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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

Template Elements


In principle, the creation of a template is not complicated. However, when the Template module is called for the first time for the purpose of creating a new template, one can be completely overpowered by the number of the input fields.

You will learn about the significance of the individual fields on the following pages. Some of the elements have already been covered in detail; we will only mention those here. To ensure that all options are displayed on the page, the checkbox Show secondary options (palettes) in the bottom area of the window must be enabled.

  • Template title: This field defines the name of the template. This name is displayed in the back end for an overview. You can choose whatever name you want; there are no syntax restrictions. The name should be meaningful and the template should be identifiable by the name alone.

  • Website title: The name assigned here is used in the<title> tag of the website. This always takes place in accordance with the<title...