Attention

TYPO3 v6 has reached its end-of-life April 18th, 2017 and is not maintained by the community anymore. Looking for a stable version? Use the version switch on the top left.

There is no further ELTS support. It is strongly recommended updating your project.

Prerequisites

We assume that the reader has a TYPO3 system up and running and that the basic operations are known. The difference between pages and content elements will not be elaborated on here. We also assume that you know that the content of a page is put together by a combination of various content elements. Just to make sure, we point out the fact that these content elements are stored in the table tt_content. For each content element, the database field "CType" defines which content element type we have. Depending on CType an appropriate mask is loaded.

For a better understanding of TYPO3 and TypoScript, it is helpful to study the database. The extension phpmyadmin enables easy access to the database from inside the TYPO3 backend. In the database, the relationships between the database tables "pages", "tt_content" and the TYPO3 backend can be studied. It should be understood that PID (Page ID) stands for the ID of a page while UID (Unique ID) stands for a unique record.