An overview of TYPO3 Open Source Enterprise CMS key features presented at the WordPress Greek Community (Athens 7th WordPress Meetup "THE OTHERS")

1. Athens WordPress 7th Meetup
December 2015
www.antithesis.gr
ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΥ
https://gr.linkedin.com/in/gecon
@gianniseco

2. Who am I?
ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΥ
MSc Advanced Information Systems
• Full Stack Developer
• Open Source advocate
• Antithesis Group, UoA
• 2003 TYPO3 first contact
• 2007+ Professional TYPO3
• 20+ TYPO3  60+ domains
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www.antithesis.gr
Athens - Greece
IT Agency:
Complete Web solutions
Open Source for Businesses
Digital Marketing

3. “Inspiring people
to share”
• Open Source
• Enterprise CMS
• GPL (v2), PHP
• 15+ years (1997, 2000 beta)
• Kasper Skårhøj
• TYPO3 association
• Other products: Neos, Flow
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https://youtu.be/JAO6l9GgMqU

4. • 500.000+ Web sites
• 100.000+ registered users
• 75.000+ developers
• 1.300+ ΕΧΤΕΝSIONS (6500+)
• 9.500+ out of the box features
• Lufthansa, Deutsche Bank, Airbus, Airfrance,
WWF, Unesco, SONY, Greenpeace, American
Express, Airfrance, Vodafone
• Strong in Europe
• Steep learning curve (?)
FACTS!
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Open Source
Enterprise CMS

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WHY?
• Site Tree
• Multidomain (multiple sites)
• Multilingual
• Strong Security
• Framework: Scalable, Extendable, Flexible
• Workspaces & Workflows, Versioning
• Granular Access rights (UNIX like)
• Caching (19 caches, Redis, Memcached)
• FAL (storages: S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, SFTP) - CDN
• SSO (BE & FE Login)
• Mobile: HTML5, Responsive Image Rendering (<picture>, srcset/data),
Mobile Preview
• Thousands of Free Extensions
• Distros (ie. Government pack: WAI-WCAG), “One-click-install” images
Open Source
Enterprise CMS

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LTS (Long Term Support):
• LTS = 3 years security
updates & important bug
fixes
• LTS: every 1,5 year
Current:
• TYPO3 7.6 LTS
(up to Nov-2018)
RELEASES
TYPO3 CMS Release Cycles
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
WordPress Drupal Joomla TYPO3
2014
All
SECURITY
Searching Secunia Advisory and
Vulnerability Database
(secunia.com)

8. BACKEND – SITE TREE

9. One tree, many web sites
One install
web sites++
domains++
MULTIDOMAIN
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HIGHLIGHTS
Editors
Administrators
Integrators
& developers

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EDITORS
1. No need for “menus management”
2. Context Menus
3. Show/hide content
4. Drag and drop
5. Copy-paste everything
6. Paste references
7. Clipboards
8. BE & FE editing
9. Mobile preview
10.FAL
11.Workflows/Content approval (Teamwork)
LIVE DEMO
Highlights:

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MULTILINGUAL
Language
Overlays
(“layers”)
separate
trees
or
Editors:

13. WORKSPACES - WORKFLOW
Editors:

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1. Audit Log / Rollback
2. Access Rights (UNIX like)
• users, groups: per page
• mountpoints (chroot)
• simulate user (su)
3. Customize BE interface (per user & group)
4. Extensions Manager
5. Install Tool
ADMINS
Highlights:

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Integrators & Developers:
Themes? Any HTML page/theme
Fluid Template Engine (MVC)
TemplaVoila! (ext): Map content to html block elements
• Point-n-click
• Flexible Content Elements
Old - “COLUMNS”:
• automaketemplate (ext):
Map content to html block elements (TYPOSCRIPT)
• ###MARKERS### :
Replace markers in html (TYPOSCRIPT)
TEMPLATING

16. FLUID – TEMPLATE ENGINE
Menu
(TYPOSCRIPT)
BE Layout
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Integrators & Developers:
Template (FE)

17. • Configuration, integrate components in the views
• Define information (no function in itself)
• Tree-like hierarchy (multidimensional array)
• Syntax (operators, comments, blocks, conditions, functions, includes)
• Contexts (Templates, User TSconfig, Page TSconfig)
• BE: Tools to visualize tree structure
TYPOSCRIPT TYPO3
TYPOSCRIPT
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Integrators & Developers:

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TYPOSCRIPT – examples I
Integrators & Developers:

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TYPOSCRIPT – examples II
Integrators & Developers:

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TYPOSCRIPT – examples III
Integrators & Developers:

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• News
• RealURL
• Formhandler
• Direct Mail
• Yet Another Gallery
• FE User Registration
• Powermail
POPULAR EXTENSIONS
Integrators & Developers:
• DCE
• Modern FAQ
• Calendar Base
• Multishop
• Google maps
• Blog*
• REST*
 Extensions Manager (TER)

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DYNAMIC CONTENT ELEMENTS (DCE)
Create custom Types, in BE (minimal coding)
Integrators & Developers:

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Extbase/Fluid:
• 2009: @core of TYPO3 4.3.0
• Extbase: a backport of TYPO3 Flow
• OOP / MVC framework
• Domain-Driven Design
• Test-Driven Design
• Fluid: template engine (also used by TYPO3 Flow)
• TYPO3 Flow: Dependency Injections, Signals & Slots, AOP
[ 3500+ extensions using old tslib_piBase ]
EXTENSIONS DEVELOPMENT
Integrators & Developers:

24. Thank you!
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