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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
Book Image

Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Extension Manager Interface


The main TYPO3 extension manager interface is shown in the following screenshot, and is accessed by clicking on Ext Manager on the main menu.

This view is grouped by the category, but we can change the grouping using the Group by option at the top of the page.

The Show options change the information displayed in the table of extensions. By default, we have the details view, which displays the following:

  • Installed Status

  • Icon

  • Title

  • Extension Key

  • Version Number

  • Download Link

  • Documentation

  • Type Name

  • State

There are three different installed statuses: Installed, Not Installed, and Required.The installed status is a green circle with a minus symbol within; we can click on the symbol if we wish to remove the extension. The not installed status is a grey symbol with a plus sign within; we can install that particular extension by clicking on the symbol. The required symbol is the letters Rq in red. This symbol does not do anything as the extensions that are classed as required...