Lesson 3 — Core Concepts of TYPO3

Prerequisites and goals

Prerequisites

Theoretical prerequisites

This lesson assumes that you already know the following:

  • The knowledge from today's previous lessons.

Practical prerequisites

Before you start this lesson, please have the following things ready:

  • You have completed the tasks in the previous lessons and have access to a TYPO3 backend.

Goals

Theoretical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should know the following:

  • What TYPO3 needs in order to function (database, PHP, server, etc.)
  • How non-page records may be stored within pages in TYPO3.
  • The relationship between sites and pages in TYPO3.
  • The concept of content types in TYPO3.

Practical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should have completed the following:

  • Viewed content elements as records using the List module.
  • Created another type of record (not a content element) on a page.

Learning resources

Teacher's instructions

Student's instructions