Web-Empowered Church Developer: Understand the Documentation Breakdown For TYPO3

Understand the Documentation Breakdown For TYPO3

Typo3 has extensive documentation and this attempts to break it down to easily scan what is there and find something quickly. Some of the documentation is old, some of it is more recent. Some of the older stuff has value though and this is a breakdown of all the main documentation and what it contains.

* Inside TYPO3 (doc_core_inside)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_inside/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_inside/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Helps understand working of Typo3 including:
      Core Architecture of Typo3
         3.1 Backend
         3.2 Extensions
         3.3 Configuration
         3.4 Access Control
         3.5 Backend Modules
         3.6 Database (minor)
         3.7 Localization
         3.8 Context Sensitive Help
         3.9 Security
         3.10 Files and Directories (what main directories are)
         3.11 Core Modules (List/Info/Access/Functions/Filelist)
         3.12 General Interface Features (context sensitrive menus/clipboard/creating skins)
      ImageMagick details

* TYPO3 Coding Guidelines (doc_core_cgl)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_cgl/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_cgl/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Visual formatting and naming
      Variables and Constants
      Database connectivity (using wrapper class)
      Security in your scripts
      Coding

* TYPO3 Core APIs (doc_core_api)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_api/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_api/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Typo3 Extension API
          Extension Architecture (files & locations, naming conventions, keys, ext_tables.php, ext_localconf.php, ext_emconf.php)
          Extension Manager
          Basic framework for new extension
      Typo3 API Overview
          High-Priority & Useful Functions
           Typo3 Core Engine (TCE)
            Hooks
            Variables & Constants available to you in
            BackEnd User object (BE_USER)
            PHP Class Extension
            Examples (rendering page trees, accessing clipboard, adding context sensitive help, linking to edit records, etc)
      Table Configuration Array (TCA)
            Reference to all fields
      RTE (Rich Text Editor) API
           Introduction
           Transformations
           History
      Skinning API
      Data Formats
           T3DataStructure (XML) used in Flexforms/Templavoila

* TypoScript by example (doc_core_tsbyex)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_tsbyex/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_tsbyex/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      TypoScript template
      Standard template
      Tutorial for a new website
      Concepts
          id & type
          wraps
          arrays
      Code notation convetions
      stdWrap
      Content Objects (cObject)
      imgResource and GIFBuilder
      Navigation
          HMENU
          TMENU
           IMGMENU
           GMENU
      PHP Include Scripts
      Content Rendering
           CONTENT
           RECORD
           styles.content

* TypoScript Templates (doc_core_tstemplates)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_tstemplates/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_tstemplates/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      TypoScript templates...
          Syntax
          Comments
          Template system
          Technical Implementation in PHP
      Admin Panel
           Controlling it

REFERENCE

Get documentation at: typo3.org/documentation/document-library/references/

* Core TSConfig (doc_core_tsconfig)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/references/doc_core_tsconfig/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/references/doc_core_tsconfig/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
       User TSConfig
      TSConfig field
      Setting default User TSConfig
      AdmPanel
       Page TSConfig
      MOD
      TCEMain
      TCEForm
      TSFE

* Core TSref (doc_core_tsref)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/references/doc_core_tsref/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/references/doc_core_tsref/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
         Data Types reference
      Objects & Properties
      Conditions (browser, version, useragent, language, IP, month,dayofmonth,globalVars, userFunc, etc)
      Functions
          stdWrap
          imgResource
          typolink
          parseFunc
          makelinks
          tags
      Constants
      Setup
            TLO
            CONFIG
            CONSTANTS
            PAGE
            FRAME
      Content Objects (cObject)
            HTML
            TEXT
            COBJ_ARRAY
            FILE
            IMAGE
            CONTENT
            HMENU
            CTABLE
            USER, USER_INT
            PHP_SCRIPT
            TEMPLATE
      GIFBUILDER
      MENU Objects
      media/scripts plugins
           fe_adminLib.inc
      Standard Templates
      PHP Include Scripts
      CaseStory
      index.php
      Tips

TUTORIALS

Get documentation at: typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/

* Backend Programming (doc_tut_backend)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_backend/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_backend/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Shows you how to add a custom database table, add a module, and work with future versions of Typo3
      It uses Photo Marathon

* Basic Extension Tutorial (player_profile_basic)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/player_profile_basic/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/player_profile_basic/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Adds an image and text fields on the front end.

* doc_tut_quickstart (doc_tut_quickstart)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_quickstart/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_quickstart/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Basic principles of TYPO3 as you learn building a Typo3 site.

* Frontend Programming (doc_tut_frontend)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_frontend/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_frontend/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      How to produce custom designed output with Typo3 using PHP
           mysterious ways of FrontEnd
           Using TSFE object
           Using TypoScript
           Professional's choice
           Including custom PHP code
           Case stories: PhotoMarathon and Humidor Cam

* Futuristic Template Building (doc_tut_ftb1)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_ftb1/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_ftb1/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      Integration of template with TemplaVoila
      Creating additional page templates
      Flexible Content Elements

* Modern Template Building, Part 1 (doc_tut_templselect)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_templselect/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_templselect/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
      A from-scratch tutorial how to build a CMS-powered website based on a HTML template.
            Basics (PAGE and cObjects)
            Integratoin of HTML template
                TEMPLATE cObject
                template auto-parser extension
                inserting page content
                XHTML compliancy

* Modern Template Building, Part 23 (doc_tut_templselect2)

   -- Online:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_templselect2/current/view/
   -- File:    typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_templselect2/current/ter_doc_sxw/
   -- Description:
         Part 2: Creating a Template Selector

Investigating the source material
Creating an extension
Modifying item arrays (backend)
Reading the selected template (frontend)
A TypoScript session for Mr. Benoit
The content area template
Real content in the columns
Setting the default template with a constant
Configuration of the template paths

Part 3: Extending Built-In Access Scheme

The theory of "enablefields"
Extending the t3lib_pageSelect class
Changing the "fe_group" field
Adding our custom "enablecolumn" type
Access control on user level?
Extending access control for pages

EXTENSIONS

Get documentation for an extension at: typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/. If an extension is not listed here, then it likely does not have a manual.

While there are thousands of extensions, we will just highlight a few that you may want to look at: