What This Book Covers

Chapter 1 gives an overview of the TYPO3 API and tells about the most important classes in TYPO3.

Chapter 2 describes files in the TYPO3 extension, what role they play and how to use them.

Chapter 3 focuses on planning. Planning makes extensions better. It makes the project successful.

Chapter 4 walks the reader through the process of extension generation. All options are explained, several issues are pointed out, and useful tips provided.

Chapter 5 focuses on the Frontend plugin theory. It also provides a lot of tips to make extensions effective.

Chapter 6 is dedicated to practical progamming. The reader will see how to make list, search, and single views, use AJAX from the Frontend plugin, and create useful TypoScript for the plugin.

Chapter 7 focuses on the Backend module programming.

Chapter 8 describes how to write documentation for the extension and polish the code before releasing it to TER.