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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 Database Structure


We recommend that you use phpMyAdmin to take a quick look at the structure of the database. Unfortunately, from TYPO3 version 4.0, it is no longer included, so you have to install it first. Also, your TYPO3 has to be configured so that installations of global extensions are permitted. You can find the appropriate settings in the installation tool under All Configuration. Enable the checkbox in the [allowGlobalInstall] array. Now you can install the phpMyAdmin extension. After installation, the phpMyAdmin menu item is available under Tools.

You can see details about the respective tables in the right column. Let's go back to these tables. The following list illustrates TYPO3's most important tables and groups:

Table or Group

Description

be_*

The data of the back-end users are administered in these tables. You can save information about groups, sessions, and users in these tables.

cache_*

The cache tables buffer the pages.

fe_*

The fe tables are there...