In order to be able to reconstruct the following examples, put a few pictures in the Temp area. This chapter assumes that there is a sub-directory images/
in the Temp
directory. The easiest way to upload the graphics is using the Images module. To do this, call the module, click on File Upload in the context menu of images and load at least two graphics on the server (what these graphics look like is of no concern).
Normally you can run TYPO3 without any additional software. If you want to be able to edit images, however, you will need two additional software packages. One is the GD library (GDLib), which is an extension for the dynamic creation and manipulation of graphics. GD library is included with every standard installation of PHP and you can get more information on the project page (http://www.boutell.com/gd/). The second piece of software is ImageMagick which is really useful for creating and scaling thumbnail images.
You can check with the install tool to see whether...