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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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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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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to TypoScript
Introduction to TypoScript
Prerequisites
Declarative Programming with TypoScript
The Power of TypoScript
What is TypoScript?
Back-end Configuration with TypoScript
TypoScript and PHP
TypoScript Templates
Summary
2
Getting to Know TypoScript
Getting to Know TypoScript
Hello World!
Objects and Properties
Operators
Datatypes
Working with TSref
Summary
3
Tools and Editors
Tools and Editors
Choosing an Editor
The Info/Modify Tool
The Object Browser
The Template Analyzer
The TypoScript Properties Display
The Admin Panel
The Constant Editor
TypoScript in HomeSite
HTMLArea RTE
Customizing the Rich-Text Editor (RTE)
Summary
4
Design Templates
Design Templates
Design Templates versus Templates
Principles of Design Templates
Double Headings
Summary
5
Templates
Templates
The Concept of Templates
Template Elements
Objects and Properties of Websites
Integrating Design Templates
The Auto Parser Template
Standard Templates
Pure TypoScript Templates
TemplaVoilà
Summary
6
Working with Graphics
Working with Graphics
Prerequisites
Embedding Graphics
Modifying Graphics
Creating Graphics Dynamically
Advanced Options
Caching
Summary
7
Menus
Menus
Available Menu Types
Hello Menu!
Specifying Menu Properties
Text Menus
JavaScript Menus
Graphical Menus
GMENU_FOLDOUT
Layer Menus
ImageMaps
Special Menus
Summary
8
Frames
Frames
Hello Frames!
Advantages and Disadvantages of Frames
Creating Frames
Iframes
Summary
9
Forms
Forms
Building Forms
Designing Fields
Setting up a Password-Protected Area
MailformPlus
Standard Search
Integrating the Extended Search
Uploading Files
Summary
10
TypoScript and SQL
TypoScript and SQL
The Database Structure
Reading Database Contents Dynamically
Manipulating SQL Statements
SQL Queries
Summary
11
Extensions
Extensions
Building Extensions
Extension Categories
The Extension Manager
Useful Extensions
Developing Your Own Extensions
Practical Extension Development
Extending the References Extension
Summary
12
Barrier Freedom
Barrier Freedom
Resources in TYPO3
Creating Barrier-Free TYPO3 Content Elements
Summary
13
Fine Tuning
Fine Tuning
TypoScript and Multilingualism
Publishing Multiple Versions
Deactivating "Page is being generated"
TYPO3 and Search Engines
Summary
14
Customizing the Back End with TSConfig
Customizing the Back End with TSConfig
Page TSConfig
User TSConfig
Summary
TypoScript Reference
TypoScript Reference
Functions
Conditions
Forms
Frames
Object Reference
Summary

Objects and Properties

The following example will help you understand what objects are and how they are handled. You have several options for going to work every morning. You can travel by bus, train, car, or bicycle. All of these means of transport can be represented in TypoScript by the variable myVehicle. The actual means of transport can now be assigned to this variable as an object. Typical object types in this case would be TRAIN, CAR, or BICYCLE. We will focus on the third and most ecologically valuable of these options: 

myVehicle = BICYCLE

This syntax declares that myVehicle is an object of type BICYCLE. Of course every BICYCLE has properties, such as the size and the number of gears, even if it is only one gear in the simplest case. A BICYCLE object could therefore be described as follows:

myVehicle = BICYCLE
myVehicle.size = 28
myVehicle.gears = 3

These lines of code tell TYPO3 about the BICYCLE object—its size is 28 inches and it has three gears. The operator = (equality sign...

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