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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

Objects and Properties of Websites


The use of TypoScript objects has already been covered. The objects that occur in completely normal websites, however, were not discussed in detail. Before moving on to the creation of websites via templates in the next section, we are therefore reviewing the objects that make up a website and how TypoScript handles them.

Defining Page Properties with TypoScript

If you have mastered HTML, you know that a website consists of several elements. In TypoScript these elements/properties are defined with the PAGE object. PAGE has numerous properties for this, of which only the most important ones are presented here. There is a complete overview of the properties in the list in Appendix A.

bodyTag

You can engineer a complete<body> tag using this property. A typical statement for this property could look as follows:

page.bodyTag =
bodyTag = <body background="fileadmin/img/hintergrund.gif" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">

You...