User Admin module and click on that user's name.

Setup, admPanel, and options arrays are listed in the User-TSConfig tree (you will find out what these signify in the following pages). You can see the respective TypoScript commands with comments below this tree.

Setup

You can customize all the properties found in the User | Setup module. These include the maximum title length, help functions, and whether or not to display the RTE.

You have the option of defining default properties (setup.default) that will be applied to every new user. If a user clicks on the option to recreate the standard configuration, the values that you...