What is TYPO3?

TYPO3 is an enterprise-class Framework and offers the best of both worlds: innovative content management with a full set of standard modules and a simplistic high-performance architecture featuring virtually every kind of custom extension.

For publishers, TYPO3 is an user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to create and manage web sites, using advanced features in just a few clicks.

With TYPO3, everyone can join in online customer relations. Fast integration of multimedia and dynamic server-side photo edition and creation are among the countless standard options inside this complex package for web-based administration. Also included is an integrated communication system for shared publishing.

For system administrators and publishers, TYPO3 features an extremely detailed user authorization system for implementing professional content managing and editing workflows. TYPO3 is a server-side platform that can be used with every browser there is.

TYPO3 is using databases and reformats easily to bring web pages and embedded formats in a corporate content providing environment.

TYPO3 is free and open source content management system as well as an MVC Web Application Development framework written in PHP. It is released under the GNU License.

Features

- Set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules

- Large repository of extensions. More than 4500

- Has a web frontend, which presents a TYPO3 based website to its users

- TYPO3 can run on Apache or IIS on top of Linux, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. It uses PHP 5.2 or newer

- Can be run on any web server, with a modern CPU and 256 MB RAM

Design

System uses a language called TypoScript. TypoScript can be used to gather data from the database or process it and create . TypoScript includes one of available theme engines. These theme engines create output based on HTML presets.

TYPO3 understands different types of data. Standard types include: text, photos, text with photos, html, table, video, lists, etc. These can be extended through plugins. The most common type is "page". TYPO3 consists of two parts: Frontend and Backend. The Frontend is the media responsible part, also controls web content. Backend is managing and administration.

TYPO3 is made to be pluggable and flexible. For example, TYPO3 includes many user authentication methods (such as RSA shared keys or OpenID). They are implemented.

•    TYPO3 is a cutting-edge complex framework with unlimited possibilities.

TemplaVoila

TemplaVoila is one of the theme engine extensions for TYPO3. A graphical tool for creating templates is integrated, an alternative page module, the ability to create complex content elements and an API for developers.

TemplaVoila includes more flexibility for managing web pages than TYPO3's standard templating, while making it possible to force a strict corporate design and allowing editors to work with content more intuitively.