[TYPO3-english] Learning Typo3

[bernd wilke]

Am 02.06.15 um 11:20 schrieb David Gregory:
> Hello there
>
> Just discovered Typo3 and everything looks great.  I have installed
> version 6.2 and gone through the basic tutorials and all was going
> good.  However, this is where the documentation seems to end.
> There doesn't appear to be any tutorials or books available only ones
> that are years out of date or the more recent ones are in German.
>
> Any ideas on how to progress with learning Typo3?

depending on your target these books might be still useful.
in TYPO3 there are at least threee different roles you have to differ:
* editor, who is responsible for content (Text)
* integrator, who configures the CMS (CSS, JS, Typoscript)
* programmer, who enhances the CMS (PHP)(CSS, JS, Typoscript)

during the different versions the look of the BE has changed a lot, but 
the principles of work have not changed, so documentation or tutorials 
for editors can still be used (you just have to transfer the screenshots 
to your current system)

Also an integrator can use (nearly) all documentation from versions 
before. Be aware that a lot of enhancements have taken place and going 
back can easily break (don't use tutorial for 6.0 with TYPO3 4.5)
for Integrators 6.0 introduced some changes which outdated some older 
documentation/books.

programmers have the most changes to work with: since 6.0 the core was 
restructured and also namespaces were introduced. And so the old 
codestructure is held by a compatibility-layer, this layer is switched 
off by default with 7.x. And so the old procedural programming 
(pi-based) will work also in future releases a new object based 
structure (extbase) with a lot of magic was introduced with 4.5. extbase 
has changed (and still is changing) but can make the development of 
extensions much easier.

for most usages you can find documentation at [1]

for integrators TypoScript Reference (TSRef) will be an important 
documentation [2] and so it becomes more and more widespread 
fluid-templating [3][4]
even for programmers the leading (german) book regarding extbase is 
available online for free in english [5]


for more question don't hesitate to ask here or get involved in 
https://typo3.slack.com (invention needed: [6])


[1] http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/
[2] http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/TyposcriptReference
[3] http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/ExtbaseGuide/Fluid/Index.html
[4] http://wiki.typo3.org/Fluid
[5] http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/ExtbaseFluidBook/
[6] https://forger.typo3.org/slack

bernd
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