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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

The Auto Parser Template


There are usually a number of people involved in creating an online presence with TYPO3. The designer creates the layout, which is then implemented by an HTML author and then modified for TYPO3 by a programmer. This chain of involved persons often leads to problems. It gets particularly awkward if the HTML author makes changes to the code written by the programmer. Template comments are often deleted or moved—which of course destroys the template. The paths to graphics and stylesheet files are also risky: if these are not correct, display problems are created. The list of risks and errors could be continued indefinitely. The fact is, however, that later modification of templates (especially by inexperienced HTML authors) can have serious consequences. The Template Auto Parser extension is designed to help you avoid these problems. It gives you an edge in several areas: first of all, you can create modern layouts with it that use CSS for the positioning of elements...