TYPO3: Enterprise Content Management: The Official TYPO3 Book, written and endorsed by the core TYPO3 Team (Paperback)

by Daniel Hinderink (Author), Rene Fritz (Author), Werner Altmann (Author)

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Product Description

The Official TYPO3 Book, written and endorsed by the core TYPO3 Team

• Easy-to-use introduction to TYPO3
• Design and build content rich extranets and intranets
• Learn how to manage content and administrate and extend TYPO3

In Detail

Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning. With guidance from TYPO3 experts and core developers your journey into learning and mastering TYPO3 will be a smooth one.

While comprehensive and detailed, this book is an easy-to-use introduction to TYPO3. Whether an editor interested in creating and managing content, an administrator who needs to maintain TYPO3 enterprise intranets and extranets, or a developer who needs to extend TYPO3 and integrate it with other systems, this book is all you will need.

TYPO3

Free, open source, flexible, and scalable, TYPO3 is one of the most powerful PHP content management systems. It is well suited for creating intranets and extranets for the enterprise. While providing an easy-to-use web interface for non-technical authors and editors of content, it�??s messaging and workflow system allow shared authoring and collaboration. This editor�??s interface is matched by an equally flexible and powerful one for administrators, giving them full control of the system.

For editors, the long list of features that TYPO3 offers include WYSIWYG editing; automatic design preservation; automated image processing; Context sensitive menu; wizards for creating tables, bullet lists, mail forms, etc; scheduled publishing; multiple page editing; importing rich text content, such as Word documents, from client application or the web; versioning system; numerous plugs, such as forums, calendars, guestbooks, sitemaps, banner-controls, email-forms, polls, ratings, faqs, glossaries, news, and online shop systems; and Indexed search engine.

For administrators, TYPO3 offers user management; permission control; Pageview statistics; Workflow engine; logging; version control system; staging system; raw database access; caching, and many more features.

The features that TYPO3 offer developers is equally impressive, including a configuration language; powerful templating system; extension manager and wizard; multi-media integration; publishing static, dynamic and cached content; staged migration, and others.

What you will learn from this book?

• Install, configure, customize, administrate, and extend TYPO3
• Create, edit, and manage content
• Set up users, permissions, and workflows to ensure that all of your users can contribute to the site quickly and easily
• Create and manage statistics and logs so that you can see how visitors are using your site, and improve it accordingly
• Use standard and create new templates, giving you the power to create a site that looks the way you want it to
• Give your site unique abilities by writing TYPO3 extensions

Approach

This book takes a detailed practical approach to using, administrating, and developing TYPO3 websites. There are four major sections each consisting of a number chapters. The first section introduces TYPO3 and covers its basic installation and configuration. Section two shows how editors can create and manage content and assets, prepare content for the appropriate media, and integrate content into appropriate applications, such as a website. In section 3 administrators learn how to maintain, monitor, and control TYPO3 systems. Finally, the book shows developers how to extend the out-of-the-box functionalities of TYPO3.

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at both new and experienced users of TYPO3. Users, administrators, and developers of TYPO3 will all benefit from this comprehensive and authoritative guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811418
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811411
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #759,694 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just bad, June 4, 2006

By	Guru Mediation - See all my reviews

A complete waste of $60. The only helpful sections were in the extension programming chapter, which equated to about 12-20 pages of material. I ended up putting the book away and turning back to the online documentation. To make matters worse, the screenshots are now out of date, since Typo3 4.0 uses a different backend skiin than 3.8.

My recommendation, stay away, use the documentation at typo3.org instead.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Messy structure, not helpful at all, May 19, 2006

By	RGM Altenburg (Amsterdam) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I concur with the first two reviewers that the structure of this book leaves much to be desired. It lacks a good overview of the options and dives into extreme details where inappropriate.

An example: I want to replicate the sample site used in the book. The so-called soft links don't work and instead point to a German site. Eventually I found the files in English, but nobody thought about adding a simple read me file how to import the template.

I feel I probably better had stuck with the online documentation...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Typo3: Enterprise Content Management, February 3, 2006

By	J. Frasier - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I work daily with Typo3, managing 3 sites utilizing it, and always working with new extensions etc.etc.

I purchased this book to help answer alot of questions in the daily management of Typo3, and found it very....very....disappointing. It had very little useful information (such as how to direct domains to subfolders, 0 information on the most common extensions, informative instruction in the use of those extensions, etc.) I am not very interested in the history of the programmers, although some information is good, you can always go to the site for more.

In todays development world, books have to interact with a associated website. A great example would be "More on CSS by Eric Myer".

So all in all, don't waste your $60 dollars, just find a friend that knows it and have him do a sit down.