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1. Ede Quick Start e rc Bigfeet Llsers Page i 2 ay Spe eae EE Fe Bigfest Website user 2 gt orate Ejay Home Username eee H Youth Section am john p eee E a Results 2 setter e irene pee tate Ak f Links BiTemplate H E Contact Website usergroup 1 gt P I BB Load Grouptitlhe File E Log in y eam pages art ec EHE E3 Filelist i e ll ER flImages Y ijv Eo e Wo A User Extended view JE Task center C Show clipboard Setup Toos 38 Kim Idua nam rarned WI YPO 3 Getting Started 44 If you want to create web applications with user profiles in TYPO3 you will probably use the frontend users as a basis for an extension which can add additional database fields to the user table thus you can store and manage custom information about website users A backend user blue icon works in the backend and is concerned with changing the information behind the scenes Because backend users are concerned with the administration of a website they have nothing to do with the access restriction on the website itself which is only partially true of course since backend users can preview hidden frontend pages Backend users can be created only one place in the page tree root pid 0 and only by backend users that are admin users have the admin flag set which is indicated by the red colored icon since they are the only users with access to records in the page tree r
2. This time we have to make another selection in addition to the first one where should the element go Before or after the current page content element SYP O 3 Getting Started 28 2 SELECT POSITII r OS Mow click atthe position where you wish to place the element on the page Are E e eo won IThis is line 1 This is line 2 This is line 3 Notice that the Type was preset to Bullet list this could have been selected manually instead And you can change it as you like later on If you want to know about the various content element types available remember the little icon help is right at your fingertips Now the page has two content elements a Text w Image type and a Bullet list type in that order In the Page module this looks like this DAI 1 rz i L Hello world This is my first test creating cantent elements Edit in Rich Text Editor This is line 1 This is line 2 This is line 3 Getting Started 29 Management of content elements You just used the New content wizard to create new page content However the wizards in TYPO3 just makes a common task quick and simple by taking you straight to the important options But under the hood all the features can be selected fine tuned and controlled manually You will realize this as you work with TYPO3 Take your time to explore the buttons and options There are many possibilities and you can only get to kno
3. 7 Tables modify F3 Page as Pagecontent T Website user Website usergroup Domain Id 2 Page types Selected _ Items LZ Standard Ps Aduanced A External URL Shortcut Motin menu E 3l Allowed excludefields Selected ens m Start Page Type ra Stop Page TScanfig Page JS stop Page Stop page tree Page Is root of website Page General Record Storage Page Hide page Time Date Teaser text t Full story The permissions of the Draft page Those must be properly set of course In this case since we are creating elements on a page we can do with this setting below the News editor group as owner with permission for creating new page content t Getting Started 117 3 TYPO3 9 Eq News items draft page Permissions v Path FO Bigfeet Maews items d Depth 3 levels 14 A T me E a Eds f b DEW admin i xxx Mews editor xxxxx m Mews items draft The DB mount Also even if no page tree is available for the news user he needs the DB mount set i mews 2 Password sese ken Selected Mews editar 2 GENERAL m Mews editor 12 DB Mounts Hews items draft page A Th m By News items draft page This is because TYPO3s default permission system even checks if a page where a record is created is within the DB mounts of the user Workflow To Do In itself we
4. Extensions Documentation TYPO3 org DEVEL OPER resource Extension Repository Mew and updated Categories Popular Reviewed State Full list 7 search for extensions Search for newsletter subscription in the extension repository newsletter subscription dF Direct Mail Subscription direct mail subscniption n Author Kasper Sk rhia Adds a plugin for subscription ta direct mail newsletters Tech Cat Frontend Plugins collecting subscriptions in the tt address table Version 1 0 5 Be Downloads 245 184 Updated 23 11 02 11 41 e Ho documentation J Newsletter Subscription Module da newsletter subscription Author Kasper Skarhelj A newsletter subscription module which allows you to Tech Cat Frontend Plugins create any number af categories and then allow 5 Version 1 0 1 frontend users to check aff which categories they want ma revien Downloads 491 355 ta receive From the backend you can download a CSV Updated 11 02 03 13 35 list af recipients for sending the mails in any application WOU like In the search for a newsletter subscription engine we found one which seems to fit the needs Notice how the author has bothered to make documentation available 1 This is also very important for you to understand that the documentation for TYPOS is organized with each extension In other words where can you find all information related to the Newsletter Subscription Module On typo3 org together with tha
5. Loaded extensions are currently running on the system This list sho Shy extensions are also loaded but hidden in this list because they them alone unless you know what you are doing Tite Extension key Version e Tr Mini news POE ws 0 1 5 A gr Message board twin mode H board 1 0 9 Cua Llser Task Center Tasks sys todos 1 0 4 ga pio User gt Task Center Tasks Workflow sps_ workflows 1 0 2 t Fs Precanfiquration of Backend Users cent userts 1 0 3 A P Guestbook tH quest 1 0 5 Inserting the guest book on a page As with the email form and search box a guest book and normally any other web application called a plugin in TYPO3 terminology is inserted by a page content element acting as a placeholder for the functionality R Ss Getting Started 55 xTYPOS Path FC Bigfeet Home Guestbook BS Pagecontent Fel GUESTBOOK POSTFORM 3 startingpoint B Page The Insert plugin type is the main selector and secondarily the Plugin selector box is used to determine the plugin type The options reflect some of the installed extensions Plugin Guestbook Mini news Board List Board Tree Guestbook We already have a general guest book now let s create one for the Team pages section which requires login by username and password Go to the Page module click the Team pages page title in the page tree and select New page wizard see previously um Lost and found in Club Member
6. The term web applications is used for programs on a website that perform a certain task which includes real time processing of data For instance the guest book a search engine a message board a calculation form for insurance costs or a membership registration form or online searchable address book are all web applications Many such applications today are stand alone applications with their own administration system etc Content management systems are also known for having such features but normally within a framework that integrates the functionality TYPO3 is such a system a web application platform which greatly helps not only applying and managing but also developing such applications With the Extension Manager the installation and distribution is as easy as a mouse click and with the Kickstarter you can get started in 2 minutes with your own applications If you are interested in these issues you should watch the Episode videos you will find in the Video pageon typo3 org In addition a number of tutorials exist on the issue of extension creation for instance the one made my Oliver Hofmann Notice that this is stuff for the higher level and since you are a beginner right now don t expect either to understand it nor to develop anything before you are a little more experienced with TYPO3 Content management from the Page Tree paradigm When you categorize Content Management systems you find some which approach the issue from the Ap
7. As you can see the Delete page right is not set for the owner group of one of those pages You can do that if you need Christine to delete it but most likely she should not be able to do so In fact you might even restrict access further by not allowing her to create sub pages nor edit the page title s Getting Started 100 3 TYPO3 PERMISSIONS page content page page pages Owner Sa Abort The result is this in the permission overview LE E an This week qi t admin wxx GENERAL 1xxxxx Last week Toke sdmin zn lxxx Bonnet raciitz kkk 2 dJi Pkk re T Validation of settings With the module User Admin you can actually validate that christine now has the correct permissions to this page FE Tools m Modules Miussredmin TScanfig It Ext Managers fl DB check ES Configuration US MEE RESULT Usemames Th admin As Ate christime As ATE T Ue As ATE news Ae zilm su This will tell you right away what the combined permissions will be for her Filernounts iain group OF yn cue Webrnaunts Page tide User Group Everybody This user El This week admin GENERAL xxx xxxxx The first two green stars mean Read page and New content on page the red crosses means Cannot edit delete and create new pages The same view for jonathan might be worth a look Filarnounts 2g Image Archive Webmoaounts User Group Everybody This user Main grou
8. Did we forget something Ahh yes the Groups allowed to assign workflow field that was not discussed So let s just lean back and let the little funky icon do the talking ps poe a ET roups allowed to assign workflow ected Items j ME ee Typo 3 3 Field Help Mic 2 x Frauen Workflow Groups allowed to assign workflow Backend user groups allowed to assign the workflow to other users through To Do items See full description of table size Just remember s Getting Started 116 3 TYPO3 Requirements In order for this workflow to work in terms of permissions for the news user you will have to make sure of a few things The member group The news user is member of the News editor group That group has Access Lists enabled like the GENERAL group we already know But the settings are of course different Backend usergroup 2 Grouptitle zg f GENERAL E zi B Ems Bax As you can see below only the User and Task Center modules are enabled the News table is the only one allowed for editing and the Allowed Excludefields are of course selected only in relation to the News table E TE Hews editor Filemount 1 DLEI Include Access Lists Modules user Fe uzer task web layout web view web list r3 web txlaginusertrackM1 Me Selected Themis Page ay Fagecontent em Website user Website usergroup Domain ea
9. e Ela Home EL 355 2 3 List rpm inl Hews U Info PoP LE agecontent i Inf AE Pac tent Ei a Poe Guestbook ee Functions SE sitemap Edit page header Move page New page Mew content H Template em Search Filelist E jp eu 0 Irnages ES Results EB Doc 1 RRA Last week ii Het in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes quinque murine roug E RBEDOPEBEHEE Mio res hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit T User F oblatio Ahiezer filii amp misaddai die undecimo princeps tA Task center p E Links filiarum Aser Phagaihsl filius Gchran obtulit Eg qs ra 5 antar acatzhbidiirs sroentaurn admamdanme canmtunma trininta This brings up this edit form EH Pagecontent 18 Results ll ne m bey c Il IIl il 1 l L ji CI I Het in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculas quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp Amizaddai die undecima princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Gchran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium mortariolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso Agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii Amisaddai die undecimo princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Gchran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuag
10. es ix a fh gt Search 3 Favorites QU Media Ea ed T p lecalhost quickstart Eypa3 alk main php x Go Links TYPOS 3 5 0 H ist i A Web Content Management System Inf n Tin ie TYPO3 TYPOS CMS ver 3 5 0 Copyright i 1998 2003 Kasper Skarhaj Extensions are eras ely eee ee copyright of their respective owners Go to httpi tuypa3 camy for details TYPOS comes ET Functions with ABSOLUTELY HO WARRANTY click for details This is free software and you are welcome to KA Termnlate br redistribute it under certain conditions click for details Gbstructing the appearance of this notice is p ES File i prohibited bu law ES Filelist This is a brief description of the available modules ff Images Di Dec iowsb u 1 Fage Page content ET r This module allows you to create and edit webpages It provides a Quick Editor T pag F Task center for instant access to the primary page content In addition you can manage 4 Setup different languages and columns of content per page Finally you may access S SE ee special page content like questbook board and shopping items The module also 5 Tools 9 Use ee presents pagehit statistics for the individual pages ser Admin HE Ext Mana Bey A View View page ae eee ee Shows the look of the current page and lets you edit the content directly EX Pag y bi soe ARTE List List of database records Ey Configuration The wab List module prov
11. localhost and you should see this screen ddress 4 amp http localhost Typo3 QuickStart Package Thanks for using Typos The Documentation Tutorial Typos Backend Typos Frontend Typos Install Tool phpMyAdmin If you see this it means you are finished Congratulations Well let s check if it actually works now There are two things to check the frontend and the backend Read on in the next section Check the installation t Getting Started 8 X TYPO3 Check the installation Check the frontend The frontend is a term for the website TYPO3 generates This is what your visitors will see this is the product TYPO3 creates for you The frontend should now be visible at the original URL you typed in In my case it was http localhost quickstart You should see this screen after a second File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q sack e ix EB r p Search r Favorites GA media 4 B ms E http flocalhost quickstart iv Gn Links Address Welcome to FC Bigfeets homepage Et in hostias pacificorum boves duas arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio amp hiezer filii amp misaddai die undecima princeps filiorum Aser Fhagaihal filius Ochran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos flalam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium moartarialum aureum adpendens de
12. please look in the tutorials called Modern Template Building Part 1 and Part2 3 For now please note that these documents are on a far higher level than this one and you should take one step at a time if you are a beginner to TYPOS Order of content elements Well back to the content elements on the webpage take a look at them in the backend Getting Started 20 X TYPO3 E Quick Start E FC Bigfeet T E List Elf Horne m MB News EH Access cs Guestbook 5 Functions 2 ae sitemap We Template Er orbus Search E File L Youth Section Filelist A ag esults images s url Ej Doc mcs Last wee user Poe Report results Task center p 5 Links A Setup cud E E Contact Pai Tools is Log in m User Admin E RE Team pages 5 Ext Manager Users 8 DB check 2 News items draft page SI Configuration E Install x Reload the tree from server b Log tel phpMyAdmin 2 Help 2 About modules C9 About Admin functions 6 Clear cache files in tupa3conf Clear All Cache Logout admin A This week Columns I Path FC Bigfeet Resultz This week tarpe Z3 Pagecontent Edit page header Move page Hew page Mew content PE zs Text We Azo Index Yes Table 4 p d md zl un Index Yes fes Table sepa zT Index Wes NORMAL Results Het in hostias pacificorum bowes duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii A
13. ES i Tj First 2 Saccer 20Match jpg IPG O1 04 03 25 k E Tj girls football team jpa JP3 01 04 03 72K T girsl szacc match jpg JP3 01 04 03 56 K mj images jpa JPG O1 04 03 3 0 RK m new_socc_kitjpg IPG i 4d 3 61K m Soccer 2Omatch 20 jpq JPG 01 04 03 7 Files 253 Kbytes C Display thumbnails Show clipboard CLIPBOARD IBS Imenu Clear Horrnal girls football tearn ipa girsl_socc_match jpg images jpg aard l Selective editing The list module also uses the check boxes for elements for another purpose selective multi editing To enable this you must first of all click the title of the table in the List module 1 a Getting Started 93 gt TYP03 Ile afar E IFO Bigfeset Resultz Last week CR Sr 2 Cl cay 19 Aa w Pie Rn NE Results in first divisian C ty zn zzi J bes AE Results this week from satu ed Rs Last week results This will enable the extended mode Here you can select additional fields from the table you want to view as well 2 Select the Type field for now This will make the Type field appear in addition to the Header field already there Editing all headers Simply click the little pencil next to the Header label Pagecontent 3 SH Sader Los E Results in first division You will see this next Path Fo Bigfeet Resultz Last week TE This feature allows you to edit the sa
14. EXT Inaexed Search Engine Path EXT Engine Path EXT Indexed Search Engine Table Of Co Size 22 K Created 16 11 02 Modified 03 02 03 12 26 Path Documentation Documentation 2 EXT Indexed Search Engine Table Of Contents JET EXT Indexed Search Engine Copyright amp cony Kasper Sk rhay amp t kasper ADhpos com amp ot Published Under the Open Content License avallable from hips opencontentoenmyeni s EXT Indexed Search Engine rabie Of Contents EXT Engine Table Of Contents EXT Indexed search Engine Copyright Notice how the results are nicely organized in sections and sorted by their percentage of relevance The extension doing all this has the extension key indexed search and the manual with more information about it can be found here Guest book A guest book is also a very simple thing to add However stuff like a guest book message board news module etc is normally provided as extensions and extensions need to be installed first They might even need to be imported from the online repository TER TYPO3 Extension Repository if they are not available on the server yet To install an extension like the guest book you simply go the Extension Manager EM and click the add icon Guestbook th guest 5 iT 2s TO EBD Install extension earch Engine indexed search H liner In the view Loaded extensions you can see the list of installed loaded extensions LOADED EXTENSIONS
15. L Choose Start Menu Folder E Fy Choose a Start Menu folder for the program s shortcuts Select the Start Menu folder in which pou would like to create the program s shotcuts You can also enter a name to create a new folder Click Install to start the installation Typo3 Probably you will accept this unless you have something else in this folder o Typo3 QuickStart Package 3 5 0 Setup x 4 File copying Then the thousands of files related to Apache MySQL PHP and TYPO3 are uncompressed to your hard disc This takes a couple of minutes Installing Please wait while Typos QuickStart Package is being installed Vy Output folder E Sapacheshtdacs squickstarsrslibsmediasuploaadssnewsletter Em mm mm mm mm mmm mm mm mm mm mmm Errors If in the process you encounter an error like the one below a file with a special name that cannot be written most likely you can just ignore it know it sounds a little odd to document stuff like this but iD Typo3 QuickStart Package 3 5 0 Setup Error opening File For writing A anahe edger EE A A an 2 LOYAL cennn Hit abort to abort installation retry to retry writing the file or ignore to skip this File 5 Finished After installing the files you are finished with the installation Installation Complete Setup was completed successtully ry Completed a DU E E a a AR HE T T Em me mm me mm mm me mm mem me mm me me mm me me me mm me mm mm
16. NEWSLETTER RE TUI Confirm the creation of the new template and go to the List module to verify the existence of the new template record B Fan club pus Page 3 El Pagetitle wok E Page L M Page 2 ond E Page 3 Template 1 EP Template title B HEW SITE based on standard Now the interesting moment comes did this solve the problem Hit the frontend again ttp fflocalhost quickstart index phprid 34 Fan club Linkto Typo com Linkto Typo com Tvpo3 com And yes it did Of course the pages are empty since no content exists yet And the template must be configured with the Constant Editor with other colors etc That is the next step now It is probably not a surprise to you that the page id sent to the browser was 34 the id of the page from the site But which one of the two websites in the database will be displayed now if we do not send any id The answer is the first one the FC Bigfeet site Well if that is the case how do people every get to visit our new site Read on Controlling multiple domains When you want to manage multiple websites inside your TYPO3 database you simply make sure they have a separate domain each For instance the FC Bigfeet websites could have the domain www fc bigfeet com and the fan club website could be fanclub fc bigfeet com and also www fanclub fc bigfeet com The challenge now is to make sure that people get to see the right thing w
17. Save the user If you click the page title of the Users sysFolder you should see this listing provided the List module was the last backend module you used of course 8 Getting Started 46 X TYPO3 Website user 3 I F Lizernamie M Create login form We already have a login form But what if we want another one on the frontpage Is that a problem No since TYPO3 constructs page content by a series of page content elements as you have learned we can simply insert a login box as one of the content elements on the frontpage The question is rather where among the other elements Now do the trivial Page module gt Click FC Bigfeet gt New content E FC Bigfeet columns ivl a aoe Fo Bi ER fro eee ES ist cci UN ae aaa Se Deen T E ee Y auth Segi Edit page header an ian conten BME Access OoOO o iu ESI Functions ia EB Links I E E Contac e E boa in E Login form m luc3 Login form Pl j Logini logout form for website users This is used to password protect pages You must create website users and groups for this to work Select position ES Welcome to FC Bigfeets home ESLogin gei es news Insert new record here Name it save it WI YPO 3 Getting Started 47 na g oen xs es des aom dbi ex de mr ER ee ER Pagercontent rc If you enter a page reference in the Send to page box the login will be submitted to that page T
18. The elements are now registered for cut on the clipboard Clipboard 1 2 EE Results in first division Results this week from satu ee ere anm Pasting them onto another page is not just a question about going to that page and click the Paste into icon c t E Quick Start fFO Bigfeet Raeasultz Last week er qPaste in clipboard content EE FC Bigfeet Pagecontent 1 Elia Home Header Hg id a section er zs Last week results UU eA Bg zm L B E Results DOCTUS Lem This week E Last week d Report results Extended view After confirming the warning Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 Move all elements 2 From Ehe clipboard into Last week Sms 1 Cancel you Will see the two elements moved to the top of the page and the clipboard pane 1 emptied EN Getting Started 92 3 TYPO3 E rcBigfeet Results Lastweek QX amp zl e SL Pagecontent 31 Header 3 Aa 0 n zs Results in first division SBE SS Har 1 ABs mz Se Results this week from satu tx Hr eS Caer weet rert Qtehesa zm O Extended view Show clipboard TEES CLIPBOARD d g menu v Clear Normal cut E Clipboard 1 Managing files You can do the same thing for files in the Filelist module Just a quick view and you can see the principles are the same lee fileadrnin Image Archive t Filename Type Date Size RW
19. Filelist lm cache hash Ret Slet 4 1 104914 Results EE cache mdb5params Images e d dm EE cache pages r 1049198 Youth use fa cache pagesection Ret Slet Section A User cache typo3temp log Task center 3 fe groups Ret lat E Hame 4 Setup amp fe session data S Tonle amp fe sessions 5 Tools Il Ba amp f Player af f User Admin 2 fe users et Bt A omel Y ext Manager Boreas A peges Terauanecverlay mai gigt g s perc Fie sti 7 fa static template E trainers E e ee fa static tsconfig help E E Install A amp sys be shortcuts Ret Slet Training LET A sys domain schedule fe sys filernounts CER n istas Ret Slet 10 Matches 2 About modules k sys language z 9 About fe sys lackedrecards Ret le eport fa sys log results Admin functions sys note YS clear euch amp sys notepad Ret Sle Last week tice chr amp sys tabledescr typosconty sys tabledescr dk J Ret ole This week Th rd CEN fa sys tabledescr local permanece D eus fermata Ret Slet 14 1 1049 1 Users Clearly the three subpages to Results has their pid field values set to 4 as we would expect Now you have learned that e Pages and all other records by the way are uniquely identified by their uid field number sometimes referred to as the id Pages and all other records point to their parent page by their pid field number Special pages Maybe you noticed that some pages from the page tree was
20. Now log in again at http localhost quickstart typo3 username admin password password More information The frontend editing feature is also described in more details onthis page Frontend editing Q YPO 3 Getting Started 42 Password protected pages Now you know how to create and edit pages That was not so hard was it Quite easy to become a webmaster with TYPOS Later I ll even show you how you can delegate that work The point of a CMS is also that you can have many users maintaining content on the same website With full control over access rights etc But that is described in the end of this document So one thing is to make web pages for all the world to see What if we would like only a part of the world to see them our football team mates Can we add password protection Actually that is already done for you on the website for FC Bigfeet E ES Quick Start H H Fo Bigfeet Eat Home FA Youth Section Ea Results 3 Ne Links EE Contact JA Log in ERE Team pages Poe Images Lost and found Eom Club Member message boa L Sg Mews items draft page EJ Reload the tree from server These pages in the page tree are in fact only accessible from the frontend if you have a username and password Log in If you want to log in go to the page Log in Mew Then enter the username john and password football for your convenience it s the same password for ALL users in the we
21. Now we have looked at the page tree seen how the page tree is reflected in the website menu hierarchy and how pages can be viewed etc The next question is how is content on a page organized Let s take a look at the This week page again 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 19 This week Microsoft Internet Explorer Cale File Edit View Favorites Tools Help sack el ix a E Search sj Favorites PA media e m E Address amp http localhost quickstartjindex php id 13 y Results Rig 2t n This week Results Het in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp misaddal die undecima princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Ochran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium martarialum aureum adpendens decem siclas plenum incensa Agnas anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Aniezer filii amp misaddal die undecimo princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Ochran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium mortariolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incensa et in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculos quingue haec fuit ob
22. Track e Ww i a ti Fae oe oe E B FC Bigfeet Sam Users Loci du se uc Flay Home Path FO Bigfeet Users pcr H A Youth Section F Info H a Results LOG MA Access bos E Links i E H Access Date Time Age Username Name Sess lgd Page hits Sr Functions aE estar 3 o Boa in 2 Ce Newsletter g Team pages subscribers er e Before the registration of frontend logins will work we have to enable it in the template record just like with the language setting for the newsletter form config tx loginusertrack enable 1 Unfortunately this is currently not documented well and had to look into the source code of the plugin to figure this out Shame on you extension author hmm that is a slap in my own face D oh Watch video to see it done Since the plugin has just been installed we need to login and out a few times in the frontend After having done that the User Track module will show a nice list of logins LOG Date Time Age Username Name Sess lgd Page hits 02 04 03 12 02 0 min newuser O min 3 02 04 03 12 02 0 min john Jahn Das D min 3 The Sess Igd tells for how long the user was logged in didn t have much patience guess Changing backend language A little side note here might be how to change the language of the backend That is really easy Users can do that themselves if they have access to the Setup module _ Getting Started 68 3 TYPO3 LANGUAGE Engl
23. a xe iE Mage 3 peg H Template Eq Fan club Path Fan club Depth 3 levels m o i ut cce Hr mec iE LET Es a E FSER n ko mE admip CEEE ix xxxx Gebet gdin PEtat xxx X EJ Newsletter 2 Page 2 Change permissions pitat 1 sse subscribers AE 3 Page 3 eee admin i 3c asec Then set the owner and group and make sure the recursive setting is selected this will apply the changes for the root page to subpages down to 1 level GENERAL PERMISSIONS O ISI s LI s s cong Set recursively 1 levels 3 pages affected sss Nice Depth 3 levels ve Fari au cy See phil tty GENERAL i xxxxx Pase 1 4 eee phil Pme GENERAL i xxxxx Page 2 ite phil i tat GENERAL ixsxxx is Page 3 jaded pei EE GENERAL xxxxx Step 4 Final check In the User Admin module phil checks out fine now _ Getting Started 106 STYPOS B p Webrnounts AA Fan club phil mE GE NERAL eser dau ERE ae doge de l HAE Page i phil GENERAL x xxxxx KARRE Kiky HE Page 2 phil GENERAL x MEXXX ARRIRA dpi pu Page 3 phil PEKEE GENERAL rye XXXXX Neb s GEH RE Step 5 Test the new user Finally log in as phil A neat trick is to just press the SU Switch User button in the User Admin module that logs in without the user of a password for admin users only of course ge news phil And
24. a templates Setup or Constants field really is to use the Info Modify view Here you get direct access to the fields from the template record This is done as a help for developers who will be using this a lot Template Tools Ea FC Bigfeet Path FO Bigfeet TEMPLATE INFORMATION H NEW SITE based on standard Title MEW SITE based on standard Sitetide P Description stylesheet css 1 0 K bigfeet_loga gif 2 5 EK T Resources beckback jpg dS us E Constants edit to view 28 lines amp Betup edit to view 8 lines Click here to edit whole template record m Notice how there is a link 1 below the menu block which directly points you to editing of the full template record if you need it In the setup field you find a few lines t Getting Started 73 3 TYPO3 SETUP t content mena 20 2 styles sitemap gs BH page stylesheet stylesheet css EH plugin tx danewslettersubscription pil miade na amp uthEmail i page config language dk Ey canfig tx loginusertrack enable 1 Ed These are clearly strange codes to you and they do require a manual and some background knowledge to get done right So don t worry The first line 1 inserts an alternative sitemap to the default which is quite boring then a stylesheet is configured for the page 2 This is used by the mininews plugin which has all it s formatting done by CSS contrary to other parts o
25. checkbox and select Copy for an element Notice how this element gets registered in the clipboard that is shown now You will have to refresh the List module before it s shown If you select another element the first one is removed Cutting element is the same it s just being registered as Cut instead If you enable Extended view checkbox you can see a whole panel of nifty little buttons which are all great shortcuts instead of activating the context menu all the time Pagecontent 3 gt P Header i ius zd Results in first division GSE ABS AA Ba ER us Results this week fram satu uw B5 EE Al x zm Bg X ES 3 Hs Results last week week 14 GREA ERAS AT Eo x Ej Extended view Try to play around with the buttons here The numeric clipboard pads managing many elements Back to the clipboard select one of the numeric pads now RN Getting Started 91 3 TYPO3 Pagecontent 3 Eal Header di Ea S UT an Results in first division A BS Aat 2 ae Results this week from satu Ca eS fe A ERAS aj ji an Results last week week 14 tx s BEBE EEG Al A Extended view Shaw clipboard Bl Clipbosrd 1 Wo element Clipboard 2 Clipboard 2 Now you can tick off the elements to select for the clipboard thus you can have not just one but multiple elements selected at once Select the first two elements and press the Transfer button Sew E Il Transfer the selection of re td
26. content like email forms search boxes site maps etc e Create a guest book or a message board e Change colors background images fonts even how to select another template e Manage backend users that maintain different parts of your website Create a workflow for news item creation on the front page How TYPO3 organizes pages in a tree structure and stores content Video There is a video soon as well Hang on PDF version If you would rather like to read this tutorial as a PDF document you can download it here TYP 03 Getting Started 2 Translator s notice Not many of the documents which are meant for TYPO3 developers are available in other languages There are different reasons for that One important reason is that the common language we use within the international developer community is English Even if an open source community like ours could manage maintaining the big amount of documentation which exists for TYPO3 in several languages the developers soon wouldn t speak about the same just because of their different languages That s why basically all documents dealing with the development of TYPOS3 will be available only in English And the central point for discussions will for the next period most likely be the English mailing list This tutorial is meant to help you getting started with TYPO3 For this reason we decided to allow the translation of it into other languages In the localized version of this docume
27. go on to that one _ Getting Started 86 3 TYPO3 Image archives Managing files in TYPO3 Let s look at another interesting module the File module s fileadrnin Image Archive 2 tJ E Ed Filename Type Date Size RW ma First z 0Soccer 20Match jpg JPG O1 04 03 25k z girls soccer team ipg JPG O1 04 03 72k z girsl_soce match ipa JPS 01 04 03 56 E zm images jpg IPG 01 04 03 5 0 Kk A new zaocc kit ipa JPG 01 04 03 616K z Soccer z match z ipg JPG O1 04 03 34 K 7 Files 253 Kbytes FJ Reload the tree from server File H Filelist Images mimm F Display thumbnails i Show clipboard This works by the same principle as the List module for database elements it has a folder tree and a list view of files in the folders The folder displayed by default for admin users is the fileadmin folder located under the quickstart directory Here a little image archive already exists These files are not used on the website directly If we want to do so we can either a link to the files from content elements or b pick the files in the process of selecting files for content elements Using files from the archive in your content elements The latter approach is the most typical Try to insert an image element on the front page of the Fan Club site 1 Bd Images only LILI Any number of images aligned in columns and rows with caption Like the image options above but without text And instead o
28. have a little To Do list for the development of the workflow system in TYPO3 The most obvious need is the ability to re enter an existing element into a workflow That is still not possible Or maybe is has become possible in the mean time since this tutorial was written In that case please remind me to remove this notice Getting Started 118 STYPO3 Where to go next Well this concludes the Getting Started tutorial It was probably a little more than getting started but that can t hurt you with TYPO3 because you will have something new to learn every day for the next three months anyway First of all all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and you better go playing with TYPO3 Explore it Click the buttons while you can Some day you will have a production site running and then you won t want to experiment with features you have never touched before right So don t hold yourself back Other tutorials There are a number of tutorials which are great ways to learn more e Modern Template Building is a tutorial in three parts divided into two documents Part 1 is the next step to take after this Getting Started tutorial Part 2 amp 3 is for more advanced users who have developing experience with PHP e The GoLive tutorial that was the original name this is a miniature version of the Modern Template Building tutorial Takes the same approach with an HTML file and teaches you how to implement that with s
29. how to position the block of images a Getting Started 88 ATYPO3 there are three images remember in relation to text This is mostly important when using the Text w Image element type of course Secondly the Columns selector 2 is important since this is responsible for organizing the images into columns in this case 2 The Border option 3 is nice since a black border is surrounding the images and that looks good most of the time The Width field 4 determines the image block width in pixels very useful as well The Link box 5 can set a link for the images unless the Click enlarge option 6 is selected which will enable a link for all images which opens a window with an enlarged version inside Very nice feature for galleries Finally the Caption field is for the text under images And finally remember The little funky icon help at your fingertips Use it Browsing the image archive If you use the Images module instead of Filelist you will have a larger view of the images E Egifileadmin es fileadrnin Image Archive jpImage Archive m TEMP First 2 05occer 2 Match jpg 3 55 user upload Size 25K ES Reload the tree from server DIERERGRE 497x259 pixels File _ H Filelist fimages girls soccer team jpg Size TZE Alternatively you can enable the thumbnails view in the Filelist module Display thumbnails ll Shaw clipboard and tha
30. implemented in TYPO3 Let s use that to move the page back again Cut the page paste into X ee L c Paste after the Report results page art results L Show UL c Edit pra L M ew Info copy IH cur d M Paste into Paste after z thi Mare sptions Gaxec b O Getting Started 31 gt TYP03 Answer OK Mic rosoft Internet Explorer 2 Move Topscorer to after Report results Cancel That s it The page is back where it belongs Ela Results n This week Background Watch out consistent concepts on board Notice that the same principles of copy cut paste can be used with not only pages but page content elements as well well in fact any database element or file that TYPO3 manages is subject to this functionality This is a great example of how TYPO3 uses the same concepts consistently and throughout the system so once you have learned a feature a lot of other features make sense to you as well If you open your eyes to it you will have many of those Aha experiences when you see how things are designed to fit together Visibility settings hiding pages timing appearance etc A feature you will find for many elements in particular pages and page content elements is the publishing control fields or visibility settings They look like this for pages E Page 13 This week Eus uus cna General options Start Accessi Includ
31. is instantly online and people surfing on your website will now see the new header instead of the old It s that easy and fast to maintain webpages with TYPO3 Tip Another way to activate page edit Instead of clicking your way from the Page module to the page tree etc there is also an Edit item in the click menu which also brings up the Page module TYPO 3 Getting Started 24 1 content ti Tip QuickEdit save a mouseclick If you want fast access to your page content elements you can change the Page module view to QuickEdit instead of Columns then the first content element on a page is shown right away E Quick Start EJA This week J A Fc Bigfeet I E 3 Results in first division Pad E EE x uit x1 Elia Home L a boe News FH Pagecontent 18 Results in first division Ls Guestbook Ls Sitemap Rod Search H E Youth Section Flay Results ME TRE week 5 xu Last week Er E amp EB Em 1i I em xm hu Report results a A BZ U FFE EE tE Ew L3 e Links Het in hostias pacificorum bowes duas arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos E I Canta anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp misaddai die undecimo eui nrincens filinriimrn Aser Phanaihel filins Ochran nbtiilir acetahiiliirn arnenterina Creating new pages is very easy Since pages are always organized in the hierarchy of the page tree you will have to settle for a position of the page first Of course
32. not shown in the menu of the website Well the pages were these a Getting Started 15 3 TYPO3 Not in menu The Log in page 1 was not shown because the page type was set to Not in menu This is useful if you want to create a page which should not appear as a menu item Still you can access the page by creating a link to it manually or just type in its id number in the URL directly Setting the Not in menu mode for a page is done by editing the page header 3 New 8 Info Copy 2 More options Hide Wisibility settings Edit page i 5 Delete T Ej Page 19 Leg in a p i B de zi e Hide page Type Mot in menu iv EST 1 SusFolder Recycler l Access restricted page The Team pages page 2 is not visible because it has been access restricted This means it will only be shown when a frontend user has logged in This is covered later in this tutorial But the short story is that you edit the page header and select the user group you want to allow access for Include subpages ius J sysFolders what is that Finally the two so called sysFolders are not displayed 3 You create a sysFolder like you created the Not in menu page simply select sysFolder as the page type see previously But what is it Well by default pages created in TYPO3 are meant to contain web page content They appear in the menu and can have a title 95 of all pages are used like that But
33. of the same logo 5 the same background image 6 and the same background color 7 These parts are also a part of the template like the indirectly dynamic parts but they never change by any action Always the same on each page Template records So how does TYPO3 implement this principle Well you can read in depth information about the recommended approach for professionally made website in the tutorial Modern Template Building However this is written for people who are professionally working with web design in teams with developers designers etc So the level is a bit higher than this tutorial claims to be Getting Started 70 X TYPO3 But the main point is the template record This is a control element that instructs TYPO3 how to handle a certain branch of the page tree If this seems like an awkward approach to you at first then so be it it s in fact highly consistent with what you have learned already and further it makes perfect sense when you later wants to make many sites in the same page tree including multiple templates etc If you look at the simple FC Bigfeet website in our case notice that the root page of the website contains such a template record E Quick Start FC Bigfeet Page yeee To G view LEC Bigfest JE Page 5 Pagetitle i gt User Track ak tal Home m er Masta E a Results IE Youth Section MIB Access Ey Links K m Sr Functions 3 A E Contact w M Tem
34. pages can also serve as simple containers of database elements that are not meant to be content on a visible web page This is what sysFolders are for Use them just like you use folders on your computer s file system to store different files in an organized manner In the same way sysFolders are folders that nicely organize database elements inside TYPO3 In this specific case the sysFolder Users contains the website users that can log in to the website more about that later on You can view the content of the sysFolder by using the List module that is the Explorer inside of TYPO3 _ Getting Started 16 3 TYPO3 eb E EQ Quick start ize Bigfeet Users AS 3g aps C Pal Page 5 E B FC Bigfeet Website 2 ixl OL view ebsite user 2 l IPES A EL is Home Username ig m ue XE T5 News a e john BEI Access PO B wl is e Loe Fe Functions x UAE E a Template E m Search Website usergroup 1 3 File B Bl A Youth Section Grouptithe E Filelist El m Rash zt e TERIS fff Irnages TT GR ESL B A This week E Doc gen Last week Ix User Dor Report results C Extended view ERE center m ae m L Shaw clipboard Setup amia Toos 0 p D aA Create new record E User Admin B eT eam pages JE Ext Manager 0 P C Search String This page Search im DB check uw Lg Mews items draft page t ES Configuration ence SOTE E Install 3 Reload the tree from server Ey Loq sl Shortcuts Apart from the page types
35. pencils that we send to people Simply select the Selector box type Type Label 45 gt Input field Check box Radio buttons Password field File upload Hidden value Submit Button Then the Refresh without saving button which does not save the content just posts the content and redraws the form al BY x 1 Then enter this information 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 51 Selector box ise D Field Jitem_to_send gw The label is obvious 1 The field name item to send 2 is not visible on the web page but as wrote before that is the name the email recipient will see to identify this selection Finally each value you want in the select box is a line in this text field 3 as simple as that Save the content from the wizard and view the page rear calender Club magazine 10 Pencils with logo It s that easy A few notes Now in the backend the new selector box was added in the lines of code in the Configuration field If you are curious about it try to look at the line and you might actually figure out the syntax of creating form fields without the wizard Mame name input 40 Enter your name here Email emailzinput 4 n Address address textarea 40 5 html enabled hidden 1 subject hidden This is the subject When you lose your patience you can seek help in the TSref document where a section tries to describe the details But be fore
36. projects When you want to start your own new websites you normally do it with a clean database If you want that a totally clean database with no pages no content and only one admin user then download the Dummy package from typo3 org This is designed as start up framework for new projects Since you are still a newbee with TYPO3 or if you are just very lazy you might also start up new projects with the QuickStart package the one we are using here The reason is that it already contains a bunch of users a template some content already in place etc You would just have to remove the template make a new one rearrange pages and add new content while removing the parts you don t need This is probably a good idea if you need to get started quickly Template disclaimer Since the template is the crucial point of your implementation possibilities with a CMS it s very important to stress thatthis tutorial does not to any degree display the depth of possibilities with templates in TYPO3 On purpose have used a very boring standard template which has a touch of amateur look over it That is fully on purpose so we don t get lost in these issues Remember the point of this tutorial was to teach you principles of TYPO3 Those principles also apply for professional use of the product But the implementation of templates will be much different So please notice This tutorial was based on a fully functional website with a template already i
37. record becomes the control element you insert on a page to start new sites Thus as soon as you need more than just one website in the page tree you need a concept like this to make it happen Now let s try it in practice Creating a new branch First you create a new page under the current one then add a few sub pages to it This is going to be the start of a fan club website E Quick Start H H Fo Bigfeet Not looking good Error Mao template found Why Well the answer is in the principle told you about before we havenot yet created a template record on the root page so TYPO3 knows that this s the root page The easiest way to come about this is to fire up the Template module select the Info Modify view and use the wizard there Wek E A Quick Start Template Tools Page T ree ee 3 A wiew 0 H E TERA EJ Fan club Infos Modify w Ix T eee ELE Ed un Page 1 User Track pao NO TEMPLATE m Info ae 3 There was no template an this page MM Access c cee age Create a template record first in order to it constants ES Functions Reload the tree from server Hempla CREATE NEW WEBSITE If you want this page to be the root of a new website optionally based on ane of the standard templates then press the button below v Create template for a new site _ Find a standard template you want as a basis of your new website Getting Started 82 3 TYPO3
38. right frame From here you can edit it etc We will soon discuss that If you click the page icon instead of the title a little context sensitive menu appears This is sometimes referred to as a click menu eae jer Mare options Wisibility settings Edit page header Reload thd Delete n gopi KF OReeL Notice If you use older browsers the menu will not appear close to the icon but in the top frame of the backend instead Further be patient the menu might take a few seconds to appear In the context menu you can select options that are related to this page For most of them it is obvious what they do try to play around with them if you like For this example have selected Show which means will have another browser window opened and see this specific page shown in the frontend 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 13 amp This week File Edit Back View Favorites Address Notice how this page was shown in the new window by Microsoft Internet Explorer Tools Help x a f J Search x Favorites er 1 http narea Results BH This week Results Heti in hostias pacificorum boves duos al quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii Am Phagaihel fi filius Ochran obtulit acetabulu siclos fialam argenteam habentem septi plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrific siclos plenum incenso calling the script quic
39. that did not show up in the menu there are also two mysterious pages with a shortcut icon E QD Quickstart ee B FC Bigfeet Eos Ex Guestbook Ed E Sitemap dis This week EAH E Last week L B Report results A shortcut is a neat feature if you have a page empty without content on that should simply jump to another page directly That is very convenient if you still want the link to appear in the menu for instance In our case the Home page jumps to the frontpage and the Results page to This week Try it yourself E Quick Start EIL FC Bigfeet E Home ol 5 Youth Section i bs ezults S Ei This week e E Last week E E Report results You create shortcuts by editing the page type For the Home page it looks like this t Getting Started 17 3 TYPO3 Ja Page 5 Home Hide page itype Shartcut Pagetide EX Shortcut to page F2 Bigfeet ee FC Bigfeet aE 3 ER POF Element Bro A er Microsoft Internet Explorer Page trea E E S Quick tart Fo Bigfeet Ej Home EA Neys E E El You use the Element Browser to select a page to refer to The Element Browser is used to create relations between records and files in TYPO3 s editing forms You can read more details on the Element Browser here For the page Results the shortcut is a little more fancy it simply jumps to the first sub page it finds That is in our case the This week
40. you can change that later if you like To create a new page use the Page module in Columns view to start the New page wizard that will help you to find the right spot to insert the page aH Results Path Fo Bigfeset Resultz E Quick Start B j Fo Bigfest Alia Home Et es Ibo Doo 3 Pagecontent B Sitemap Cig Crac foe Search EE Dm Section NDRMAL n B Mlee dem This week Then a position selector will appear By this you can click the right position for the page visually New record s EA Results Select a position for the new page es This week m Last week S Report results ie ana Insert the new page here He Team pages Finally a form for a new page is shown and you can enter a title for the page Getting Started 25 3 TYPO3 del eal x x d OPEN DOCUMENTS Path FC BRfeet Raesults t i menu Save document and close Now the page tree should be updated Beat Results ade This week Eh Report results ch Topscorer 4 And if you click the page icon of the new page Topscorer you should see that the menu in the frontend has been automatically updated as well Address Es http localhast quickstart index phgrid z7 lis Results Topscorer Last update 16 28 0104 2003 Notice that the page is referred to by the id 27 so the new page automatically got the uid
41. you to fine tune the behavior of modules Rich Text Editor and other elements The syntax of the codes you enter is TypoScript syntax the same as used for the template records But it has nothing to do with templates in the frontend only the configuration internally of features Like you just saw enabling another column for content in the Page module If you want to know about the properties of TSconfig you can find the reference for it on typo3 org This particular option was documented on this page look for the header Shared options for modules mod SHARED Verifying Page TSconfig To view the page TSconfig settings for any point in the page tree use the Info module with the Page TSconfig view Web gd Quick Start Page information ne E FC Bigfaeet Ej FC Bigfeet Page TScontig v ea Hap Home Path FC Bigteet ES x ecu H outh Section ser Trac mum Haj Results PAGE TSCONFIG BE Access glas all m S Functions EE Panett RTE aici HErTemplate cR n magin o um config s eam pages Er Newsletter HAET Eo te mininews news subscribers Lm Users E full text L hidePStyleItems 2H1 H4 H5 H6 i SHARED e colPas list Io 3 As you can see same kind of tree structure shown as in the Object Browser Undo the template change Before we continue let us reset the template to the BUSINESS type again If you didn t make any changes to the template record in the mean time we can easily do this by just
42. Disable Image Archive CO absolute root G relative fileadmin EE Simply the directory Image Archive 1 is entered as the PATH and the BASE field is configured to interpret that path relative to the fileadmin directory 2 That simple When Jonathan has a relation set to this record he will have this directory mounted in his Filelist module DB mounts The DB mounts database mounts are very easy to understand basically they point to the page in the whole page tree which you want to become the root page in the page tree the user should see As you see it couldn t be more easy to give a specific user access to a specific part of the page tree just set the fields value to that page Or two pages even You can add any number of DB mounts as you like Page permissions Ahh yeah One note to DB mounts if the user has no read access permission to the page and sub pages of the DB mount then it really doesn t matter whatever you have configured it will not work And what is read access then Well each page has a permission setting for access like the file system on a UNIX server there is an owner user an owner group and then permission settings for each in five different categories read page edit page delete page new subpage and page content Normally the default settings are fine enough and using the DB mounts to assign access is probably the easiest way to go If you run into trouble just set all p
43. Getting Started Extension Key doc tut quickstart Copyright 2003 Kasper Skarhgj lt kasper typo3 com gt This document is published under the Open Content License available from http www opencontent org opl shtml The content of this document is related to TYPO3 a GNU GPL CMS Framework available from www typo3 com Table of Contents Getting Started eee iix dee didpiin Soest de 1 ITILFOGUCTUOIN MEE 2 What does it Roo RP NER RR RE EORR 2 Screenshot sesssesssssssssseeeeeee nennen nnns 2 dere e C UPS 2 PLDI VO SIO E 2 Translator s NOtiCe ccccccccccceeeeseeeseeeeaeeeaeeeseeeeaeees 3 VEAICALGO Lo NENNEN E 3 BITS CAA ODN c 4 Installation A zip file eeeeseeeesssesss 4 Installation B Windows Installer Package 5 Check the installation sess 9 More details about installation 11 General principles 12 Backend and frontend eeussseuusss 12 msi T 12 obeclal DaQGS siuse eot arreter poda hae tx rae Xr EpEx E P usE 15 Page COMEM cc S 19 Edit and create pages and content 23 zelgs o T noresmavonetousnensantieaeteraunosmeneauds 23 ING WAS escent ee bata en fac Ru M aO Iubet rM OE 25 WIV DAS WE NI E T 30 Vi
44. OAWAMP inskaller4 quickstarb 3 5 0 exe Click the Open button to start the installer 2 Agree with the GPL License Then press Agree on the license screen Notice that for once you can probably do this with perfect conscience since the GPL actually allows you to receive copy modify and distribute TYPO3 freely as long as the same rights to do so is passed on to the next recipient The basic principle of GPL is that software stays free And that includes any modification addition you make to TYPO3 So just pass it on to your friends i Typo3 QuickStart Package 3 5 0 Setup License Agreement i License Agreement c Please review the license terms before installing Typos QuickStart Package X Press Page Down to see the rest of the agreement GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE re Version 2 June 133 EE Copyright E 13883 1331 Free Software Foundation Inc 583 Temple Place Suite 330 Boston M 02111 1307 USA Everyone iz permitted to copy and distribute verbatim capies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Freamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away YOU i IF you accept all the terms af the agreement choose Agree to continue Y ou must accept the agreement to install Topoa QuickStart Package 3 Options Next next next Select components to install v E verything TYPOS installs itself in your start menu a Getting Started 6 xTYPOS Pii
45. TS wizard helps you with the syntax when you know what to look for For the page config object there are properties which can be displayed with the TSreference Wizard ADD OBJECT PROPERTY page contig ul T5ref reference In the window that pops up you can now search for the object that you need the property reference for This is the part where you have to know what applies to your specific object page in our case page config Lx contig m gt 1t And the next screen will conveniently show you the properties language string Language key See stdWrap lang far more information Select between English default empty Danish dk German de Norwegian no Italian it S use the TLD names for the country Must correspond with language if there is ane If not use TLD because if some de kev In fact this information is drawn directly from the online manuals and could also have been found on typo3 org Just look at the CONFIG object in TSref TSref The TypoScript reference TSref is a very well known document in the collection of documents that belongs to TYPOS It contains the description of all the TypoScript objects you can use to create templates in TYPOS It s the manual on what content you can put into the Setup field of template records Before you dive into TSref please notice that it only makes sense if you know what you are looking for already It s a reference listing all properties So if
46. a 256 table Training f amp sys log Ret Slet Events E hc fe sys note i DIA ee fk sys notepad fete a xs S EE Perera NET SER ans ENS Yi cles ao Bet er i 410 1048138578 0 256 text Season is tupa3canfj amp sys tabledescr dk Over Seer eer amp sys_tabledescr_local uem loaner eae ue e EN Ejetesr All Gass Gi sys template Ret Slet ine 1049138612 u 220 TEXT Results amp sys todos il RGA Logout Wa sys todos users mm ies E Ps NEN RUE Sur warkdlows Bet Ser S 1049204464 28 Results this admin sys workflows alar mm Sese fusi weak X Sys workflows rvuser mm AERE ier Wm TE SESE EEE a 13 1049138747 0 7B table Results last if board o uuu OMS ES mede inen Ret Slet week week tt quest 314 tx mininews news mi E 714 4 4a 40d4d wan r hes oe i uc cien It s that logical rYPO 3 Getting Started 22 Edit and create pages and content Edit page We know that pages store their visible content in page content elements So editing a page must be editing page content elements It s really easy to edit page content in TYPO3 Just select the Page module 1 click the page title of the page you want to edit 2 and in the Columns view 3 you click the edit icon 4 of the page content element you wish to change E Quick Start Eee Fit Bigfeet E SG This week Path FC Bigfeet Results This week
47. ange a backend element by moving it up in the order This will yield this order from the top Move record up E Arsenal Liverpool 2 0 SauthH Chelsea 3 2 Results last week week 14 d ca M pel HE Table Results this week dE zm E Arsenal Liverpool 2 0 Indes rez SauthH chelsea 3 2 Text Results T REED aj or zz tm Het in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes quinque Indi owes hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp rmiisaddai die undecimo princeps and on the webpage it looks like 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 21 R m E rE NCU Vie Parent page of content elements This is for people who want to understand the technical side of content elements and pages Remember how the page records had a field pid which pointed to their parent page Well page content elements records and any other database record configured for the TYPO3 backend have that as well Looking in the phpMyAdmin module again we see that the page content elements table tt_content with uids 18 20 all point to the page uid 13 the uid of the This week page FER oa ee E pages language overlay mon chess prises amp static template e rad ee pui static tsconfig help m ure erem fa svs be shartcuts sys domain amp sys filemnounts iextpic Trainer sws history i I2 About modules fk sys language i sys_lockedrecords p E b 4B 9 1049191167
48. arry with them a little wizard For instance try to edit one of the result lists from the page This week Arsenal Liverpool 2 0 SoauthH chelsea 3 2 The Text field which normally contains pure body text now contains the table content apparently organized in some systematic way Text Arsenal Liverpool 2 0 SauthH Chelsea 3 2 able wizard el The table is constructed by interpreting each line in the Text field as a table row Then the vertical line is used to separate columns from each other This is the low level way it works and it could be maintained by hand But the Table wizard would be the right tool to use for most people see image above right This will bring up designated form fields and buttons for adding deleting and moving table content around For instance adding a new row would be this easy TABLE WIZARD tT Arsenal Liverpoal 2 0 die Tee SouthH Chelsea 3 2 eub dic Then add some content to the row a N Getting Started 38 gt TYP03 TABLE WIZARD tn wu arsenal Liverpool 7 0 aT we southH Chelsea 3 2 ATRA Denmark Uruguay 6 0 B eub dic G x j Sred fields Save the content from the Table wizard and back in the Text field the real underlying content looks like this Z Text Arsenal Liverpool 2 0 SouthH Chelsea 3 2 Denmark Uruguay 6 0 When the web page in the frontend is refreshed we will see this If you wonder how the ba
49. as pac quinque haec fui Phagaihel i filius siclos f alam arg dios Benum i You can play with other values as well The constant editor The better way to handle these changes is to use the Template module in the Constant Editor view d Web El L A ai Page El H FC Bises View E E List a Home Path qs dep ej User Track ffr Info Bl A Results EDIT CONSTANTS FOR TEMPLATE eS aa oe B Links Ej MEW SITE based on standard Ei Functions B 5 Category BASIC 13 M Template pe Tem late DUM You can access a lot of options here there are visual explanations for most of them and you can select from various categories You can also find the menu background colors listed here Basic category Colorz HI Background color menu frame menu bqzol This e the background color of the page in the left frame menu frameT ze ees Default cOcoco Notice how this is really just a wizard that edits the constant from before called menu bgCol Likewise you can easily change and upload images for use as logos or background images EH Background image page frame page file bgimg E v beckback jpg 892x818 m t 1 T Logo file menu frame file loge This is the logo file inserted in the top of the menu frame bigfeet_logo gif 150x78 2 Default roediafuplosds ftypalaga gif Browse Here we change the current background image to be the logo instead 1 an
50. at you like best and you can accomplish more work in less time because TYPO3 offers these features But frontend editing is not just a new button it might actually be a revolution to the way you or your content contributers can work with the system You have probably noticed the small edit icons that have appeared on the web page Try to click one of them Tv Virum v 2 Link LJ rYPO 3 Getting Started 41 Try to change the header text and press Save document and close you are taken back to the webpage and the change is immediately there This is what frontend editing is very intuitive great for correcting small mistakes making small adjustments excellent for poorly skilled content contributers on your team etc It is the context sensitive editing method raw power at your fingertips So can everyone just edit my pages No of course not only when you are logged in in the backend Otherwise the icons are hidden and if anyone could click it we would be immediately rejected Try it yourself log out in the backend ic 2 i files in typo3conty B Clear All Sake If you still have a frontend page with icons then try to click one you will see this screen instead of the edit form gt TYP03 Login error No user logged in Sorry I can t proceed then You must have cookies enabled and when you refresh the webpage you can see that the icons are gone now
51. bsite for now Make sure to enter it precisely as stated here upper and lowercase characters make a difference John will not work it s john Click the Login button you are now directed to the Team pages unless you did something wrong TYPO 3 Getting Started 43 Also notice that now the formerly hidden pages in the menu are visible Create users group Before you can create access restricted pages you must first and foremost have one or more frontend users and groups These can be created before during or after creation of your website The order doesn t matter Frontend and backend users Now wait a minute How many kinds of users are there Well there are only two kinds Remember that we have two areas of TYPO3 the frontend website and the backend administration A frontend user orange icons can log in to the website of course They cannot change content since they have nothing to do with the backend but they merely exist because it allows us restrict access to information on the website Frontend users also called Website users are created in the system where we want to create them In our case we have made a nice sysFolder called Users for both users and groups The only requirement of this storage place for the frontend users is that we tell the template that this is the place to ook for the users when a login request is sent more about that in the section on Templates
52. cem siclas plenum incenso Login If you want to see the latest pictures fram the weekend click here to login Latest news First victory the sweetest omnem locum quem calcaverit vestigium pedis vestri vobis tradam sicut locutus sum Mosi mare 30 03 03 20150 New board in the club Mact man reeedat valimenleniz hinna de nre fin ced meditaheric in en diehiic ac You can click the links in the menu to the left to explore the pages on the website Check the backend The backend is a term for the administration interface you use to manage the website content in the frontend In the backend you edit and create pages and content The backend is normally accessible from the subdirectory typo3 of the installation So try to type in typo3 after quickstart Getting Started 9 x TYPO3 Bie Edt View F View FawpHEeS 2 Tools Help Q0 ix BEAJ 246 50 search p Favorites AUI eda D seach se ravmes Qed 2 e iS Si http Mlocalhost quickstar arfitypo3y ST gt Go Links Log in Now type in the username admin and the password password TIP Make sure that cookies are enabled in your webbrowser If you have disabled cookies you cannot login If you typed the correct username and password the screen will show you this I YPO 3 Getting Started 10 Gei content rignt g QuickStart TYPOS 3 5 0 Microsoft Internet Explorer JEJE File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ae C9 sack
53. ckground color could be changed read on Secondary options Palettes From the dawn of time TYPO3 has held to the concept of primary and secondary form fields The editing forms in TYPO3 contain a lot of fields and can be extended with even more But many fields shown at the same time become very hard to overview for the average user In particular if you are a beginner and have lots of new things to keep inside of your head already The concept of primary and secondary fields means that normally you seeonly the most important and typically used form fields primary And more detailed options are hidden in the secondary fields which are shown on request Consider this form mI ma ee mnm iU 7I TER Pahan Three fields shown easy to overview But if you click one of the icons next to the fields you will find secondary options shown in the palette top frame Zl Getting Started 39 xj Language Default t Columns Normal e Before After Frame vel Index ME E QuickStart EE FC Bigfeet T Es lj xc p xol Results this week v Imenu iw B E EEG Pains SFC dot dibus week In iB News HE Pagecontent 13 Results this week zs Guestbook ee Ej Sitemap ims Search H E Youth Section a EI Results esults this week That is very clever we have many options lots of details but they are stowed away until we need them so we don t get confused The downside is when you need one of
54. clicking the Undo button that will restore the previous state of the record in the database Select Edit for the template record T ls e x sag ve SITE based on standard v menu Path FC Bigfest H Template 1 NEW SITE based an standard Template tide NEW SITE based on standard Website title After the screen has refreshed check the result The previous setting of the static template box should be shown again Include static Selected Items template BUSINESS template TU P i template RE istules sitemap gs template NEWSLETTER template HYPER template GREEN If this is not the case for you just make the change now manually You might also change the background color of the menu constant menu bgCol back to 007000 b O ON Getting Started 81 3 TYPO3 More info on the Undo History feature in TYPO3 is available here Creating another website in the database TYPO3 has the ability to create not just one website but any number of websites in the same database This is a powerful capability called multi site The principle is that a new website can start from any page in the page tree and the way to indicate the starting page root page of a new site to TYPOS is by inserting a template record If you thought that template records are a strange approach to creating templates then you should now see why they are a very efficient solution to this problem because the template
55. d context menu appears Back on the home court again told you watch out for consistently applied concepts And here is John s profile e Website user 1 john 2 Username john Password football Groups Selected Items A A A A Team Team TI LE Ta a s Getting Started 45 3 TYPO3 Creating a user Let s try to create a user Since frontend users like page page content elements news articles etc are just database elements in TYPO3 s opinion the same process of creation can be used for a frontend user as for any other element So this is even a general introduction to creation of new elements Ready It s simple First click the page icon of the page where you want to create a new element Then select the Website user element SER Users s B Page inside 2 E A Click here for wizard ius Pagecontent 2 Luis Click here for wizard rimema A m Website Y Torneo oe EM Domain 2 Ls ld Alternative Page Language m op Template 2 ae 2 fiber nare Lad M Guestbook F a Hews W Board F E Page ie 2 Create a new page and enter the information In this case username password and group are required fields Ma BR x E open pocuments 1 v imenu vi Path FO Bigfeet llzerz website user NEW 2l Usemame P newuser 2 Password H goalkeeper Groups Selected Items Lock to domain
56. d with the Browse button you can pick up a local image on your hard drive to use as a new logo soon you will have a website for yourcompany and not a football club Now there is no reason for telling you more about these features since they are pretty obvious and the only way for you to get acquainted with them is to use them play with them see what happens So do that b Getting Started 72 gt TYP03 Configuring the front end user folder Remember the notice about the required change in the template before the frontend user logins would work This is the place to discuss that See when the login form is rendered it needs to know in which page sysFolder to look for the users that are allowed to log in This is done by setting a constant styles content loginform pid to the uid value of the sysFolder Users In this example the uid of the storage sysFolder is 14 items draft page So all we need to do is set the number 14 in this field Content Login PID of user archive stules content laginform pid Enter the page uid number PID of the sysFolder where you keep your fe users that are supposed to login on this site This setting is necessary if login is going ta work 14 Range O Default This field is found among the 64 values listed under the CONTENT category of the Constant Editor You can set the value manually in the Constants field as well of course The Setup field The best way to edit
57. d with the already known set of tools in the system consistent concepts you will Ilove them soon Site map I ll not spend much time on the site map inserted you know the principle already A content element of a certain type with some additional settings applied Getting Started 58 3 TYPO3 Fl Pagecontent 24 Sitemap i 5 i i 1 rd TE Sitemap Menu Sitemap iv ET tJ Searrh Sitemap Menu type sitemap iw 7 Startingpoint i Bigfeet a B FC Bigfeet E Page Just notice the Starting point field that determines from which page the site map is drawn Likewise other Menu type settings uses this value Instead of site map you can also insert other kinds of link lists based on the page structure and content elements on pages Menu type Sitemap Menu af these pages Menu of subpages to these pages Menu af subpages to these pages with abstract Section index pagecontent w Index checked Recently updated pages Pagecontent Menu type Select which kind of menu you wish to create DETAILS This is a short description of each tupe Menu of these pages This will create a list of links ta the pages you inzert in the Startingpoint list Menu of subpages to these pages This results in a list of links to the subpages af the pages in the Startingpoint list If you do not specify a startingpoint subpages ta the current page will be selected Men
58. ducting a search When searching for the word results two pages come up a N Getting Started 53 ATYPO3 Searchword results rs Search in Headers and keywords 2m i cearchnaowl Try to click Report results title You are then directed to the page and the search words are nicely colored in red Cute isn t it Indexed searching The default search element you are using here is searching directly in page and page content element records This is efficient enough for many smaller websites If you need professional rated searching in indexed content you can get that as well In fact you can get anything for which an extension has been written more about that later For now you can try http typo3 org as an example of the indexed search engine that TYPOS offers Search Searhfo ndewdsearh Match Fart af ward Iv i Orderby Weight Frequency m at a time Style Section hierarchy e Extended resume Regular search The result set will display something like this TYP O 3 Getting Started 54 Displaying results 1 ta 10 aut of 321 1 section Documentation 10 pages Page Page Page3 Page4 Next gt 10 pages 1 EXT Indexed Search Engine EXT Indexed Search Path EAT Indexed Search Engine Table Of Contents 1 7 Introduction doigt 1 EXT Indexed Search Engine Extension Key Indexed search Copyright 200 700 Kasper Sk amp arnng rusos EXT indexed Search Engine EXT Engine
59. e Fan club page elements If you configured everything 8 Getting Started 84 3 TYPO3 correctly a hit to http fanclub fc bigfeet com will show the new website and the http www fc bigfeet com URL will show the old one default Of course it didn t work unless you hurried to register these domains lately Behind the scenes this is what happens TYPO3 detects the domain name Then it tries to look for a domain record If such a one is found like fanclub fc bigfeet com then TYPO3 ocks itself to that page as root page This means that any request for page ids must be within the branch where the domain record was found If a page id from the FC Bigfeet is requested on the domain fanclub fc bigfeet com then TYPO3 will just show the front page of the Fan Club website Starting up new websites Using the New template wizard The feature Create template for a new site of the Info Modify view is very practical for starting up new websites v j Create template fora new site If you just click it without selecting a standard template you will still get a new template record but without any standard template and with a few lines of dummy TypoScript content to get started This is the way the pros are normally starting up new custom made sites and then they work from there with their Knowledge of the TypoScript etc This is precisely the process suggested in the tutorial Modern Template Building Part 1 Framework for new
60. e Moving a page is also very easy with the wizard available from the Page module Let s say we want to move the page Topscorer from its current position to right after Sitemap in the Home section NN k unii Edit page header EE Search i i H E Youth Section M NORMA EH Results S ES 3 T This week xtw image Hello world d Last week TE This is my first 1 i o zd E Report results Index Yes B L M ae o0 Then you will see a branch of the page tree and by clicking the top page you go up one level SELECT POSITION OF THE ELEMENT ath E 5 T Week Es 3 Last week TE Report results E 3 Topscorer S Getting Started 30 3 TYPO3 And by a single logical click you have moved the page to the new position SELECT POSITION OF THE ELEMENT FC Bigfeet ae Guestbook E Sitemap Mer zug Move page to this position The page tree is instantly updated E Quick Start EE Fe Bigfeet Ela Home xs Guestbook AR Sitemap m E Topscorer Lo Search Using the cut n paste feature to move a page The Move page wizard is absolutely the most intuitive tool for beginners However when you want to get the bigger picture of how to move elements including pages around in TYPO3 you should use the internal clipboard It works pretty much like you know it from windows You right click a document select Cut then right click the folder where you want to insert it and select Paste The same principle is
61. e Bf Matches Path Youth amp ection Matches A SEN Ls Training Schedule Taen E Se Fi File Trainers ee a ur Pagecontent Fietst Es Player of the week E Pageconten 1 Hel About modules CB About 3 Reload the tree from server Logout jonathan Season is over There are no more matches this season Edit in Rich Text Editor Contrary to Christine he has also been granted access to the Filelist module If you look what is in there you will see a slight difference to the view you get as the admin user xe Z Image Archive Eg Image Archive Page i i Boa Coo Pe ier re ce ee ix Reload the tree from server Hr First 208occer 20Match jpg JPG 01 04 03 25K ES File tes 8 un ET girls football team ipa JPG i1 04 n3 72k im jonathan The root folder is not fileadmin but the Image Archive folder directly Setting up user permissions Now we want to know how the users jonathan and christine have been set up How did he do it that guy behind all this Well log in as admin again and let s explore it Try to select Edit for the two users jonathan and christine You will see that their profiles are identical in two areas They have the same group membership 1 and they both have a DB mount 2 the starting page for their individual page trees But jonathan is also allowed access to the file and file_list modules 3 and in addition h
62. e has been assigned the file mount Image Archive 4 This makes sense if you think about it since those features were the ones we t Getting Started 97 x TYPO noticed when we logged in as him T Backend user 4 christine Username christine Password EE GE SE i E E Group Selected Lock to domain Christine A Terkelsen Email chrtmhotm ail com Default Language English I Modules Selected Mount from groups DB Mounts File Mounts DE Mounts This week E Page ee ile Mounts Filernount File Mounts TR Backend user 3 jonathan Ea Username jonathan 2 Password ko koe oko b oe 2 Group Selected n Rinsrmb GENERAL i GENERAL 1 Hews editor EP TEN Lock to domain 2 Admin Jonathan Wesley Z Email john hotmail cam Default Language English m E Modules Selected file file list imi web laveaut Web view Meb list Aeb_txloginusertrack Mi hi Mount from groups DB Mounts File Mounts 3 DB Mounts Youth Section Mis routh Section TFile Mounts image Archive SP Image Archive UL d The file mount assigned to jonathan is a relation to a simple record created in the page tree root as well Filemount 1 LABEL oo Image Archive When you edit it you will see how logically it is configured _ ON Getting Started 98 3 TYPO3 Filemount 1 Image Archive
63. e here 13 quickstart ndate localcont php 6 Dump database content The final step is to dump some content into the database A new database like t3 quickstart contains nothing of course this step will put in a lot of information for our example website e g users pages content etc i Database summary Username Password Host localhost Database t3 quickstart of tables Databases in typoscont directory database sql Impart database M If you see the GO become red now it means you are finished Congratulations Well let s check if it actually works now There are two things to check the frontend and the backend Read on in the section Check the installation after the Installation B chapter Installation B Windows Installer Package Go to the package page on typo3 org and download the WAMP quickstart Installer thanks Ingmar which contains the 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 5 QuickStart website The download is 28 MB but worth it in terms of the trouble you save compared to installing on existing webservers at least if you are here for a quick n dirty test of TYPO3 1 Download installer Click the download link go for a bag of sweet candy in your nearby store and when you are back you will see this Download complete EE f peer Download Complete Saved aller quickstart 3 5 0 ex e From typos sunsite dk Downloaded 28 8 MB in 25 min 50 sec Download Eo
64. e subpages m we Of Hiding a page Try to check the Hide page flag Hide page o 2 Tvne Nice as it is the page icon even becomes dimmed in grayscale and has a little red cross over it it s now hidden EN Getting Started 32 3 TYPO3 9 a i This week EE Last week i Repart results Ls Topscorer i This means you cannot see the page in the frontend Very important that you select Show for the Last week page See no This week page there However if you actually go directly to the This week page you WILL see it anyway hte y lacalhast quickstarkfindex p http lecalhast quicksEart index phprid 13 htEp lacalhast quickskarkfindex phprid 13 amp type 1 u eu Io e um Address because when you are logged in as a backend user hidden pages can be previewed as indicated with the little box in the bottom of the page But that is for your eyes only No one out in the world can see the page before you un hide it again Timing pages and content elements Hiding pages and content element is probably the most typical kind of visibility setting It s so common that it actually has its own item in the context menus x TYPO3 Getting Started 33 Oy Eum E More aptions J L Unhide R E T Visibility E B Edit page header Delete But you can also determine when a page should go online which date Fo
65. enter some dummy content and select an image from your hard drive find a small jpeg image Ef Pagecontent NEW This is my first test creating content elements Documents and Settings All Users Documents My PictureskSample Browse Ej Position Press the Save document button Now the image is uploaded to the webserver and attached to the new page content element This should look like this if everything went fine 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 27 Jee et Winteripg gs PA A St Soe Inserting another content element Back in the Page module the new content element is clearly shown j iu rd a E permet ah B LER CREDE TE chs PARE a eae DATE ae Move page New content T Hello world This is my first test creating content elements Edit in Rich Text Editor Notice Missing the thumbnail If you don t see a nice little thumbnail of the image here TYPO3 is probably not configured correctly for using ImageMagick This is most likely the case if you did not use the Windows Installer Package see the install section of this tutorial Please refer to the information on installation found on typo3 org and the install mailing list archives You can complete this tutorial without these features working though Click the button New content to create another content element with a bullet list after this one 7S Bullet list PS 4 single bullet list FA Table
66. ermissions to on that will make green stars over the full line see image below Of course if you want to really know the ins and outs of this go to the Inside TYPOS3 document here you will get the hairy explanation Probably the best way to show you how page permissions should be set is to view the current permissions of the page tree This is done by the Access module 8 Getting Started 99 3 TYPO3 d Web Ed Quick Start Permissions n i age EY EIFS Biafeet Ej Ft Bigfeet j aT Home Path Fo Bigfeet view O O O OoOo List 7a we outh Section m User Track A feria mccum Elf Results Depth 3 levels M o ep tres nee z U0wner Group Everybody Fey Functions mH Last week FC Bigfeet PURO spin DUE i KEXEN WA Template 7 j eG Report results tap Home kk Ak adrnin eee KEXEN I Newsletter i i pat E Topscorer n E Hews HERE admin ME PXXXXX subscribers to kea Links S Guestbook PHAR admin Peek LxsoX Pre admin Fak PXXXXX pUEOBHORN xpi eE PXXXXX E Newsletter Pa gdmin PEUX XMXXX am outh Section i EERE S dmn i cid GENERAL xxxxx he Matches piece jonathan P xe GENERAL P xxx Een Training Schedule pceees jonathan i trta GENERAL E xxxxx be E Trainers Pee jonathan x GENERAL xxxxx Poo Player af the week PAE jonathan i GENERAL xxxxx doe Results PH ggdmin i RAR Hig i MMMM be n This week pA admin fk GENERAL i xxxxx c Last week pPokdek3e
67. ettes Not an impressive amount of fields In particularly not if you compare it with what you see the admin user E Page 10 Matches 7 Hide page Type Prae aA MS Layout Last updated New until Mo search Normal w f C o n Pagette Mo cache Cache expires B Defaut w TSconfig Shortcut made ed General Record Storage page Page Is root of website General options Start top Accessi Include subpages s m t 2 JQ Da 4 Show secondary options palettes The reason for this difference is that e a most of the fields in the pages table are marked as excludeFields hence cannot be edited by default and e b that the GENERAL group only allows access to some of these excludeFields according to the list this includes the Type Hide page Start and Stop fields So in fact we should be happy that Jonathan actually can edit the fields Type Hide page Start and Stop since he wouldn t have been able to do so if the GENERAL group didn t assign that specific permission 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 104 Record locking Maybe you have noticed in the process of logging in and out as different users that an icon like this can appear Matches ining Schedule lh ri This is just a warning to users that someone else is working on this page at the moment records are not truly locked in TYPOJ3 since access to a record should be allowed if pe
68. ettes E Show field descriptions Disable Rich Text Editor RTE The Text field will now look like any ordinary form field Text P align center gt This is lt B gt rmy first x B test lt I gt creating content 2 T gt lt U gt elements lt U gt lt P gt xtupalizt Eig FELINK 21 gt to Guestbookk LIMNK This is the first line This is the second line a lt typolist gt mi T Getting Started 36 X TYPO3 First of all you can see that the link to the Guestbook page was made by a TYPO3 specific tag link combined with the page id This makes it very easy for people without the RTE to create links as well This is simple enough to write by hand Note The internal lt link gt tag is converted to a proper HTML lt a gt tag when the page is generated Apart from that you can see the bullet list has been converted to a series of lines encapsulated in lt typolist gt tags also custom TYPO3 tags These are also converted to a real bullet list by the template engine when the page is generated later on The very first line contains regular HTML markup for the bold italic and underlining plus center alignment of the whole paragraph Other kinds of links You can create links to local files and external webpages even links directly to a specific content element on a page see the page Last week for an example and figure out how by yourself Finally links to email addresses can be c
69. f this standard template which is from the time where lt font gt tags were mainly used Finally we find configuration for the newsletter plugin 3 This was needed to make sure people didn t need to first receive an email with a link before they could subscribe Then the danish language was configured 4 and the Login User Tracking feature enabled 5 This was just a short description Remember that these options does not speak for themselves You will need more knowledge from various source like TSref before you understand them fully For now you can just conclude that the Setup field is apparently the place to add such stuff And this stuff is called TypoScript The Object Browser As a final note to the Setup field for now will introduce the Object Browser Template Tools Ej FC Bigfeet TypoScript Object Browser Path FO Bigfeet CURRENT TEMPLATE gt NEW SITE based on standard OBIECT TREE Browse Setup v OL ALL J SETUP ROOT Ej confia Ej includeLibs E plugin frameset 2PAGE E 10 COBJ ARRAY ie typeNumJ 1 _ bgInng uploads tf beckback jpg ties badyTag zB D bgtolor DCE794 link black vlink black alink gray gt enm Los admiPanel 21 3 language dk E headerD ata e stylesheet stylesheet css This tool shows visually the object tree of the TypoScript from the Setup field If you noticed the TypoScript line for the danish language configuration page config langua
70. f uploading one image at a time by the Browse button you can select multiple files already on the server 2 Images T GIF JPG JPEG TIF BMP RCH Tas ONG Rok EJ TYPO3 Element Brov Microsoft Internet Explorer Folder Tree r les 6 ES tileadmins n age Archive jag Image Archive E E E Mso 20matchsz ipa Info 640x480 pixels EE girls_soccer_team jipa H Info 640x480 pixels After saving the files are attached to the record Notice that contrary to what you might think the files are now moved to the uploads pics folder where TYPO3 stores images attached to page content elements EN Getting Started 87 3 TYPO3 1 Images Soccer 2Omatch O1 jpg girls soccer team _O1 jpqg girezl sacc match 1 jpg Soccer 2 match O1 jpq GIF JPS JPEG TIF BMP PCs TGA PAG PDF AI girls soccer team O1 jpg girsl sacc match O1 jpq Browse ual Notice that there are really a lot of options related to images in TYPO3 Enable Show secondary options and see for yourself 2 Position Below center we ie ies oe xus Bi Columns No rows Border H 9 no ORB 2 width pixels Lh j Height pixels d E Link Click enlarge O H 09 p qualite o Effects m Frames Default d ES Mane iv Z Homey ive 2 caption alan The most important option is the Position selector 1 With this you tell TYPO3
71. find that necessary and press Send new status And your To Do list is now blank just waiting for the next job Finalizing the workflow Back as the admin user you will see that the To Do task has been returned to you now 5 Tasks TUS News Inbox 1 To Dos When you click the item title here you will see the details Click the edit pencil in order to review the content Record related to this instance This is sundays game n Getting Started 112 3 TYPO3 os Guasch re CLER a a Mi mp Stop Accessi a Iw v 2 36 1 4 2003 Apart from checking the content of the news item a little tame here isn t it you should also determine whether this element is worthy of a position on the front page That field was not accessible to the news user it is an excludeField When you are happy with the item you activate the final stage by selecting Finalize workflow in the Add Status selector Add comment Pass on to another usergroup ee um oon eee oe 2 2 5 ye ni n ura i Done The last thing now is to dump the To Do item in the garbage bin Simply check it Done and select the action Delete marked To Do items TYPO 3 Getting Started 113 Configuring a workflow A workflow like the one we have just cycled through is configured as a record in the page tree root As with all records in the page tree root you will have to be admin to edit and create then mv pid om Workflo
72. from those the group can also contain DB mounts and File mounts which will then apply to all users that are members Modules Looking at the access lists you will see that 1 membership of this group will grant access to the Web Page and List module unfortunately you will have to know that these codes are the equivalents of the names you know from the menu Tables modify Secondly the tables that jonathan and christine are allowed to edit are listed 2 Now can that be true Can they only view the pages and page content tables Well let s try and log in as jonathan again and then try to create a new element 3 TYPO3 i web layout web view web list web txloginusertrack M1 Items Page Pagecontent Website user Website usergraup Domain Items Page Pagecontent Website user Website usergroup Domain Items Standard Advanced External LIRL Shortcut Mat in menu Type TScontig JS stop Stop page tree Is root of website General Record Storage Hide page Start Stop Layout Getting Started 102 uth Section New record E Matches m 3 Shaw Edit Mew pe E Info 1 Copy i Rela ai eld ou More options Hide Page after Visibility settings Create a new page EO page eder Delete Hof Pore eS How interesting only pages and page content elements could be created No users no guest book e
73. g a workflow eese 114 HRequirements eseeessesseeseeee nennen 117 Where to go next 1 eeeeeeeeeee eere 119 Getting Started 1 Introduction What does it do This tutorial will introduce you to the basic principles of TYPO3 You will get started hands on with your first TYPO3 website After this tutorial you will have an idea of the capabilities of TYPO3 as well as complexities involved This tutorial will require you to install some software If you just want to get a feel for TYPO3 before installing anything you should take a look at the demo site at hittp demo typo3 com first Professional creation of templates and development with TYPO3 in general are not covered in detail in this document That is done in the next tutorial Modern Template Building Part 1 and basically the remaining body of literature on TYPO3 development Screenshot The example website in this tutorial is for a football club called FC Bigfeet The website looks like this 1FC Biefeet Microsoft Internet Explorer OX File Edit view Favorites Tools Help BP Qe ix a A E Search 5 Favorites A media B m us Links 4 Internet With this simple website you will learn to Edit and create pages content on pages insert images tables bullet lists links etc Create password protected areas of the website e Insert special
74. ge dk you can clearly see the logic of this tree view Notice that TypoScript is really not a scripting language with control structures but rather a declarational configuration language which creates an information hierarchy used internally to instruct the template engine what to do and in which order much like the Registration Database in Windows If TYPO3 has any scripting language it is PHP itself Therefore TypoScript is not a new proprietary technology that should have been XSLT instead or so rather TypoScript is an unavoidable and in that case brilliant configuration language to bind external parts together Such as content templates PHP and XML or whatever But well you will have to learn it of course But there really is no alternative and the degree to which you want to use TypoScript is partly up to you But you will know more from other tutorials about this Back to work If you Enable Object Links bottom of page you can even change the values from this great visual overview t Getting Started 74 X TYPO3 Crap lines ud Enable object link v Constants display Plain substitution default m Click the property you want to edit E admPanel 21 a Llanguane J dk o 3 i Change the value and save EDIT OBJECT PROPERTY VALUE nage config language s usi Its that easy Now how could you know what this option means Well you will still need a little more background knowledge but the
75. h is required to be the primary language of all plugins If a translation is available you can normally activate it by editing the Setup field of the template record of your website and insert this code line page config language dk This will activate the danish dk language and the form will now look like this TYP O 3 Getting Started 66 Timela C Parties I int Age 5 10 years m LIdfgir tilmelding ll Afmeld alle nyhedsbreve You can read more about template records in the Template section of this tutorial For now I ll just leave this example as is without any explanation since this a whole science in itself So you will Know about it later For the actual steps took watch the video TYP O 3 Getting Started 67 Backend modules Tracking backend users What about tracking the login users Can we do that Well yes of course Actually there already is an extension which provides a backend module for that So like before import the extension Login User Tracking from TER E SvsInfo ec xEsinto BD 0 4 ME Login User Tracking loQnuserbrack 1 0 Install it Make updates it will add a statistics table to the database BR x Login User Tracking loginusemrack na ASE Install extension Center Actions sys action 1 0 6 M LIL5 EN i mis Lm a oa And reload the backend And the new backend module is installed under the Web main module E Quick Start ser
76. hen going to the right domain This is a three step process e Make sure that the DNS of all domains point to your webserver trivial non TYPO3 related issue TYP O 3 Getting Started 83 e Configure your web server to direct all requests for the three domains to the directory with the TYPO3 website quickstart now a visit to any of the three domains will end on the FC Bigfeet main site Finally create a domain record for each domain you want to end up on the Fan Club website This is done by adding a new element to the root page Fan Club E QuickStart New record More options Then enter the main domain name Domain b fanclub fe bigfeet corn Transfer parameters to Redirect URL Save the record Create another one This time for the alternative domain www fanclub fc bigfeet com Since this is basically a domain we use for safety we want it to redirect to the fanclub fc bigfeet com domain This is done like this Xj Redirect to http v ffanclub fc bigfeet com Wea XI open pocuments Path Fan club TE Domain NEW Disable H www Fanclub fc bigfeet cam Save it and view the page in the list module Fan club zs Page 3 Pagetitla Domain z Domain al IE www Fanclub fe bigfeet com em ud fanclub fe bigfeet com Template 1 Template title es H HEW SITE based on standard Nicely the two records are found in the List module display of th
77. his is used with the other box so the user is directed to the access restricted section directly In this case we will just leave it empty which will submit the form to the same page the front page On the front end you will see this As you can see we are already logged in as newuser You can try to logout and login and logout and as you like It should work Create restricted page Now you have e Users and groups in place Alogin form in place please see the Template section on constants for important information on configuring the storage page id for the login form e You need to restrict some access Let s restrict the whole section called Youth Section ore options d Select the access to be only for the members of the Team group I YP O 3 Getting Started 48 2 Access Hide at lagin Show at any login And save it The page icon changes Try to hold the mouse over the icon Youth Section i Matches lid 5 Access Team A Player of the week Hi i dule See Access restricted to the Team group Try to log in and log out Works Should do so Oops Try to log out and view one of the sub pages to the Youth Section page You will find that those pagescan be seen So only the Youth Section page was protected Yes that s true because you need to set an additional flag Include subpages Edit the page header and set the flag bottom of form Inc
78. hive search iv And where are the news element stored Well think back to the guest book News elements are elements like any other database element TYPO3 handles The best way to get a complete overview of the elements found on a page is by the List module Let s try that pm E GD Quickstart FO Bigfeet Home Mews Page A View pere hee odio Er B FC Bigfeet Pagecontent 1 i tap Home SEE A Header Mi dm NEWS ARCHIVE News 231 E 5 Search s oO Title E AB youth Rectan ie First victory the sweetest E Results ae d Mew board in the club io Links m New website launched GY Contact And how to edit one Mews 3 Title _ Getting Started 61 3 TYPO3 Path FO Bigfeet Home Mews ii News 1 First victo ry the zw eete st Hide Bik Time Date 20 50 31 3 2003 Title First victory the sweetest Teaser text amnem locum quem calcaverit vestigium pedis vestri vobis tradam sicut locutus sum Mosi And create a new Teaser text The Screenshots speak for themselves think News workflow Now what if like another person to write the news articles for me And what if want to review the news articles before they get published Can TYPO3 do that This is a situation that calls for a workflow Later in this tutorial exactly that is described for a simple situation like the one we need here So hang on Getting Started 62 3 TYPO3 Web applications
79. hown the page 8 Getting Started 49 3 TYPO3 Special content elements Previously you have been introduced to page content elements in general So you know how these work In this section would like to show just a few examples of special content elements that are nevertheless quite popular For instance how can you make an email form Or a search box to search your site content What about a guest book Well just read on and you will see Email form We already have an email box on the website If you go the the page Contact you will see such a form Enter your name here Hew content Contact us E Mame namezinput 40 Enter your name here Email email input 40 Address address textarea 40 5 Contact me tez check formtype mail2submit Send form html enabled hidden 1 subject hidden This is the subject Example content By the way notice the Thank you page that is a sub page to the Contact page Now edit the element This is the form you see Mame name input 40 Enter your name here erie emrnail2zinput 4 Address addrezz textarea 40 5 Contact me ty check farmtupe mail submit Send form html enabled hidden 1 Em subject hidden This is the subject i Example content E TYP 0 3 Getting Started 50 gGet conte The content is apparently even more code style than with the Table type content element But as usual click the w
80. ick both the page icon and the page title and that it makes a difference If you click the page title you will see the current module display some content in the right frame t Getting Started 12 3 TYPO3 z P03 d Web Pags A Views E3 List iii Info MIM Access E Functions MES Template File Filelist fl Irnages Ej Doc a User Task center 4 Setup P Tools Reed User Admin x Ext Manager mi DB check pir Configuration i Install Fw lan Sg e Quickstart Er H FC Bigfeet EL Home Ex ES Guestbook Ere H Sitemap SR MINE mnis EE j This weer Los Le Last cod H E Contact nie B Log iri E a RE Team pages dd Em Lisers E Mews items draft page hl Reload the tree fram server s X This week Path FC Bigfeset Resultz This week g ER EE e s Pagecontent ie Text WES Az Index Yes Results Het in hostias pacificorum boves hircos quinque agnos anniculoz gi oblatia Ahiezer filii amp misaddai die filiorum ser Phagaihsl Filius chr acetabulum argenteum adpender siclos fialam argenteam habenter ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque pl conspersa oleo in sacrificium mon adpendens decem siclos plenum Agnos anniculas quinque hasc fur Amisaddai die undecimo princeps Phagaihsl filius Ochran obtulit ace iw Pe od ete arte ts ee ee Her ER ER sub gt In this case the Page module is the active one and then you will see the content on the page shown in the
81. ides the most lowlevel access to the records one a d Install Lecce em page While the other modules are mainly specialized in certain operations on E EF Lan ee certain database tables this module provides ultimate access to the bare records M Edit Page ID Now for the second time and this time really mean it congratulations TYPO3 has been installed the frontend is working and the backend has let you in You are ready to play around More details about installation Please note that this stepwise guide to installation only took you through the most basic requirements and is designed to get you quickly started for testing and development purposes When you need to install and configure TYPO3 for production environments or serious development you must read and understand the background issues described in the document Installation and Upgrade of Typo3 Further there is a mailing list and archive for seeking help on installation issues RN Getting Started 11 xTYPO3 General principles Backend and frontend As you know from the installation TYPO3 is divided into two areas the backend and the frontend While the frontend is for everyone out there on the web it is the website TYPO3 produces only you and your content contributers are allowed access to the backend the administration of the website A username and password is always required Backend modules In the backend there are a lot of modules in the menu to the left When
82. ii utrumque plei aureum adpendens decem siclo arietes quinque hircos quinque Amisaddai die undecimo prince secus A E CLERC MES eei The technical implementation of parents and children This is for people who wants to understand how the tree structure works technically in the database Technically the relationship between a page and sub pages is established by the field called pid parent id page id in the pages table in the database the pid field of This week page will contain the uid value of the page called Results X TYPO3 Getting Started 14 By holding the mouse over the page icon of the Results page for a second you will see this title text appear ab Results TER p L Timi Shorkcuk to page f This tells us that the page Results has the uid number 4 We know that the This week page had the uid 13 and the pages Last week and Report results have uids 12 and 11 If we go to the module phpMyAdmin and browse the pages table which contain all the page header records we should be able to see this relationship quite easily d Web Tal 4 p B Page i T uid pid tstampf tile doki JASER ces List i ee Hjem Ret Slet 1 0 10491909F C Bigfeet MM access O Oo t3 quickstart 38 Ret Slet 2 4 10491338 contact Ei Functions i be groups H Template amp be sessions Het Slet 3 1 180481334 Links Z3 File be users ES
83. ike OK and press the button Now you will see a form for a news item appear News 5 Time Date b v 2 36 1 4 2003 Tide F This is sundays game Teaser text That was a great game This item has just been created for you as a part of the Begin task now status you added This element is attached to the task now and all you need to do is enter the content When that is done and you press Save document and close you are returned to the Task Center Pressing the title of the To Do Item again allows you to see the updated details t Getting Started 111 3 TYPO3 Status log Instance 1 Status information tomments and details Begin task now DE news Joey Newsz 03 04 03 01 39 3 rnin Instance is currently targeted at news Joey News ial related to this instance a This is sundays game As you can see the element is attached here and by clicking the edit pencil you can edit it again until you are ready to inform the admin user that now it is all done Add Status Pass on to another usergroup v Select target user or group Sender admin Your Name Ea E MN Finished When the item is edited and ready to be published in your opinion you change status to Pass on to another user group this could also have been used to pass the task on to a colleague if someone else should rather solve the task select the recipient in this case the Sender add a note if you
84. inta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium mortarialum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso et in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii Amisaddai die undecimo princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Gchran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium rmnartarialum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso First of all the field Type 1 tells you the type of page content element In this case Text It could also be Table like you saw earlier or Image or Text w Image etc See for yourself Each content element type has it s own look and fields for content and by inserting different elements you can achieve great diversity on your website The Header field 2 contains the header and the Text field 3 the bodytext On the webpage this corresponds to t Getting Started 23 3 TYPO3 Results P ath FFA Rigfeet Resultz This week Du TET TE Because you saved by the bottom Save document and view page you will automatically have the frontend window shown to you in a few seconds What TYPO3 did was to send the change to the webserver update the database with the new information then clear the page cache and regenerate the page the change
85. is all there Currently no status has been assigned from the news user Accepting the task Log in as the news user Tip If you start a new browser window of Microsoft Internet Explorer from the icon on your desktop contrary to using CTRL N then you will be able to log in as another user the news user and thus have two different windows running as a user each This is possible because Internet Explorer doesn t share cookies between those two windows In the Task Center the news user will see this Task overview Tasks Ty Quick Note YOUR TO DO ITEMS 5 Tide Workflow Deadline Done a Mews Mews 07 04 03 01 36 4 days 5 Recent Pages T3 Tasks CREATE NEW TO DO TU News Workflows 5 Inbox 1 To Dos Nice The News task is there Click it in the left frame You will now see the details as you did before as admin user tn Getting Started 110 3 TYPO3 TO DO DETAILS Heng Created by admin rour Name 03 04 03 01 37 1 min Deadline 07 04 03 01 36 4 days Description Write the story about the match sunday Workflow Mews Workflow description Create new news item Status log Instance 1 There are no entries in the log yet Instance is currently targeted at x news Joey News Add Status Begin task now iw Select target user or group v Status note LES og Send new status Cancel As the news user you select Add Status to Begin task now then enter a status note l
86. ish v English Chinese Eesky Czech Espanol Spanish Suomi Finnish Francais French Italiano Italian Lithuanian gt jane Nederlands Dutch Morsk Morwegian Task center Polski Polish af setup Portugu s Portuguese pg i Romanian Swedish Slovenski Slovenian Just select another language than English and press the Save Configuration button in the bottom of the page Reload the backend interface and you will see the modules in Danish instead Web EQ Quick Start Side t m mI lt a mI Bu S Ra HQ Users Login log v ES E T youn Sti FC BigfeetUsers n EE auth Section T na Wi inte E a Results EE Adgang OO O E Links lgd Contact Ea Funktioner B B Ed 02 04 02 12 02 5 min newuser min 3 Eiskabelon i E E Eng 02 04 03 12 02 5 min john John Bae O min 3 a Getting Started 69 gt TYP03 Templates During this lengthy document you might have wondered time and again how can change that green background color Or how can put in my own logo And the fonts want Times not Arial and Verdana Before we look at these issues you must understand something fundamental about how most CMSs work they separate content from presentation This means the pages and content are stored in the database without any colors or fonts or background images attached to them That information is instead located in the template and stylesheets which normally apply
87. izard icon and you can edit the content with a tool that makes it all much easier FORMS WIZARD Preview of element Element type Type Input field NN Label Mame H j Required Type Input field Label Email X Email Re p Special configuration for mail forms Send button label HTML mode enabled Subject Recipient email H E x 2 Detailed configuration Field name E Size 4n Maxi Value Enter your name here ES 4 Field email Send form BH This is the subject 6 enter yourmglemail addrez E As you can see the codes are transformed into this nice form Here each field in the form is created by visual controls For a field you need to enter a label of course 1 and a field type 2 These are the visible parts You also have to give the field an internal name 3 which is the one that will be shown in the email the recipient gets In the case of Input field types you can also enter a default value 4 For all email forms there are three common values to be set The name of the send button 5 the subject line of the email being sent 6 and finally the email address of the person that should receive the email 7 This person is normally you Or whoever on your team that is supposed to respond to feedback Adding a selector box Now let s try to add a select box where people can select an item to receive In FC Bigfeet we have year calendars the club magazine and
88. k gdmin iE i KENN kN Report results eee Sdn HE age H xXXXX E ES Topscorer Pa ss dein TE Hg XXXXX pea adrnin es te PXXXXX pte adrnin Sue ru PXXXXX EEEE adrnin Sue na PXXXXX pCR xe fhe PXXXXX aS am cm acm cm cn cn cn n cn cn am am am am am acm acm um um uem uen uen uen uon uen uen uon unl E RETeam pages pad jdn BARA KAXXA ren Images Peek Senin Peek XXXXx iz Parties Peek admin Peek XXXXx im Lost and found Pokdek3ck admin eye XXXXX m Club Member messa KERE drin EE Egr H XXX as Member guestbook Pack admin Peek XXXXX ve ig Users Pk admin i Rake XXXXX E Sp Mews items draft eee ggdmin RE gH XXXXX When you look at the ownerships of the pages you can see that jonathan actually owns a few pages He might have been the creator of those When you create a page you become its owner automatically But the main point is that the group GENERAL is the owner group of the pages that Jonathan and Christine have access to and since they are both members of this group they can access the pages alone by this fact still they are always restricted to work within their DB mounts The only thing they cannot at least christine since she doesn t own the This week page is to delete the page with a membership of the GENERAL group You can see that when you click one of the pencils GENERAL PERMISSIONS page content page page pages Ow ner Everybody d L LI L Save
89. kstart index php 4d713 1 In TYPO3 every page is stored in the database in a table called pages and each of these page records has a unique number uid Here the parameter called id was set to the value 13 called This week in the page tree and apparently that must have been the uid number of the page Further you can see the page content 2 is the same as you saw if you noticed in the left frame of the Page module when you clicked the title We will return to that Then notice the page header 3 here the title of the page we viewed is shown This week but the parent page in the page tree Results page child to the Results page parent is shown as well This communicates the logic of the page tree that the This week page is asub The final thing to notice is the menu in the left frame This clearly reflects the hierarchy we also saw in the page tree Quick Stark EI Fo Bigfeet E E L5 Guestbook H Sitemap E El Contact Log in E A Team pages Eg Users io Hews items draft page Results i This week Results Het in hostias pacificorum bove quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahieze Phagaihel filius Ochran obtulit a siclos fialam argenteam habenti enum simila conspersa oleo ir siclos plenum i incensa Agnos anniculos quinque haec 1 princeps f filiorum Aser Phagaihe adpendens centum triginta siclo pondus sanctuar
90. latio Ahiezer filii Amisaddal die undecima princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Ochran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclas flalam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo In sacrificium mortariolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incensa Results this week 5 Results last week week 14 a Local intranet The page content on that page is made up of three page content elements here numbered 1 3 And because each content element can have a different type you can create pages with very flexible structures In this case the page consists of a Text type content element then two Table type content elements Side note TYPO3 an element based CMS This method of constructing pages is a very foundational concept in most websites made by TYPO3 The method of putting together pages of content elements is also known from other CMSs today This makes TYPO3 an element based CMS It gives a lot of flexibility but yet it makes the pages consistently designed as it is one of the objectives of a CMS The alternative method is a more fixed approach where a page has a fixed number of content areas one for header bodytext and image for instance TYPO3 can do that as well it can allow for anything you like but most likely you don t want that in the end If you have some questions to professional implementation techniques for template designs content elements etc
91. lements no news elements Only pages and content elements Why this Well because Jonathan should not worry about anymore than this He is not the guy in charge of the news right Page types This field 3 dictates what page types Jonathan and Christine or members of GENERAL group should be able to select Let s make the Jonathan test again and edit a page header Hide page I Type Standard Standard JAduanced External URL Shortcut dMaotin menu Backend User Section Mount page With Jonathans login we try to create a sysFolder Will we succeed Errors 63 1 You cannot change the doktepe of page Matches to the desired value Continua Nope Sorry Jonathan Cannot do Allowed Excludefields This is a loooong long list But important And powerful But it takes a little background to get it When tables and fields are configured in TYPO3 in the internal global PHP array TCA some fields are marked as excludeFields This means that the fields are not allowed to be edited unless you have been granted special permission that is what the Allowed Excludefields list does This is easy to understand if you take a look at what jonathan sees when he edits a page header 8 Getting Started 103 3 TYPO3 L Page 10 Matches Hide page Type Standard PagetiHe Matches Alias General options Starti L T li e x ui Shaw secondary options pal
92. ling list for installation questions Getting Started 90 3 TYPO3 The List module and Clipboard The List module contains some very powerful features for managing the database content Let s just think about it for a moment All the page and page content related business went on in the Page module it was designed for that All template editing we did was done in the Template module it was designed for that But on the lower level behind the scenes the List module is the ultimate place to manage both pages page content elements template records domain records users and groups guest book items and whatever elements TYPO3 is capable of managing Using the List module effectively You might already have used the clipboard to move a content element from one page to another But let s see what happens behind the scenes Ley Fe Eigteet Results This week Pagecontent 3 Header Show i Eel FE eae satu as nr his week i Fe UE k 14 dea Last week 2 2 22 2 2 2 oy Info iY Report results Copy fut Paste after Teese es Tr 2p pf More options Hide Visibility settings ir Celer mm menu uem mm cmom Os om me come Gom mom wa vac Eo ols E Normal Copy EE Results in first division Copy 3 xl Clipboard 1 Clipboard 2 Clipboard 43 On the This week page we have three content elements View the page content with the List module enable the Clipboard
93. look of the paragraph _ Getting Started 34 3 TYPO3 Creating a bullet list You can create a bullet list just as easily Just click the Bulleted list icon and enter a few lines B m aBrIuU s i ean This is my first test cresting content elements e This is the first line This is the second line M Save and view the frontend will show Considerations about rich content As you can see this gives you two choices a Will you create bullet lists inline in the body text fields or b will you create them by separate content elements You can mix the two approaches Personally I find it absolutely most convenient to just create bullet lists inside of body text fields with the RTE but if someone with Microsoft Internet Explorer is going to edit the list it s usually very hard And you might have political reasons for not inserting bullet lists in body text keeping the body text clean The RTE in more details The Rich Text Editor may be very easy to use but it also poses a lot of technical challenges when you investigate the details There is extensive documentation available for the RTE Read more in depth about the RTE here and how to configure it Make links Hyperlinks are what glues the internet together some say In TYPO3 you already have links automatically made for you since the sheer creation of pages in the hierarchical structure of the page tree has generated the menu in the left frame auto
94. lude subpages Jola The page icon changes to include a double forward arrow this indicates that now all subpages are in fact protected as well EHE youth Section LI Matches Tip Include subpages affects not only the Access setting it also affects if a page is hidden or has a Start or Stop time set Thus you can also time or hide a whole section by using this setting The Access options Basically access restriction works as simple as this just select a website user group and that s it From that point you just handle which users are members of which groups Groups Ahh yes we have only one group right now The Team group If you add more groups then you can create different access rules for different users For instance john can be a member of Team and access the Team section irene could be a member of a new group used for access restriction of the Youth section and she would have access to that The newuser we created could be member of both groups and have access to both sections Why not try it out Go and play with it Finally the option Hide at login means that a page will not be visible when a user logs in This is useful if you have pages with information only relevant for users not yet logged in Of course the option Show at any login is the opposite that will enable the page for display for any user who is logged in No need to be a member of any particular group if you are logged in you are s
95. matically But you still might want to link from a piece of text to another page a file another website or an email address right This is very easy if you use the Rich Text Editor Simply mark the text and press the Insert Link icon TYP O 3 Getting Started 35 ef T c W I Hi Ti H uti I n i lI This is my first test casting content elements MiliLinlk to Guestbook This is the first line This iz the zacamd line Then click the title of the guest book page Insert Link dn Mo CUm M ECCE TUE Ur E eS Era Vc m aT Lo eee See um insert Edit Current Link None new link Remove link Page j File External URL Email m E QuickStart EE Fo Bigfeet Flay Horne ps E Hews fian E ud T sitemap Aun 5 Search A E Gl Er Er n and the text is linked This is my first test creating content elements Link to Guestbook amp This is the first line This is the second line In the frontend this will produce a link as you would expect Click it and you are taken to the page with the guest book Behind the scenes Before told you that it might be a problem to use the Rich Text Editor if you expect to edit the content in raw form later on You can simulate that by editing the whole content element and selecting the Disable Rich Text Editor option in the bottom of the form before editing anything t BY BY x ay e show secondary options pal
96. me field from a large number of records in one stroke of the pen Very comfortable You can do the same for both the Header and Type field at one time just use another edit pencil Pagecontent 3 s Header b zz Results in first division The result will be almost the same form but with an additional field s Getting Started 94 x TYPO3 i le em BH LREFRERS Results in first division his week from saturday SESS ESETE Se E D eee ee Pg Then you will guessed it only get to edit those two Path FC Bigfeet Results Last week MU Results in first divisian Powerful stuff Now do the math yourself for the rest of the buttons Play around with them now that you have the chance with this test website TYPO 3 Getting Started 95 Gei content rignht User Management Distributed maintenance The final steps in our efforts to get this website for FC Bigfeet running is to look at distributed maintenance a core requirement to a CMS We already discussed the difference between frontend and backend users and how backend users were located in the root of the page tree E dg Quick Start Qi ouickstart Page 2 lr Pagetitle io FC Bigfeet E Fan club Backend user 4 lh Username Backend users Three users already exist Let s see what they can do The best way to do this is to logout as admin and log in as one of these users one at a time All passwords are football fo
97. message board Ey m E Insert Ehe new page here Tem 2a P Enter a page title Pagetide Member guestbook F c Eas Save and close Then create page content es Create pag e cantent Select plugin Guestbook Getting Started 56 3 TYPO3 6 OB Mini news Mini news C Message board Adds a message board list style for C rx Discussion forum Add a threaded discussion forum tre ES f E Guestbook Adds a guestbook ta the pags And now just guess how easy it is to insert news and message boards And save the form you get POSTFORM i Notice the CODE field this contains some text codes which make the guest book appear a good reason for using the New content wizard to insert the element since they are preset then Of course you can enter a title and other content elements to the page but the main function is the insertion of this element Comments Add yourself And voila the guest book is there I filled in a test entry here x TYPO3 Getting Started 57 Where is the guest book content stored If you want to manage your guest book for instance remove unserious entries like mine above then you simply go to the Page module for the page and you will see all guest book elements listed in addition to the normal page content elements E Pagecontent Edit page header Move page Hew page HS NORMAL PE TE In
98. mm mm me mm omm mm mm mm mm mu mm mm mm mm mm me mm mm omm mm omm omm omm mm omm mm mm mm mmm The final installation in c apache takes up approximately 140 MB of disc space and includes thousands of files This is not all TYPO3 remember both Apache MySQL and PHP was installed RN Getting Started 7 x TYPO o Typo3 QuickStart Package 3 5 0 Setup EJ You can now start Typo3 via Ehe Windows sEartmenu In the START menu of Windows you can now find TYPOS3 installed start MySQL start Webserver Typo3 Backend start servers before Tvpo3 Backend alternative LIR L start servers before Tvpo3 Frontend start servers before All Programs D LI Tvpo3 Frontend alternative URLI start servers before Typos InstallTaal start servers before Tvpo3 InstallTool alternative LIRL start servers before ape D f DEGO i i rm Typo Ld Uninstall 6 Start servers Before you can play with TYPO3 start the two servers start MySQL and start Webserver When you start the web server Apache you will see an old DOS window Don t close this window it must be open otherwise the web server will just shut down again You can minimize it of course Next time you start your computer and want to work with TYPO3 you will have to start the web server again MySQL has been installed as a service has a little traffic light icon in the task bar and will be running already T Hit your web browser Type in http
99. n place You have not in details at least learned how to implement your own custom design That is what all of the remaining tutorials is about almost so the FC Bigfeet site is only meant as an hands on introduction customizing templates is the big science not covered here Facts about templates and possibilities Just to nail it to your mind for sure this are some facts about templates in TYPO3 e You can implement any design you like the way you like You can have any number of menu levels e You can have multiple sites multiple templates e You can have pages in any number of languages You can have multiple content areas columns on a page e You can integrate all kinds of external data sources through PHP written plugins e You can add any number of web applications to run on various pages in TYPO3 e You can extend everything with PHP with full backwards compatibility You can do anything some things are just more straightforward most typical things other things are more tricky less typical things If you need a look at the feature list of TYPO3 you can find it here on typo3 com Develop professional websites with TYPO3 The tutorial Modern Template Building Part 1 is the document to read if you want to get into the template building as it is s Getting Started 85 3 TYPO3 recommended for newbees on a professional level That document is a sequel to this one so after finishing this tutorial just
100. n select an ordinary Text element type and enter some content BA border column heate Notice the content of the field Columns from the secondary options of the Type field it has the value Border This is precisely the setting that will make this content element appear in the Border column and not the Normal column This field was preset before creation of this form Press Save document and close button Back in the Page module you will see the new content nicely presented in the right column as expected Welcome to FC Bigfeets homepage border column header Et in hostias pacificorum boves duos arietes Same content here quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculos quinque Edit in Rich Text Editar haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp rmisaddai die undecima princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius i E6 L m o lbERBabBB bLEiidaanm e 9 m4 jam MNT aegis TEUER But it should also be displayed on the website at the right position So check the frontend as well Jfeet Links Contact 3j And that was the case right away TYP O Getting Started 80 Gei content right Understanding Page TSconfig Now the little change we did in the TSconfig field of the root page was quite interesting This was a piece of configuration code which had some effect on how the backend works in that particular branch of the page tree Page TSconfig is thus a powerful concept that allows
101. nt please don t wonder about the use of English words mixed in If you want to understand the English documents later on it s important to get used to the English termini from the very start Dedicated to would like to dedicate this tutorial to All my TYPOS3 friends have got from the snowboard tours meeting you and realizing there are people behind the emails is worth it all e My most lovely wife Rie thanks for all the patience and love you have shown even when the work load needed your shoulders as well My savior Jesus Christ thanks for creating such a wonderful world with all its potential for us human beings to create beautiful things as well Thanks for being the way and the truth and the life Happy reading kasper s Getting Started 3 3 TYPO3 Installation TYPO3 is a web application based on PHP4 and MySQL Therefore you must have access to a web server with PHP and MySQL in order to try out TYPO3 If you already have access to a web server with PHP4 and MySQL then you can select Installation A below you will have to download a zip file unzip it on your server space and that s it If you do not have a web server then select Installation B that is a Windows Installer that installs all needed software Apache MySQL PHP4 and TYPO3 in a few clicks and removes it all afterward if you like to Installation A zip file 1 Download the QuickStart Package Go to typo3 org to get the quicksta
102. ntent element two categories and an age selector 8 Getting Started 65 3 TYPO3 Pagecontent 1 Ele Header ag Tm Subscribe to our newsletter Newsletter Categories 21 i Title ig Match results A Parties A little more than this has to be done changes to the template but you can see that on the video where the process is shown live And of course it is documented in the Configuration section of the manual found on typo3 org The resulting form will look like this Insubscribe all newsletters The final point is that the extraction of the subscriber list is simply provided by a backend module that followed the plugin in the extension dweb Ed Quick Start EFE FE Bigfeet Ej Home Newsletter categories v Newsletter Path FO Bigfeet Homs Mewsletter E _ Dh rn As you can see when the backend module is activated the page containing the web application on the frontend is activated and the list is shown This also tells us another interesting thing we could add newsletter subscriptions to not justone page but any number of pages on the site and still have a perfect order and control over the situation Thanks to thepage tree framework For more information on advanced extracts of subscribers see the manual for the Newsletter Subscription Module Changing the language of the subscription form Many plugins are translated to languages other than English However Englis
103. ntent in multiple columns 78 Creating another website in the database 82 Controlling multiple domains 83 Starting up NEW websites seseesssessss 85 Template disclaimer cccccccseccseeesseeeseeeseeeeaeees 85 Image ALCNIVES cceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeneeeeeeeneenens 87 Managing files in TYPOS cccccsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 87 Browsing the image archive sssssss 89 Uploading images to the archive 89 Note on image processing in TYPOJ3 90 The List module and Clipboard 91 Using the List module effectively 91 The numeric clipboard pads managing many elements eeseeeseesssesseee nennen nennen nnns 91 Selective editing seeesseeeeesssss 93 User ManagetlieriE ussceo incra eiicus ui SUR Eas xH i E rE gr nw Ern duE KE 96 Distributed maintenance seeeeessesee 96 Backend USETS 96 Setting up user permissions 97 Colle 101 Creating a new user for the Fan Club site 105 Simple news workflow 108 Starting a workflow process 108 Configurin
104. number 27 assigned during creation The page is still blank we need to create some page content elements on the page Creating page content elements In the Page module click the page title of Topscorer in the page tree and then the button Create page content Getting Started 26 STYPO3 n L News XL es Guestbook a B Sitemap aona aaaea aaan aa i bo iius Search H E Youth Section uo NORMAL ER Results E rs This week Create page content Tm Report results Show hidden content elements Fe Topscorer Pe i vens Immediately you will see a nice form like this below This allows you to select a page content elementtype as said earlier different content element types create different kinds of content on the web page Let s create Text with image below New content element Topscaorer Please select which kind of page content you wish to create Typical page content cy Regular text element 7 E A regular text element with header and bodytext fields E5 Text with image below 1 to Regular text element with a field which can contain any number af images which are positioned below the text de Ex Text with image to the right EJ Like above but with the images placed to the right af the text with the text wrapping around the images HE Images only OO any number of images aligned in columns and rows with caption Like the image options above but without text Right away we get this form Now
105. on Module under Frontend Plugins 2 Newsletter Subscription Module da heWwrletter subsonotion 1 0 1 EE E Install extension t opo 1 0 8 Install it accept the Make updates which will automatically create the needed database tables and fields y SPORT OC POLE LS USE WEE LL rouse PANON Presets uid int 11 unsigned DEFAULT O HOT NULL auto increment pid int 11 unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT MULL tithe varchar 40 DEFAULT NOT NULL presetcontent blob HOT NULL PRIMARY KEY uid KEY pid pid TYPEZMyISAM Clear cache This extension requests the cache to be cleared when it is installedfremaved Clear all cache Male ue In the list of Loaded Extensions you can now see the new extension has been added Extension Manager iw order by Category v pups Loaded extensions Meny Display shy extensions Li 3 Co P Guestbook t guest 1 0 5 t uz Newsletter Subscription Module da newsletter subscriotion 1 0 1 Now how do l use it Well it s such a luck that the author of the extension actually made a manual So on typo3 org you canaccess the index table and there is a detailed guide to the creation of both the subscription form the categories and how to get the list of subscribers out of the system again Of course I m not going to repeat all that There was a reason for writing the manual of the extension in the first place But in short have created a new page a co
106. oot dh web Ed ouickstart GP Quickstart amp pres SUP EB FC Bigfeet 5 owe Et E a Meroe Pagetitle fl info cm E E Youth Section Fo Bigfeet BH Access at Results ce EEEE Re us 5 Link s Backend user 4 ME Template EHE ocn EID ES File Fa B Log in bu SpE E eE AAE Team pages s jonathan GP Images 2 Eu Images Heros 3 Doc xen Parties 2 ne admin El a User NS buste foli Backend usergroup 2 Task center ane Club Member message boa Grouptitle sep ig leer ae P Tools L4 News items draft page Pe News editar The three blue backend users 1 are configured so they can maintain a little part of the website each more about that in the users section later on The backend users groups 2 would have been blue as well if the Access lists flag had not been set forgive me for that Finally the admin user 3 the one we are working as is red because he has total and unrestricted access to any part of the system Editing a user or group As you can see we already have a sysFolder with a user group and two users The user group Team is really nothing but the title of it Not settings or anything The users john and irene are configured basically the same just a username password and membership of a group Website user 2 Llsername Ahh that s right You haven t used the List module yet now how hard can it be Just click the icon beside John s name and the good ol
107. ople have access But this warning is a nice touch since it helps people to avoid conflicts Creating a new user for the Fan Club site Well with all our brilliant knowledge we can now create a user who should be in charge of the second website in our database the Fan Club site Step 1 Create the user Users are just records create a Backend user record Backend user 4 Username E ar christine Rem jonathan reer ue news S ERES l i m admin Als ay Enter the username password football group membership and the DB mount TR Backend user NEW Username k phil 2 Password poke e e 2 Group Selected Items GENERAL GENERAL Mews editar 2 DE Mounts Fan club 2 B Page Save phil Step 2 Check the new user In the User Admin module check that phil is correctly granted access to the Fan Club site _ N Getting Started 105 3 TYPO3 USER INFO RO 0 05 py g IE T phil E ps T Fi du s x Back to vao Filernaunts wW ebrnounts e user has no read access to these DEB mounts Oops typical error The page permissions are not with us here But that is simple to change go to the Access module Step 3 Set the correct Page Permissions Edit the permissions for the root page of the site Een EQ Quickstart ars Bj 3 FC Bigfeet lew i E R a a up im p i EP User Track E DES lm dino cae E dem Page 2 atts a
108. ot page FC Bigfeet Getting Started 78 TYPO3 E Quicksta More options Hide Visibility settings Edit page header Delete E Reload the tree from server Add 3 to the list as shown here TSconfig mod web view type 1 mod SHARED colPos_list 0 3 This will instruct the Page module to display both the Normal 0 and Border 3 content column If you want to know about possible options to set click the TS button to the right In the window that pops up find mod SHARED TYPOSCRIPT PROPERTY LOOKUP ivf TSFE GO wf nod GO if SHARED J G5 um E E This will show you the property colPos list including a description of what it does It even also allows you to click the property and it will be transferred back to the TSconfig field TYPOSCRIPT PROPERTY LOOKUP mod SHARED Propert Data type Descnpton colPos_ list list af integers This option let blank don t da should be disg anything Web gt Paqge Bu default the Save the page header and go the Page module you will now see an additional content column shown zd Pagecontent Edit page header Move page New content rmm NORMAL BORDER Wie Tied zz Text Wo HAT Index Yes Welcome to FC Bigfeets homepage Ft in hastiar nsecificaeicn Banas dines sriatas nimaning Kirras aninag aamac Now try to add a content element here Just click the New icon 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 79 The
109. p admin oreedob SEEMERGUD Cn XXXaX TUE TREE UT jonathan GENERAL ex XXXGX at aa han Jonathan fet GENERAL rEg XXXGX JTUDARPOT lie NUT jonathan GENERAL 4 XXXXX at aaa Lt TRE NUT Lad Plauer of the week jonathan GENERAL x XXXaxX xen deor tK This clearly shows what we would expect the file mount and the webmounts as we experienced them earlier Jonathan cannot delete the main page Youth Section though The User Admin module is a great tool to evaluate user settings compare users etc Indispensable when you have many users and want to make sure you have control over their rights n Getting Started 101 3 TYPO3 Groups Let s look at the GENERAL group which jonathan and christine are both members of what is inside it GrouptiHe GENERAL Lock to domain d Include Access Lists Modules Selected web web layout web view Tables listing Selected 2 Tables modify Selected Pagecontent Page types Selected Standard Advanced External URL EH Shortcut ot in menu Allowed eaxcludefhelde Type Hide page Start Stop Pagecantent Pagecontent Pagecontent Pagecantent Pagecantent Paqgecontent Pagecantent Hide Type Width pixels Border Click enlarge Align Recursive I The Include Access Lists is the important point to notice here since that is the reason why we have all these options listed Apart
110. page E Quick Start H H Fo Bigfeet EHI Home Gal GS BS my results iv menu Path FO Bigfeet Results i Search H E Youth Sectian EHI Results 3 bas This week 2 Type Shortcut m Pagetide Results Shortcut to page The Shortcut mode is a so called secondary option to the Shortcut to page field that means the field is only shown in the palette top frame when you click the More options icon see picture above Help at your fingertips Now what might all the other interesting page types do Well you can find out directly if you just click the little icon close to the field t Getting Started 18 3 TYPO3 Then a window like this pops up amp Typo 3 3 Field Help Mic E afandim Advanced External URL ee eee Hot in menu Backend User Section Mount page SusFalder Recycler Page Type Select the page type This affects whether the page represents a visible webpage ar is used for other purposes DETAILS Standard and Moder will allow any record if you have any problems SEE ALSO Page Shortcut to page Page URL See full description of table Gloss This is called Context Sensitive Help and can be found for almost all elements in TYPO3 where you need some information about it s function Use it It s easy and it s right at your fingertips when you work inside the system Page content
111. phical menus etc and other objects in TypoScript e Inside TYPOS3 is the manual on the core of TYPOS this is for people with extensive developer experience since it contains all the low level descriptions of the concepts in TYPO3s core A very important document if you need to understand the principles deep down Next step Creating custom templates Last but by no means least Your next step Chapter 2 How to build your own custom template design with TYPO3 The major part of what is left to learn from tutorials and other developer resources is how to implement your own template designs As mentioned multiple times the next step in this respect is to continue with the tutorial called Modern Template Building Part 1 This takes you through a case story with a three person web team with a developer designer and content contributer That is where you should go now Thanks for reading so far And welcome to the community Kasper Skarhgj finally at the end page on a late wednesday night RN Getting Started 119 3 TYPO3
112. phil really checks out well he has access to the pages of the new website EE BE Fan club Be Few Belch po aioe eta i dn E Page 1 5 Helo ere E Page 2 s sl iz E Page 3 modules l Reload the tree from server E C Fan club Path Fan club Taeng 2 EJ Pagecontent F Show hidden content elements It s that easy EN Getting Started 107 x TYPO3 Simple news workflow Sometimes you need more than just assigning permissions for users to edit parts of a website you might need to have a certain cycle in place where the job to create content is passed on to a user who does it but cannot publish without a review from a person responsible for the final content Having such an approval cycle is exactly what workflows are for In other cases they are just a useful way to collaborate on content because you can pass it back and forth between people in a work group So what is this in practice On the FC Bigfeet site you will already find a simple workflow in place The workflow is designed to let a user called news receive the task To Do item to create a news item for the website When he is done he sends the To Do task back to the sender who will review the contents and if all is OK he will finalize the process which means the item is automatically moved to the news archive and possibly shown on the front page as well First let s take a look at the user called news Try to login as news password foo
113. plate fort Log in Template 1 Er Newsletter p RB Te sm pages H eampnplate titie zx File iy Mews items draft page Esl Filelict Making changes to the template Let s try to change a few things in the template record NEW SITE based on standard Simply edit it H Templ ate 1 NEWS ITE base d on standard Template title HEW SITE based on standard Website ttle Constants bgcol SDCEZ24 menu bgcal page file bgImg beckback jpg file logo bigfeet_lago gif styles cantent laginform pid 14 styles content imgtext captianSplit 1 cSet tablecellColor 8C9BR2F cSet colorz BO2ZESF cSet colorl 007000 cSet fontFace Verdana stules content lasti Indate lahel bast iindate For standard templates the Constants field is often the place to change values Constants are later inserted in the Setup field and can be inserted many places So one change to a constant may mean many changes different places in the final TypoScript configuration code of the template In our case let s add a red background color in the menu frame see above After saving the template record click Clear all cache in the Admin Functions menu Admin functions i5 Clear cache files in tupo3caonf Clear All qu Always do that if you edit template records directly not needed when you use the Template module though The result is t Getting Started 71 X TYPO3 Welcome t Etin hosti
114. plication Framework angle and others from the Page Tree angle TYPO3 belongs to the latter part However this does not in any way compromise TYPOS3S s status as a Content Management Application Framework Rather the page tree approach enhances the ability to serve exactly this purpose by offering the logical division of the page tree as containers for such applications In other words You can have both a guest book news system user management form and insurance cost calculation in the same system without things getting mixed up because each applications would normally operate within the boundaries of a single page All elements for the application are stored there all transactions are performed by the same plugin on the same page id Makes perfect sense and order So the page tree backbone becomes the strength of the system even when hundreds of web applications in the framework needs an organizational structure Extending TYPO3 by third party web applications Let s now take a look at how we can extend TYPO3 by a web application which is not delivered with the system For that purpose we will connect to the TER TYPO3 Extension Repository from the EM Extension Manager and import install and apply a newsletter subscription system Inserting a newsletter subscription form Generally you will go to typo3 org first and search for the application you need When it has been found you will install it _ Getting Started 63 3 TYPO3 x TYPO3
115. pt was included to get the configuration right for the newsletter subscription see the video previously Finally the static template template BUSINESS standard template is the key element to our websites look All this is editable within the template record Go to the list module and edit it tn Getting Started 76 3 TYPO3 Clear Constants Setup Rootlevel 4 E Include static Selected Ll Items template BUSINESS 2 template TU P cSet default template RE stules sitemap gs template NEWSLETTER EH template HYPEF template GREEN template GLUCK template FIRST template CrcPH template CAMDIDATE template BLISIMESS bull Include static from extensions Selected red _ items Newsletter subscription da newsle i Newsletter subscription da newsle Clearly the Include static field contains the static templates as told you 1 and 2 and the Include static from extensions holds the reference to the static template file from the Newsletter extensions 3 The checkboxes Clear and Rootlevel should normally just be set 4 for main templates Generally static templates are not used so much in professional websites made with TYPO3 The reason is that such websites are normally custom work requiring custom TypoScript code Static templates contain general TypoScript and that is very useful but also limited to some degree However in almost any template e
116. r instance try to enter the code d 10 in the Start time field Z start Z start d iq v 11 4 2003 rai rab Automatically the date is set to the current date plus 10 days If you save the page and hold the mouse over the icon you can also see this setting reflected m x Last week did 13 Start 11 04 03 8 days 51b p E mu And guess what this page is currently not visible and will automatically be visible the 11th of April year 2003 10 days later That s how easy it is to control publishing of information based on Start times The same principles work for the Stop field of course And for page content elements news elements guest book elements you name it Same principle many places easy to understand Rich Text Editing Bold Italics Bullet lists Insert images When you are working with the body text on your pages you can use the same kind of formatting options as you are used to from your word processor If you are using TYPO3 with Microsoft Internet Explorer you have access to a Rich Text Editor RTE for the body text field Rich Text means that you can apply formatting to the text in addition to just writing it Try to edit the body text field of the new Topscorer page Hello world This is mv first test creating content elements Edit in Rich Text Editor l zz n _ hay C Il Ul Ul By a using the buttons B I U and Center Justify you can easily achieve this
117. r now christine Administration Login ch ristine When you log in as christine you will see this when you activate the Page module for editing d Web JT NE mafie DR E228 EA hk week A View Reload the tree from server e ibe S 2 About Pagecontent modules christine Index Yes Results last week week 14 E Arsenal Liverpool 1 0 SouthH Chelsea Cancelled Show hidden content elements Only one page Yes christine is allowed to edit only one single page the This week page That is her responsibility We don t want her to tamper with anything else just that page This is quite cool she only gets to see the page she needs to see So not only does it reflect permission management it also helps make the system more intuitive and user friendly As you can see most of the backend modules are not shown to Christine either The menu to the left contains only the Page and View modules in addition to the Help main module EN Getting Started 96 x TYPO3 which does not require special permissions jonathan Now log in as jonathan Administration Login Jsernamme jonathan Log In manna i Jonathan is the trainer of the Youth section of the club So he is put in charge of the pages in relation to that Just like with Christine he can see only the things he should see e Web pr ME Youth Section E Matches colum Erase crure
118. reated as well of course Very easy Now since we have disabled the Rich Text Editor why not just use the Wizard icon for full screen editing rest I creating content Now write a new bullet list item mark it and press the Insert Link button Then select Email in the link type menu and enter your email address Insert Edit a link E Current Link Hone new link Remove link Page File External URL Email Email address kaspergtyupoa3 com eoe ma The result should be as expected after saving BEES PERS is s the second line EA E 3 Write to Kas f nas fe 5 ae r a link which opens the user s email client and makes it ready to write a new email To ikasper typo3 com Copy Blind Copy Subject Hi Kaspar How are vou I ll send you a donation right away for this great tutorial b N Getting Started 37 gt TYP03 Content element types As you already know there are a number of page content element types available and combining them is the key to creating diverse web pages so not every single page on your site looks the same Bullet list Table Filelinks Multimedia Menus Sitemap Insert records Insert plugin Script Divider HTML As a general rule of thumb the longer down in the list an element is the more advanced or rare it is in use The absolutely most used element is the Text or Text w Image element Wizards Notice that some elements c
119. rnisaddai die undecimo princeps filiarum Aser Phagaihsl filius Gchran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium rmnartarialum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso Agnes anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii Amisaddai die undecimo princeps filiarum Aser Phagaihel filius Gchran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa olea in sacrificium mortariolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso etin hostias pacificorum bowes duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnos anniculas quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp mizaddai die undecimo princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Gchran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclas fialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclas ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium mortaricolum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso Edit in Rich Text Editor Results this week E Arsenal Liverpool 2 0 SouthH Chelsea 3 2 Results last week week 14 E Arsenal Liverpool 1 0 SouthH chelsea Cancelled Make a comparison of the frontend and backend views now Can you see how the elements from the backend are clearly the same as those in the frontend Try to rearr
120. rt zip package 2 Unzip package on your web server In my case have a local Apache web server running The web root directory is in c apache Mtdocs this is where l Il unzip the package this is the same location as the installer package uses Extraction path and options Destination path will be created if does not exist Eapache htdocs 3 Start your webbrowser Go the the URL where you unzipped the files amp Index of Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit wiew Favorites Tools Help Back 7 x Searc Favorites T leg 2 n po Search Address http localhost quickstarty In a brief second you will see this screen gt TYP03 gei cohtent iighi Database Error Ma database selected but quickly you are directed to this screen below where you enter your database username password and localhost 4 Database username password and host In my case no username and password were needed which is of course not very secure R Ss Getting Started 4 xTYPOS TYPOS 3 5 0 Install Tool Site QuickStart Type in your database parameters here Username Password Host localhost 5 Create database Then enter a name for your database In my case t3 quickstart is selected always prefix TYPO3 databases with t3 That is nice if you have many different databases 2 Create new database recommended Enter the desired name of the databas
121. see the latest pictures from the weekend click here to login Do your login here Username Password Login 4 Latest news 31 03 03 20 50 First victory the sweetest amnem locum quem calcaverit vestigium pedis vestri vobis tradam sicut lacutus sum Mosi mere 30 03 03 20 50 New board in the club Most non recedat volumen legis huius de ore tua sed meditaberis in ec diebus ac nactibus ut custodias et facias amnia quae scripta sunt in ea tunc dinges vam tuam et intelleges eam mere 29 03 03 19 53 New website launched Praecepitque Iosue principibus populi dicens transite per medium castrorum et imperate popula ac dicite mere u Lastupdate 14 00 02 04 2003 As you can see the content elements are the same the background color the same the stylesheet used for the news teasers is the same but the template is different This is what templates do They change the overall structure of the website This is how easy it would be to make a re design of a 10 100 or 1000 page website in TYPO3 a single change in a template affects all pages Now in this new template there seems to be a feature we didn t have before That is the border column We can put content here Content in multiple columns Page TSconfig The first thing we have to do is to change the Page TSconfig option that keeps TYPO3 from displaying more than just the Normal content column in the Page module Edit the page header of the ro
122. sert plugin Plugin Guestbook eu At CODE GUESTBOOK POSTFORM Index Yes Show hidden content elements P Guestbook Peg LIUD member message poay Note SC lc baie balab Sender name Bla BL Sender email kasperdtypoas com NM Users Wonder how to edit it Just click the icon of the guest book entry remember beware of consistent concepts A Guestbook blabalbla balabl Edit w BlaBL s kasperditypos com Tide Hew Info copy ut More options Hide Visibility se Delete The same is true for the message board as we use it But not every plugin lists its elements in the Page module so ultimately we should generally use the List module for management of elements if we want a common approach EI Quick Start FO Bigfeet Team pagez Member guest MAD ijs c 3d e Page A View E El Be alates Pagecontent 1 EI lap Home j Header E fia NC EHE routh Section E fiio title Et H a Results M reae X E Links Guestbook 11 Functions PO Title 4 Template EE Contact if t blabalbla B Log in ae ERE Team pages P ub Images Bes Parties Extended view amp Lost and found E Shaw clipboard Club Member message boa z This brings me to the main point here guest book entries are also just database elements in TYPO3 like pages page content element users etc we can edit them hide them delete them and copy paste them aroun
123. sibility settings hiding pages timing appearance Sj o EHE EE V 32 Rich Text Editing Bold Italics Bullet lists Insert UNA SS ecc c 34 Pizza cce siestis 35 Content element types eeeeeeeeesssse 37 Frontend editing eese 41 Password protected pages 43 Create USCPS QrOUDP ccccssccccssseeccseeecseseeeseseessees 44 Create login form eese 47 Create restricted Page cccccccccsseceeeseeeeeeeeeeesseeees 48 Special content elements 50 zioni Me o RR ROT 50 ode DO oet eue utet bee eM Ei 53 UST DOOR SEPT 55 3 TYPO3 vesper t 58 News PIUQIN cccccccceeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeeseeeeseeess 59 Web applications 63 Inserting a newsletter subscription form 63 Backend modules 68 Tracking backend users esuuessssss 68 Changing backend language 68 Iure 70 Making changes to the template 71 The Setup field seeesseeessseess 73 The Object BroWSel cc cccccccseeeeeceeeeeseeeeeeaeeeeees 74 Change template ccccssccccsseeecseseeeceeseesseaees 76 Co
124. t extension Therefore seeking documentation often requires you to first identify which extension you need help for then go to that extension on typo3 org Import In the EM you connect to TER and find the extension with the key da newsletter subscription Display shy extensions Get own membsr selected extensions only EXTENSIONS IN TYPO3 EXTENSION REPOSITORY Click here to connect ta Http ster typos cam id ts_extrep and retrieve the list of Extension Repository My rou have not configured a repository username password yet Please go to Set Connect to online rep azitory The connection takes a few seconds and then this list appears ane rp Newsletter Subscription Module da pewetetter subscription 10 1 pen Dire bber edo grabber 1 0 3 Import this extension to local dir bvpa3conf ext From online repository Dol 1 0 8 _ S Getting Started 64 STYPO3 After some seconds the extension is imported and you will see this message if that happened without problems B EXTEN M COPIED TO SERVER SUCCESS coy apache htdocz quickztart typa3 TyPO3 MOD PATH and BACK PATH was upd ext emconf php ci apache htdacs quick start Type L Messages from repository Request successfull Accezs tupe all In the list of Available extensions you can now find the Newsletter Subscripti
125. t might be good enough for you 553 fileadminz Image Archiver Cok Filename Type Date Size RW IPG i 4 n03 25 R Am girls soccer team jpg IPs O1 04 03 72H LI Uploading images to the archive One way to get images to the archive would be through FTP But of course you can upload directly in the File module Just click the folder icons _ N Getting Started 89 xTYPOS BS file admin Copy Bg ix geri m Upload Files E S Hew 1 zd EJ alos 1 Cut t Delete T This will bring up a form where you can upload files Upload files fileadmin Image Archive 4 files iat b CJ Owerwrite existing files Browse Browse Browse Upload files Cancel Likewise files can be renamed copied deleted etc all by the functions available in the context menus you are familiar with already JPG O1 04 03 72K girls football team jpg Note on image processing in TYPO3 If you are not so lucky you didn t see some of the images in these screen shots on your own server This might be because ImageMagick was not properly detected on your server If you used the Windows Installer Package for installing the QuickStart site it should work But with a custom installation and if you didn t install it yourself you probably didn t see all the great things happen You will have to consult the installation documentation available to get those problems solved Also remember there is a mai
126. tball 03 Muse Task overview Tasks Gi Task center_ 7 Help Ty Quick Note 7 About CREATE NEW TO DO modules C9 About T3 Recent Pages Workflow ial Logout ho Tasks news Inbox 0 To Dos You have been used to see the Page module and some other stuff but the news user has been restricted to see only the Task Center module This is enough for him since he will just have to check his Inbox of Tasks That is empty at this point so he has not been assigned any tasks yet Starting a workflow process Well logout again and return to the backend as the admin user You will now start a new workflow process by assigning a To Do task to the news user Create task So go to the Task Center module click Tasks PE li Inbox a Dos Then create a new workflow There is only one kind right now you will be shown how to configure other workflows later CREATE NEW TO DO Workflow _ N Getting Started 108 3 TYPO3 CREATE NEW TO DO Workflow Mews Target user news Joey Mews Ji Title Hews BH Deadline 1 36 7 4 2003 Description Tomorrow One week later One month later Send as an email to target user immediately Reply address is your email yauriremail cor Create Cancel Now you will have to fill in a form like this Most importantly you have to select a target 1 This can be either a group or a specific user We have selected the user news as we planned Then a ti
127. these secondary options and can t remember behind which icon it is or if you use the field a lot then it might in itself be confusing to find them Therefore you can activate the option Show secondary options in the bottom of all editing forms T EA lex x om x Show secondary options palettes G how field descriptions The result is a big and possibly confusing form But with all options available at once 2 Type Tabla E Language Columns Before After Frame Defaut WE ma ea 3 G9 y IB vil Header Results this week esce Knead rx TT we Normal wy C Normal Backgr color Border ellspacing celer2 wi2 C G Mis iG TI Notice how each row of options corresponds exactly to the content of the palette in the top frame if you clicked the More options icon like before So how do we change the background color of the table In the secondary options for the Layout selector s Getting Started 40 3 TYPO3 Border Cellspacing Cellpaddina 2 n ws mn A Nu Arsenal Liverpaal z SauthH Chelsea 3 2 Denmark Uruguay 6 0 The label Color 2 refers to the color with that name configured in the website template Frontend editing The final note on editing pages is the frontend edit facility I m sorry that there are so many ways to do the same thing In time you will appreciate this since you will find out wh
128. tle 2 and description 4 wouldn t hurt this is simply the job description the target user will see to make sure he knows what to do when he reads this The deadline 3 will set the deadline of the task and later it will help you to keep track of which To Do items have passed their deadlines hopefully none of course Finally you can have the system send an email 5 to the target user when you press the Create button cool if the target user is not exactly a TYPO3 junkie logged in all the time then most likely sending him a mail is a good idea Requires the PHP function mail to work After the creations you will be returned to your overview of To Do elements TOUR TO DO ITEMS Tite Workflow Deadline Done Outgoing To Do items you ve created T Mews Mews 07 04 03 01 36 4 days m Update The Outgoing To Do items are the ones you have created and which are awaiting some action from another person In this case the news user Click the title if you want to see the details a ON Getting Started 109 gt TYP03 TO DO DETAILS w News Created by admin Your Mame 03 04 03 01 37 0 min Deadline 07 04 03 01 36 4 days Description Write the story about the match sunday workflow Hews Workflow description Create new news item Status log Instance 1 There are no entries in the log yet Instance is currently targeted at h news Joey News Add Status As you can see the information
129. to the whole website when pages are shown Thus a single change in the template will affect the overall appearance of the website for all pages This is a great and very important feature of a CMS Just ask people who made an html file based website with 100 pages and wanted to make a redesign Static and dynamic content Consider the FC Bigfeet website Home E3 Guestbook pide Our questbook Enter your name in our guestbook here It s free s Comments 03 03 20 46 37 2 PAULA CROMWELL paula ihotmail cem days paulafreepages com football dub ua Ling sich n AEE US Header Your comment Wane Email Homepage Add yourself u E Last update 21 58 31 03 2003 Dynamic parts On this website the menu 1 the page headers 2 and the Last update section 4 areindirectly dynamic parts of the page This means they change from page to page automatically We cannot directly affect these items per page They are dynamically programmed parts of the template However the content area 8 is a directly dynamic part of the page since this is where the page specific content is inserted We can affect this by adding removing and rearranging page content elements This area is not at all a part of the template excepts its formatting in colors and fonts since we directly control it by the content elements Static parts Apart from the dynamic parts the template consists always
130. u of subpages to these pages News plugin The news plugin used on the website is from the mininews extension So make sure that is installed Extension Manager a Getting Started 59 gt TYP03 Tn HEL QD Mini news mininews Since it already was installed we can now investigate how this plugin has been used The important difference from the guest book is that the mininews plugin is inserted both on the front page teasers and on the news page archive details view The point is that the front page shows the latest three news items ray r fay it cm E AFi Frrr TU Oo Vv na aro a d M V I CLO Yy LE E swe atest z a c a The content elements in the backend On the front page you will find this content element in the bottom of the page if you look at the page with the Page module Latest news Plugin Mini mews CODE The content is X TYPO 3 Getting Started 60 Mini news Listing mode Frontpage teaser l i Quick Start E E FC BRigfeset Notice that first of all the Listing mode a selector box specifically provided for the plugin element is set to Frontpage teaser so the teaser and not the archive is inserted Secondly the Starting point field is used to point to the page where the archive which will list the full story is found On the News page a similar element is inserted Just the Listing mode field is different Mini news Listing mode Shaw arc
131. ubparts and markers etc This is an older approach but revised lately The Frames and References tutorials they are sequels to the GoLive tutorial e More information on non development issues Users Administrators can be found in the popular Handbuch f r Redakteure by Werner Altmann and written in german translations might be available by now This is a User Manual about editing creating content etc e f you are a skilled developer and want to create an extension you can wrestle with this tutorial from Oliver Hofmann Creating a basic extension Karsten Hachmeister has likewise provided a popular guide The documents Backend programming and Templates TypoScript amp beyond are also technical tutorials on integration of your own PHP code with TYPO3 They do not emphasize the Extension Architecture of TYPO3 so much though Getting help For that you need a one stop link the mailing lists References and manuals From the other end of the documentation tree of TYPO3 you will find the references and manuals e TSref the indispensable TypoScript bible lists every property of core TypoScript objects For extensions with plugins you will need to look for property tables in their respective documents not the TSref e TypoScript by Example the TypoScript example collection that will go easy on you compared to TSref This is a much more beginner friendly approach to learning the nuts and bolts of creating powerful gra
132. ven custom designs a static template for rendering the page content elements is included This is done since creating templates and rendering code for the total number of combinations of content element is a very large job and therefore it make a lot of sense to reuse code there Change template Let s try another standard template than the one called BUSINESS In the Include static field remove the BUSINESS template and add the CANDIDATE template instead Include static Selected Items template CAMDIDATE E template TLI i cSet default template RE styles sitemap gs template NEWW SLETTER template HYPER template GREEM template GLUCK template FIRST template CroPH ternplate CANDIDATE template BUSINESS bd Save the result click Clear All Cache and check out the website t Getting Started 77 3 TYPO3 amp http rTecalhost quickskarkJindex phprid 1 FC Bigfeet E OE eee Link to Typo3 com Welcome to FC Bigfeets homepage Et in hastias pacificarum boves duos arietes quinque hircos quinque agnas anniculos quinque haec fuit oblatio Ahiezer filii amp misaddai die undecima princeps filiorum Aser Phagaihel filius Ochran obtulit acetabulum argenteum adpendens centum triginta siclos falam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos ad pondus sanctuarii utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium martarialum aureum adpendens decem siclos plenum incenso Login IF you want to
133. ver he likes and it will harm no one This sysFolder works as the Draft page When the news user sets the status Begin task now the News element attached to the task is automatically created in this folder El 4 Quickstart Gil rc Bigfeet Mews items d EHE FC neigiet News 1 Title Le a This is sundays game E H Results Pu a Links ES Contact ars B Log in Extended view H a Team pages Shaw clipboard m a Users CLIPBOARD is di The News item stays in this folder until the workflow process gets finalized by the sender then it is removed from here and inserted on the News page as the Move to page when finalizing field 6 obviously indicates Target groups and review users Between the Draft page and Final page you will find the fields setting permissions for the workflow By Target groups for workflow you specify which users can receive a task for creating this item In this case only users that are members of the News editor group can receive the tasks The workflow here is a simple Editor gt Author gt Editor workflow In some cases you want a third person involved That would make the flow look like Editor gt Author gt Reviewer gt Editor If that is the case you create a relation to a reviewer user in field 5 Finally the Unhide when finalizing flag is telling the finalizing process whether to un hide the element if possible upon finalizing
134. w 1 MAC E cea ee C 1 Title E Home a Barter ond Hews ce EE PP LIEN Guestbook Such a record contains these fields Getting Started 114 X TYPOS El Workflow 1 Hews 2 Deactivated ite Mews Description Create new news item Table Hews Draft page Mens items draft page s Mews items draft page Page Groups allowed to assign workflow Selected Items GENERAL Hews editar Target groups for warktfiow Selected Mews editar Items GENERAL Mews editar A Review users Backend user Move to page when finalizing Hews Ei Page Unhide when finalizing Apart from a straightforward title and description 1 the record first and foremost defines from which table 2 in TYPO3 elements should be created This means the workflow system can be used to control the creation process of not just pages and page content elements or news items but any item Page Pagecontent Website user Website usergraup Domain Alternative Page Language Internal note Guestbook Newsletter Categories 3 TYPO3 Getting Started 115 Obviously some tables are more interesting in this context than others but the principle applies to it all As you wish The Draft Page The next principle of great importance is the Draft Page 723 The sysFolder News items draft page is created as a safe repository where the news user can create whate
135. w them if you take time to play around Here are a few examples of interface features you can try ji Gsm Text w image Hello world Ya oS wj zu Ihis is my first test creating content elements indy Aag d Edit in Rich Text Editor e This is line 1 This is line 2 This is line 3 Creating a new page content element after the first one can be done by this button 1 You will by default get a Text type element just change the type to whatever you want The button Move record down 2 can be used to change the order between many content elements on the same page column Likewise you can use the Copy Cut and Paste after features from the click menu 8 they even allow you to make copies and move elements to other pages The Hide Unhide button 3 is a quick way to change the Hide flag of the element and the garbage can 4 allows you to delete the element totally actually it can be restored if you do it by accident If you need to edit only the content in the body text area of the content element it s a nice feature to click the Edit in Rich Text Editor button 5 This will bring up a full screen window for editing the text nice if there is a lot of text Clicking the icon of the page content elements will as usual bring up a context sensitive menu for the element Finally you can actually edit not only one page content element at a time but two or more by clicking the Column edit icon 7 Move pag
136. warned this is the low level technical matters that you are not used to yet Another important thing is the Jump to page this field simply tells TYPO3 which page to jump to when the form is submitted 3 Thank you In other words when the user has filled in the form and pressed the Send form button he will be shown this page which contains an ordinary page content element with this greeting TYP O 3 Getting Started 52 ISI Quite simple right Very flexible Troubleshooting On windows servers there is a good chance that the mail function will not work If you send the form and get an error message from PHP then you are most likely without an smtp server or whatever PHP needs to send mails On UNIX this is normally working out of the box Search box The next project is to implement a search box That is even more easy and one has already been created on the page Search J Search Search our website Send to page ieee eee Page Basically its only the content element type set to Search that s all In this case there is also a Send to page field but not used Does the same as the Jump to page field for email forms it tells the element which page should receive the search request which must contain another Search content element in order to show results If not given the current page will This is quite normal with search boxes Con
137. you know which property to search for it s very useful even indispensable TypoScript by Example The better way to go if you want play around on your own is TypoScript by Example This document contains a lot of z Getting Started 75 3 TYPO3 examples arranged as mini tutorials on TypoScript related topics Change template Well in our case the FC Bigfeet template is based on the standard template called BUSINESS This is where all the other configuration seen in the object browser comes from You can see this structure with the Template Analyzer view in the Template module TEMPLATE HIERARCHY ne z Rootevel C Setup C Const PID RL NL Th styles header gfx1 content default i styles sitemap gs El EXT da newsletter subscript dee raininewsz inn L tt board Re Li tt quest KE MEW SITE based an standard y x E i n All the elements in this upside down tree represent pre made TypoScript content for the template So when you look at the Setup or Constant field of the main template record NEW SITE based on standard 1 and think where all the real stuff comes from that is the answer It has been pre included from static templates by the parser If you want to see the content for each element just click its title Static templates The static template styles sitemap gs was included in order to get the nice tree style sitemap on the web site Thestatic template file Ext da newsletter subscri
138. you want to edit and create pages select the Page module Ed Quick Stark WEB gt PAGE MODULE 35 Reload the tree from server If you wish to edit the content of a page please click the page 1 tree to the left ListIPage content M info MS Access Each module has it s own content to display Since you are the administrator you have access to all modules But there are other normal users they have access only to the modules you have selected for them Try to click the various modules in the menu and see how the content frame changes Pagetree The header Web in the menu is called a main module and all the modules listed under it are sub modules All modules under the Web main module will show a dual view in the content frame the page tree left 1 and the module content in relation to a page from the page tree right 2 The page tree can be expanded by clicking the plus minus icons 3 This works exactly like folders on your own computer Actually you can think about the page tree as a directory structure where web pages are organized in a hierarchy with main pages sub pages and sub sub pages etc Ege Quick Start i FC Bigfeet Home WEB gt PAGE MODULE If you wish to edit the content of a page please tree to the left H E Youth Section T Results EJ Reload the tree from server Clicking titles and icons The next important thing to Know about the page tree is that you can cl

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