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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 Object Browser


You will already be familiar with this tool, which diplays the TypoScript code in the form of a tree. In addition to displaying the constants, you can also use it to test conditions. You can access it by selecting TypoScript Object Browser from the drop-down menu under Web | Template.

This object browser works particularly well with bulky source code. The search facility (Enter search phrase) can be used to search for strings (for example, if you have entered the color value #fff000 somewhere in the template but can't remember where). The results of the search are then highlighted in color.

Objects and properties can be edited directly. To do this, click on the relevant element in the tree structure. You can now make the desired changes in the form that was just opened. You can consult the entire TypoScript documentation by clicking the TS button.

It is also possible to simulate conditions with the object browser. To demonstrate this, enter the following code into the...