Prerequisites
It is assumed that you have a running TYPO3 CMS system (if not, please refer to the Installation Guide) and that you have been through the Getting Started Tutorial in order to have a general idea of how the TYPO3 CMS backend operates.
You may also want to have been through the Editors Tutorial in order to be familiar with the concepts of pages and content elements.
A few more elements that you need to know before starting:
- all content elements are stored in a database table called
tt_
content - each content element has a database field called
CType
in which the type of the content element is stored - the
tt_
table also has a field calledcontent pid
which refers to the page the content element is on - in general, each TYPO3 CMS table has a field called
uid
which contains the primary key (unique id for each record) - you will probably find useful to have a database access to check how information is stored as we proceed along this tutorial