A minimal design

Here, we intend to construct a design that produces an HTML web page with the least effort. This design can serve as a test of system output or as an illustration of the minimum required templating steps.

For this minimal design, in a TYPO3 CMS backend, create a standard page named Minimal design just under (inside) the page tree TYPO3 logo container. On this standard page, create a new TypoScript template record. Give the new TypoScript template a title, and make it a rootlevel template, but do not include any static templates.

The TypoScript-only version

In the TypoScript template Setup field, write the following three lines:

page = PAGE
page.1 = TEXT
page.1.value = Hello, world.

View the resulting web page.

This TypoScript-only design has the fewest instructions needed to produce a web page from TYPO3 CMS. This TypoScript template contains its own content: there are no other files or database records needed. Changing that content requires edit-capable access to the TypoScript template itself. Adding to that content can quickly become complex due to TypoScript syntax rules.

The TYPO3 Fluid version

Empty the Minimal design page TypoScript template Setup field, then write the following three lines in the field:

page = PAGE
page.1 = FLUIDTEMPLATE
page.1.file = fileadmin/sitedesign/Resources/Private/Templates/Minimal.html

Create a file named Minimal.html in a fileadmin/sitedesign/Resources/Private/Templates folder. Notice that the initial letter in the file name is capitalized: some parts of Fluid may not find a file if its name doesn’t start with a capital letter. Write the following single line in the file:

Hello, world.

View the resulting web page.

This TYPO3 Fluid design puts the page content into a file, allowing separate access controls and preparing for editing that doesn’t need attention to TypoScript syntax rules. The TYPO3 CMS renderer still requires a TypoScript template on the Minimal design page, to know what file to process for web page content.

Resulting web page

Here is the resulting web page HTML source for both the TypoScript-only and the Typo3 Fluid minimal designs. Notice how TYPO3 CMS added default markup surrounding the single line of content:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
   <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <!--
         This website is powered by TYPO3 - inspiring people to share!
         TYPO3 is a free open source Content Management Framework initially
         created by Kasper Skaarhoj and licensed under GNU/GPL.
         TYPO3 is copyright 1998-2018 of Kasper Skaarhoj. Extensions are
         copyright of their respective owners.
         Information and contribution at https://typo3.org/
      -->
      <title>Minimal design</title>
      <meta name="generator" content="TYPO3 CMS">
   </head>
   <body>
      Hello, world.
   </body>
</html>