[TYPO3-english] is TYPO3 for me

Gour gour at atmarama.net
Sun Nov 11 10:40:28 CET 2012


On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:22:34 +0100
Jigal van Hemert <jigal.van.hemert at typo3.org> wrote:

> Yes, TYPO3 needs a lot of configuration in the eyes of some people,
> but in return it gives you a lot of possibilities.

That's good.

> One of the features you have probably seen a lot of criticism about
> is TypoScript. It is the configuration language which you use to put 
> together the parts of the frontend of your website. It's used to 
> configure the functions of extensions, you build things like menus,
> page structure, lookup information from the database, create images
> and a lot more with it.

Looks as powerful concept to use configuration language for such
things - iow. clearly separation of 

> Ask questions, tell what you know, what you've tried and what you
> want to achieve, but ask questions before the frustration builds up.

Sure.

The main concern for me was whether the web hosting which I can afford
at the moment (500MB of RAM for applications and 50 processes) are
enough to run my site(s).

After trying with lighttpd instead of Apache I'm optimistic and 6.0rc1
is promising...

> There are plenty of newsgroups/mailing lists on various subjects and
> usually people are friendly and helpful if you show that you want to
> learn and invest some time in gaining knowledge and experience.

OK.

> There is also t3blog which does a lot of pingback/trackback stuff
> (I'm not really into blogging). Most people want in the end a method
> of publishing articles and letting visitors comment on that. The
> extensions Philipp mentioned can do that easily.

I read about people's painful experiences making t3blog to work, but
maybe those are from that 'specific' group. :-)

> And there is DAM frontend and a few other extensions which allow you
> to have downloads for visitors (and access restrictions to pages or
> content for frontend user groups is standard in the core), or even
> uploads. There is also secured download extensions which provide
> download links that are only working for a limited time, etc.

No need for upload for now nor for the limited download time, but nice
it's available.

> What is edited on that translation server needs to be reviewed and 
> becomes later available for the entire world to be downloaded in the 
> backend.

Good.

> There is a lot of caching available internally which will make the
> usual serving of pages a lot cheaper.

Does it mean there is no need for 3rd party cache like XCache, APC..?

> Yes, there is a surprising amount of things you can do with
> TypoScript without writing anything in PHP. The problem is that there
> are a lot of people who already know PHP and don't want to invest the
> time to learn the possibilities of TypoScript.

Heh...

> If you use an extension "X" which displays lists and details about
> books (just an example) and you need a special list which is not
> available in that extension you can do that with TypoScript. You can
> query the database, format each field you want to use, process it,
> etc. If for example you want to display a date field as a graphical
> calendar icon with the date printed on it, TypoScript lets you create
> such an image.

Huh...quite powerful.

> Correct. TYPO3 should run on Windows and Unix(-like) operating
> systems, a webserver, PHP and a database. MySQL is preferred, but the
> core should run on Oracle, PostgreSQL or MS SQL too. Extensions can
> perform MySQL specific operations and that might be a problem with
> other DBMS.

it would be nice if all extensions would use the common denominator
making it possible to use other DBMS like PostgreSQL.

Thank you for your input.


Sincerely,
Gour

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