Mastering TypoScript

TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

By: Daniel Koch

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eText | 22 December 2006 | Edition Number 1

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A complete guide to understanding and using TypoScript, TYPO3's powerful configuration language.

Key Features

Powerful control and customization using TypoScript
Covers templates, extensions, admin, interface, menus, and database control
You don't need to be an experienced PHP developer to use the power of TypoScript

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Design and develop templates in TYPO3ndesign templates, pure TypoScript templates, and TemplaVoila
Develop extensions in TYPO3; build extensions using Kickstarter
Understand the objects, properties, operators, and data types in TypoScript
Use and customize different text editors like HTMLAreaRTE and Rich-Text-Editor
Understand the entire TYPO3 back end, including the Info/Modify tool, the Object browser, the Template Analyzer, and the TypoScript Properties display
Edit the front end using the Admin panel
Work with design templates using markers, subparts, and HTML comments
Understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types
Understand TYPO3 database structure and query it using SQL
Use user groups to distribute the editing and management of content on your site
Customize the back end with Page TSConfig and User TSConfig

Who this book is for

This book is suitable for TYPO3 developers, administrators, and designers who want to develop fully featured TYPO3 websites using the power of TypoScript. A basic knowledge of TYPO3 is expected, and PHP and MySQL programming experience is useful, though not essential for using this book