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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

Standard Templates


TYPO3 comes with a few standard templates. These can be seen under Web | Template | Click here to edit whole template record by clicking on the Include static field. Standard templates are very useful if you don't want to create your own templates. You can modify the standard templates that come with TYPO3 as you wish, but your options are limited. If you want to create your page with a minimum of effort, use the standard templates. The following example shows how easy these templates are to use:

You will find a brief description of the templates in the following pages. This should make it easier and faster to select the right template.

Not all templates are listed; that would take too long. You can find a complete list of standard templates that can be used with TYPO3 at http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_statictmpl/.

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All templates beginning with template access the standard template content for rendering. These templates are particularly useful...