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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 Template Analyzer


This tool displays a clear overview of the structure of the template. It can be accessed via Web | Template and the Template Analyzer option in the drop-down field.

This table displays whether Rootlevel, C. Setup, and C. Const constants have been set, what the page ID is, and at what root level the template is located. If you click on

the template title, CONSTANTS and SETUP are displayed. The content of CONSTANTS, however, only appears if Clear Constants is not enabled in the template.

The Template Analyzer also provides various tools to check the TypoScript code. For example, you can insert line numbers by enabling this in the Linenumbers checkbox and then clicking on the template title. Syntax highlighting can be activated by clicking on the Syntax HL checkbox. This causes objects, properties, etc. to be displayed in different colors for easy recognition.

Looking at the TypoScript template code is particularly useful for beginners. You can gain an insight on how professionals...