tutorial for beginners on Typo3

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• BEGINNERS GUIDE

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What is TYPO3?

• TYPO3 is one of the more advanced content
  management systems (CMS) for web based
  applications. TYPO3 is a good choice, because
  it's flexible, it has many users thus high
  maintenance and a dedicated community. It is
  however known to be difficult to learn.
  TYPO3Buddy tries to end that, or at least pave a
  way to start developing with TYPO3.

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TYPO3 installation

• Basic requirements and recommendations
• Before you get excited, make sure you have a
  working web development environment on either
  Windows or Linux, with at least Apache 2.x, MySQL
  5.5.x and PHP 5.4.x up and running. You can
  either install Apache, MySQL and PHP separately
  or install an all-in-one WAMP or LAMP
  installation package.
• I also recommend reading the installation
  guide on typo3.org before proceeding to
  the download page of the packages on that same
  website. Below you can find a brief overview of
  the recommended packages for both Linux and
  Windows based web servers.
• When choosing a TYPO3 package, I do not recommend
  to go with the latest major/minor versions of
  TYPO3. After build number 6 (for example x.x.6)
  it's pretty safe to say that most major bugs and
  security issues have been solved though.

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Installing TYPO3 on Linux

• TYPO3 4.5 and TYPO3 6.1
• Download the source and the dummy separately.
  Extract the source to a directory of choice.
  Extract the dummy in a directory of choice, but
  not the same directory as the source. In the
  dummy directory, remove the typo3_src symbolic
  link and replace it with a symbolic link which
  points to the directory which contains the TYPO3
• TYPO3 6.2 and TYPO3 7.x
• For TYPO3 6.2 and TYPO3 7.x, only the source is
  available (consisting of the index.php and typo3
  folder). If you want to use a dedicated source
  for your website, just copy the contents of the
  folder in the source tar.gz/zip file into your
  website's document root.

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• If you want to use a centralized source which
  will be used by several websites, you need to
  store the source in a central place and create
  the following symlinks in the document root of
  your website
• typo3_src -gt folder where the source is in, for
  example /var/www/libraries/typo3/typo3_src-6.2.x/
• typo3 -gt typo3_src/typo3
• index.php -gt typo3_src/index.php
• TYPO3 7.x
• Please note that TYPO3 7 needs PHP 5.5 or higher.

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TYPO3 Basics

• You can access the install tool by clicking on
  "Install" in the System menu. Furthermore, check
  if all folders that need to be writable are
  writable.
• In the TYPO3 backend, click on "List", then on
  the site name (in this case TYPO3Buddy). If the
  site name is still "New TYPO3 site", you forgot
  to change this during the installation. Go back
  to the install tool by clicking on the "Install"
  link in the "Admin Tools" or "System" menu. When
  in the install tool, click "Basic Configuration",
  scroll down and search for "Site name" to change
  it.
• In the TYPO3 backend, you may want to tick the
  "Extended view" box (below the file storage), to
  make sure you'll also see the editing options
  that you will use quite often

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• After this, the following things to do are
• Create basic file folders
• Edit the page properties of the default Home page
• Setup a basic page structure and a storage folder
• Create the main typoscript template
• We'll assume that you've clicked around in
  TYPO3 for some time and know what the basic
  layout of the backend looks like and how it
  basically works.

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