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Today, the TYPO3 community released the third and last beta of the upcoming version 4.4 of TYPO3. The final release, planned for June 22nd 2010, is getting closer.

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TYPO3 4.2 Ecommerce Book

TYPO3 4.2 Ecommerce. Design, build, and profit from a sophisticated feature-rich online store using TYPO3 – the new Packt’s book written by Edgars Karlsons and Inese Liberte. It is a step-by-step instruction-packed tutorial that teaches readers to build a TYPO3 e-commerce website through a practical example.

In detail, what can you learn from TYPO3 4.2 Ecommerce:

• Create a smoothly designed website effortlessly and take your business online with TYPO3
• Upgrade extensions to newer versions and add payment facilities to your site with e-commerce plugins
• Attract customers by preparing attractive product catalogs
• Enrich your customers’ shopping experience by framing a systematic shopping process
• Develop good customer relations by maintaining user profiles and purchase history
• Offer safe payment and product delivery by configuring add-ins
• Improve your site’s ranking using SEO
• Boost sales both by increasing traffic to your website and effective keyword selection
• Add various designs for your TYPO3 CMS using template configuration
• Add, edit, and delete records and add flexibility of information handling by using administrative functions
• Effectively manage and market your site with creative shop content views, discount campaigns, and other activities

Who is the book for?

If you want to create a captivating online shop using TYPO3 and optimize your profit, this book is for you. Some knowledge of TYPO3, PHP, and TypoScript is required.

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Changing Header Banner

In the config.txt file, type the path to the header banner:
# Changing Header Banner
temp.toppic = IMAGE
temp.toppic (
file = fileadmin / data / banners / banner.jpg
file.import.data = level media: -1, “slide”
file.import = uploads / media /
file.import.listNum = 0
file.import.override.field = media
)
As in our case, if no other picture is selected, the file banner.jpg is uploaded and shown at the page.

Now activate the setup.txt file, the marker is already present in the HTML template.
Simply remove the comment character:
# subparts.BANNER <temp.toppic change
subparts.BANNER <temp.toppic

To change the Site type, select Erweitert.

Now we have the banner on Site2. Scroll down a bit and click on the folder icon:

Click banner2.jpg or the image you created yourself.

Save the page and delete the cache.
Click the Show website, the graphic should change now from Site1 to Site2.
Enjoy the website!

Importing t3d file

Create a folder in the folder fileadmin templates:
fileadmin / templates
Unzip TPL_transition.zip into the folder fileadmin / templates / transition /

Click on the globe and choose Importieren aus .t3d

Click Upload tab and then Durchsuchen (Browse) and select the unzipped file transition.t3d

Click Upload

Open the Import tab and check the alle UID Werte erzwingen, and if you want to preview, click Vorschau. Then click Import.

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First, install the Typo3 CMS

Install TYPO3

In the folder templates, сreate a new folder fileadmin.
Unzip the folder TPL_transition.zip to fileadmin/templates/.

Create Folder Templates

Create the following site structure.

Select Template from the menu, or click Create template for a new website.

Edit Constants and Setup

Open the install.txt file in the folder fileadmin/templates/transition/

Copy the text in the #CONSTANTS and paste it the corresponding field. Click Update. Then, copy the #CONFIGURATION text and paste it to the Setup field.

Select Template menu. Click here to edit whole template and configure the corresponding image.

Click Show website. As you see, the top right menu is missing on the page screenshot.

There is a main menu with all templates, in Transition it’s the blue menu on the left, where the typoscriptdatei menu.txt or menu_links.txt or menu_oben.txt is assigned.

The footer menu is always file menu_unten.txt, but it does not come with Transition. Yet Transition has a top menu, which is the file menu_top.txt. Edit them and put into the subfolder Trenner with id 15.

The id must always be checked and adjusted accordingly, unless you import the t3d file first.
temp.menutop = HMENU
temp.menutop (
special = directory
special.value = 15
Save the file. Show Clear the cache in TYPO3 and click on web page.
The top menu appears.

Edit the file config.txt:
temp.copyright = TEXT
temp.copyright (
data = date: U
strftime =% Y
wrap = Copyright © | Mysite.com
)
Enter your name or domain here.

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TYPO3 vs Joomla

Both TYPO3 and Joomla claim to be the best PHP open-source CMS.  If you try to “google” the enquiry “TYPO3 vs Joomla”, you can find that many Joomla-fans find TYPO3 more advanced and complex to set up – yet without detailed comparison. This is what I dedicated this post to: describing the differences between these two CMSs – TYPO3 and Joomla.

Document version control
TYPO3 allows to control absolutely each record and content element in the page tree – you can undo changes, browse history etc.

Joomla completely lacks document version control.

Workflow feature
The workflow is a necessary feature if you have many editors who write articles.
Joomla completely lacks it. It means it won’t be possible to allow chief editor to make decision what will be published and what will be returned for revision.

TYPO3 has a feature called “Task center” where you can define tasks for each user and workflow. Though it certainly needs improvement, the Task Center is a great advantage over Joomla.

Import/Export of the content
If you need to tarnsfer content from one website to another, Export/Import functionality will help you.

TYPO3 has a built-in import/export functionality. It easily exports and imports content using TYPO3′s native .t3d archives, so helps a lot in manipulating data and is very easy to use in most of the cases.

Joomla lacks export functionality. If you need to transfer content from one website to another you would have to dig into MySQL tables directly and manually copy all the files using FTP.

Security and authentication features
Again, TYPO3 has a great advantage over Joomla CMS.

Joomla allows to create only 8  user groups which can not be changed unless you use  an extension. Furthermore, you cannot set security level with high level of granularity for users groups in Joomla.

With TYPO3 you can create unlimited number of front-end and back-end user groups which can be nested. For each group you can define which content, folders/pages/extensions users can access.

Load balancing and replication
Load balancing is something that both Joomla and TYPO3 lack out of the box. Generic replication of file system and MySQL databases can be done on the  absolutely same way both these systems.

TYPO3 include one very powerful option – ability to cache SQL results on distributed cache servers using memcached. This technique is used by many high-traffic web sites (FaceBook, Wikipedia, SourceForge and Slashdot to name the few). In order to use distributed caching in TYPO3 you would have to setup your database connection using the dbal and adodb system extension and of course install memcached on at least one server.
Given all that, you could consider TYPO3 much higher in terms of load-balancing.

Back-end editing capabilities
Anyone who is used to work with TYPO3 BE consider that Joomla BE is very simple and feature poor. In TYPO3 all records and content elements are organized in a very structural way.

I have found the Joomla BE to be not structurally organized and very limited in many situations.

Conclusion
The conclusion is very predictable – Joomla is a very simplified CMS which can  satisfy only needs of very small web-sites and organizations. For other purposes, I would recommend going for TYPO3 – the advantages are enormous. On the first look you might find that you don’t need all the functionalities TYPO3 has, it is just a matter of time when you will change your mind.

Sources: EssentialDots

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TYPO3 Installation Basics
How to Install TYPO3
How to install TYPO3 from Fantastico
How to install TYPO3 in Linux
How to install TYPO3 on Lunarpages hosting

If you prefer video guides, you could watch some here:
TYPO3.org
SiteGround.com

For those who do not like to read online, here is a practical guide on Building Websites with TYPO3 from Packt Publishing.

It is also recommended to use the Dummy package If you want to start out a fresh project, take this package which offers an empty database with only a single admin user configured. Good luck!

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