Core Documentation

Inside TYPO3

Copyright © by Kasper Skrhj <kasper@no spam pleasetypo3.com>
Published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Table Of Contents

• 1. Inside TYPO3
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. About this document
    • Intended audience
    • Up-to-date information?
  • 2.2. A basic installation
    • The Backend Adminstration Directory, “typo3/”
    • typo3conf/localconf.php
    • The Install Tool
    • Basic Core Installation Summary
• 3. Core Architecture
  • 3.1. Backend
    • Backend interface
    • Initialization (init.php)
    • Global variables, Constants and Classes
    • The template class (template.php)
    • Other reserved global variables
  • 3.2. Extensions
    • What are extensions
    • Managing extensions
  • 3.3. Configuration
    • localconf.php and $TYPO3_CONF_VARS
    • config_default.php
    • Install Tool
    • Browsing $TYPO3_CONF_VARS values
    • User and Page TSconfig
  • 3.4. Access Control
    • Users and groups
    • Roles
    • LDAP
    • Access Control options
    • Other options
    • More about File Mounts
    • Setting up a new user
    • Overview of users
  • 3.5. Backend Modules
    • Backend main- and sub-modules
    • "Function Menu" module
    • Stand-alone backend scripts
    • Backend Module API
    • conf.php
    • The Module script
    • Function Menu modules
    • Creating new backend scripts
    • Initialize TYPO3 backend in a PHP shell script (CLI mode)
  • 3.6. Database
    • Introduction
    • Relational Database Structure
    • Upgrade table/field definitions
  • 3.7. Versioning and Workspaces
    • Versioning in TYPO3
    • Workspaces
    • Using versioning and workspaces
  • 3.8. Localization
    • Strategy
    • Character sets
    • How translations are handled by the system
    • Helping translating TYPO3?
    • Introduce a new language in TYPO3
    • Translation teamwork?
    • Distribution of and contribution to language packs
    • "locallang-XML" (llXML) files
    • "locallang.php" files (deprecated)
    • "language-splitted" syntax (deprecated)
    • How to acquire labels from the $LANG object
    • Overriding LOCAL_LANG values
  • 3.9. Context Sensitive Help (CSH)
    • Basic facts about Context Sensitive Help
    • The $TCA_DESCR array
    • The locallang files for CSH
    • The CSH pop-up window
    • Implementing CSH for your own tables/fields
    • Implementing CSH in your modules
  • 3.10. Security in TYPO3
    • Default security includes:
    • Additional security measures you can take:
    • Recommendations
    • PHP settings
    • Notice!
    • XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
    • Security reports
  • 3.11. Files and Directories
    • TYPO3 files and folders
    • Paths in TYPO3 (UNIX vs. Windows):
    • Filesystem permissions
    • Write protection of source code
    • Changing the default “typo3/” directory
  • 3.12. Core modules
    • List module
    • Info module
    • Access module
    • Functions module
    • Filelist module
  • 3.13. General interface features
    • Context Sensitive Menus (CSM / "Clickmenu")
    • Clipboard
    • Creating skins for TYPO3
• 4. Appendix
  • 4.1. ImageMagick
    • Introduction
    • Filesystem Locations (rpms):
    • What is wrong with ImageMagick ver. 5+?

This document is related to version 4.0.0 of the extension doc_core_inside.