TYPO3 site package tutorial

Here we define the benefits of the site package: like the concepts of encapsulation, the concepts of dependency management, the clean separation from the userspace (fileadmin/FAL), some important security benefits, deployment and distributability advantages.

In this section we mention the prerequisites that you need before you start with this tutorial.

Here we use t3docs/site-package-data to create a basic site configuration and some pages in the TYPO3 backend with some example content records.

Create a minimal site package that outputs "Hello World".

Assets usually include CSS files, JavaScript and images / icons used for design purposes.

We introduce the templating engine Fluid, that is used to render the html pieces in a logically manner. Then we describe the directory structure that is needed in a site package extension. We also explain the first steps to include the previously static files and html pieces using Fluid.

Here we explain the purpose of backend layouts. Additionally we introduce the DatabaseQueryProcessor which is used to render content from a special "colPos" previously defined in the backend layout. We use Fluid to output content from a specific colPos. By this we get to know the cObject ViewHelper.

Theoretically you could put all TypoScript into one big file and it would work fine. But you have better overview if you split it up in multiple files ordered by purpose. We import all TypoScript files from a folder using wildcards after this step.

We introduce the main menu, explain how we build up a menu processor with TypoScript and how we can output the menu with Fluid. We introduce the so called "Debug ViewHelper".

In this section we configure the site package using the new concept of site sets. The settings are now stored in a yaml file called settings.definitions.yaml.

We explain the needed composer configurations and we connect it with the site sets configurations that we made in the previous chapter.

In this section we go through the process of installing the site package extension with composer.

In this chapter we sum up the steps that we did after we have gone through this tutorial.