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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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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.
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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
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Preface

Chapter 9. Forms

Even if you have little or no experience with HTML forms, you will quickly be able to work with TYPO3 forms. Let's illustrate this with a standard form that can be created with two mouse clicks. Each form is created as a New Content Element.

To test the form function, click on Mail form under Form elements. This opens a mask, with the configuration field already filled out.

# Example content:
Name: | *name = input,40 | Enter your name here
Email: | *email=input,40 |
Address: | address=textarea,40,5 |
Contact me: | tv=check | 1
|formtype_mail = submit | Send form!
|html_enabled=hidden | 1
|subject=hidden| This is the subject

As you can see, the syntax is straightforward, letting you customize it rapidly. Calling the form from the front end gives you the following result:

Basic forms can be generated in just a few steps. TYPO3 offers three different types of forms:

  • Mail form: This type of form can be found everywhere on the Internet. The user can order information, make a contact...

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