TYPO3 4.2 Release

    In anticipation of the day, ubunts on Habrahabr, I will describe another product, the release of which took place a day earlier.

    So, on April 23, 2008, version 4.2.0 of the TYPO3 content management system was released .

    TYPO3 4.2 logo



    What is it and what does it eat? o_O



    TYPO3 (read like this: taipo three) is a powerful content management system written in the global and reliable language PHP.
    Some facts:
    Despite all its advantages, it is little known in Russia.
    A direct competitor to Bitrix.
    Not designed for community sites and content generated by visitors.
    Extremely popular in Germany and Denmark ( illustration )
    . Unlike, for example, Drupal, is based on classes.
    It supports multiple sites and multiple domains within a single installation.
    Fully supports UTF-8.
    Extremely extensible due to extensions located in the repository .
    It is characterized by the simplicity of creating multilingual sites.
    It has a built-in workspace mechanism - your editor will not be able to spoil the main page until you post its changes.
    And, (for many) the most important thing is quite difficult to learn.

    And detail?


    TYPO3 is based on the concept of wood. The site structure is displayed as a page tree. Any other information (content elements, news, records about administrators and users of the site, templates, plugins and even domains) must be located on one of the pages of the site.
    The display of the site (as users see it) is set using the internal configuration language - TypoScript. Despite the -script in the name, there is nothing “scripted” in it, it is just an analog of ini-files, JSON-a, XML-I or YAML.

    You can get even more detailed information on Wikipedia or in the documentation section (yes, there is a whole book on TYPO3, and not one).

    What's new in 4.2?


    Firstly, now TYPO3 requires a PHP version of at least 5.2, unlike previous versions, which also worked fine on PHP4.

    Improvements in the administrative part: almost all frames have been removed (there is only one iframe left), everything has been redone on divs. In general, the administrative interface has changed a lot for the better. There was a search on the pages (like this :)


    And also there was a built-in TypoScript editor with highlighting, snippets, blackjack and whores.

    And something else:
    The newloginbox extension was renamed to felogin and is now in the system core.
    Improvements in the mechanism of workspaces, for example, now the editor can generate a link to preview his version of the workspace and send it to a person who does not have access to the administrative part.
    Removed the "Page is being generated" message that got it all.

    Of course, new features and fixed bugs are not limited to the above, these are just the most noticeable changes. Those interested can read the official press release and a detailed description of new features. And do not forget to read the Russian FAQ before installation, or maybe visit the forum of the Russian TYPO3 community :)

    Video about the new in 4.2


    Due to habragluks, it wasn’t possible to insert the video tag, therefore I give the link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaO-p0x3SQo

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