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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

HTMLArea RTE


The Rich Text Editor (RTE) was the standard WYSIWYG editor for TYPO3 for a long time. With Version 4.0 this has changed and HTMLArea RTE is now included.

HTMLArea is one of the best open-source rich-text editors. With it you can set up content from a browser in a WYSIWYG environment, which is then stored in HTML format. But this new editor is anything but popular in the TYPO3 community. For one thing, it often needs to be reconfigured after an update. This isn't usually a huge problem, but with HTMLArea RTE one often has to experiment with TSConfig to get it done. So if you are planning to make HTMLArea your editor you absolutely have to look around the appropriate forums to check whether there are any serious implications for you. http://www.typo3.net/ would be a good place to start.

As we have mentioned, the installation of HTMLArea is easy for TYPO3 4.0 users. If you are using an older TYPO3 version, you can install HTMLArea. Uninstall the old version of RTE; subsequently...