Packt Publishing

This book covers everything you should know about TYPO3 Template Engine TemplaVoila. You’ll learn everything from install of the extension to mapping a template from scratch. This method more easy  than the classic marker method or the makeautotemplate extension.

The book also has a whole chapter about different kinds of menus TYPO3 brings with it and shows how to use them with TemplaVoila. Another interesting chapter is about customization of the backend for backend users and groups.

Last but not least they even cover BusyNoggin’s TemplaVoila Framework in a whole chapter. This is quite interesting and you should definitely read it.

In my opinion this book gives a good overview about TemplaVoila template building and even gives some outlook to the Framework. I think this book is good for beginners and intermediate users who would like to learn using from scratch or learn some more advanced techniques. Designers should be familiar with HTML/CSS. Experts may not find anything new.

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Preview TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce book

• Run your business like a pro and earn good profits in your online shop by harnessing all the features of TYPO 3
• Create an eaffaaective search system for productive navigation of your site
• Incorporate smart payment and delivery modules
• Packed with expert guidance on all aspects of building a lucrative online shop

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Preview of Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide

• Extend and customize the Magento e-commerce system using PHP code
• Set up your own data profile to import or export data in Magento
• Build applications that interface with the customer, product, and order data using Magento’s Core API
• Packed with examples for effective Magento Development

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Just from reading the subtitle of the book which is “Over 50 great recipes for effectively managing multimedia content to create an organized website in TYPO3″ I would never have guessed how advanced techniques this book shows. This book is definitely for the experienced TYPO3 user who already built some TYPO websites, has at least basic understanding of TypoScript, knowledge about PHP and basic knowledge about the TYPO3 Core API would also be good.  For some recipes from this book you definitely need more than a shared hosting account because you need to install some special applications.

In my opinion this book has more than kept its promises. You will learn much more than just organizing multimedia content. For example in one chapter you will learn how to work with externals services as Amazon S3 to organize your DAM files, the YouTube API to get videos or flickr to upload images.
The chapter I liked the most is about creating services with TYPO3. You will learn how to extract metadata from OpenOffice documents, how to convert videos to FLV or convert your audio files. Of course you need shell access to install some applications. The book only describes the procedure for Debian systems. If you are not familiar with the Linux shell you might get stuck here and ask Google for further information.
As I’m a big fan of automation I also liked the last chapter about automating processes which also covers geolocation support.

Overall I liked the book and can recommend it to developers who like to have a deeper look into TYPO3 and its possibilities to extend the basic system. I think it will be useful in the future for me to get some inspiration from the recipes or just grab some snippet. For some developers without Linux knowledge or limited access it might be hard to follow some steps.

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You can avoid this cache-pollution by specifying a range of valid values for your linkVars configuration. You can append the values in round brackets to your L-params. It’s also possible to use regular expressions here.

Example:

config {
linkVars = L(1-5), print(1)
}

Otherwise it can happen that TYPO3 puts malformed URLs in your cache and your clients will get mad.
You can find more examples in TSref at typo3.org.