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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

TypoScript and Multilingualism


Most large commercial online presences are offered in more than one language. The users love it, but until only recently, this would have given the developer untold problems. Any changes would have to be made on at least two pages. Often a page would be missed, a link would not be set, etc. TYPO3 allows you to create multilingual sites easily and in two different ways:

  • The multiple-tree concept

  • the one-tree-fits-all-languages concept.

Both of these versions warrant a closer look, because there is an interesting concept behind TYPO3's multilingual websites: If a page is called up in a language that has no translation, the page is displayed in the default language. Thus you do not have to be afraid of empty pages with missing translations.

How well TYPO3's multilingualism works can be confirmed by a glance at the back end. Every editor can choose his or her favorite language there. And you can create web pages using the same principle.

The Multiple-Tree Concept

With...