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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

Uploading Files


The File Upload extension gives users the option to upload files to the server. After installation, the extension is available as a plug-in. To use the plug-in, select the Upload option under Plugin and a totally functioning upload form is at your service. If you want, you can optimize this form with a few lines of TypoScript code for your own needs. The available properties are listed in the following table:

Property

Description

checkExt

If this property is set to 0, the MIME types are checked.

checkMime

If this property is set to 0, the file extension is checked as to its reliability.

extExclude

A comma-separated list of non-allowed file extensions. This list has precedence with the values specified by extExclude

extInclude

A comma-separated list of allowed the extensions types.

FEuserHomePath

A logged in FE-user can upload data with this into his or her own directory.

maxSize

Determines how large uploadable files can be.

mimeExclude

Defines...