TYPO3

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TYPO3 is a free, open source content management system written with PHP and MySQL. It has become one of the leading content management systems (CMS) on the web and in intranets.

TYPO3 is not to be confused with Typo, which is another widespread open source content management system.

1 Author and availability
2 Operating modes
3 Design
4 Syntax of TypoScript
5 TemplaVoila
6 See also
7 Further reading
8 External links

[edit] Author and availability

Initially authored by Kasper Skårhøj, it is available for free and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Today, the core of TYPO3 is developed by two teams in a maintenance tree (4.x, leader Michael Stucki) and a development tree (5.x, leader Robert Lemke). Independent authors have contributed hundreds of pluggable extensions. The Extension Coordination Team tries to bring best interoperability to extensions (ECT, leader Elmar Hinz).

TYPO3 offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. Nearly 2000 extensions are available for download under the GNU General Public License from a repository called the TYPO3 Extension Repository, or TER.

[edit] Operating modes

TYPO3 has two operating modes: a frontend, which presents a TYPO3 based website to its users, and a backend, used by authors and site administrators to manage content for the website. The backend is used with an ordinary web browser, so there is no special software needed to work on a TYPO3-based website.

[edit] Design

The system is based on templates. People can choose an existing template and change features such as logo, colors, and fonts, or they can construct their own templates using a configuration language called TypoScript. In this simple notation, a large object tree structure of information is created with placeholders for data from the database to fill in. Preprogrammed objects are configured by changing or adding values or features. This object tree structure is saved in a text file. Various editors are available to change the content in a structured way. The PHP generator uses this data structure to drive the generation of the content. Besides condition, TypoScript has no other control structures; if real processing must be performed, it is handed to a PHP function. The top level object is the PAGE object. There are various types of MENU objects.

[edit] Syntax of TypoScript

The basic syntax is:

[objectpath].[attribute]  [operator]  [value]

Operators are

= assignment of a value
< copy a whole object
=< insert a reference
> remove object

Examples:

myObject.attribute1=Hello

The content is mainly stored in two tables: one table called pages and another called tt_elements, which holds the elements contained in a page. Every page object has a unique identification key and is linked to a parent page. Thus, the pages are organized in tree form, allowing the system to easily generate menus and site maps.

One key feature of TYPO3 is that it has a flexible application programming interface which enables independent developers to provide extra functionality. Modules using this API are called "extensions" and many developers provide their extensions in a publicly available repository on the TYPO3 developer portal. TYPO3

[edit] TemplaVoila

TemplaVoila is an alternative template engine extension for TYPO3. Features include a mapping tool for creating templates, a new page module, the ability to create flexible content elements and an API for developers. New content element types can be created without programming in no time and gives you full control over the HTML output. TemplaVoila gives you more flexibility for your web design and allows editors to work with content more intuitively.

[edit] See also

[edit] Further reading

Rene Fritz, Daniel Hinderink, Werner Altmann – TYPO3: Enterprise Content Management (Paperback) – ISBN 1-904811-41-8

[edit] External links

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