Welcome to the official TYPO3 Documentation¶
TYPO3 CMS is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management System powered by PHP.
Getting Started with TYPO3¶
- Follow the quick installation guide to install TYPO3 using Composer.
- The Getting Started Tutorial introduces you to TYPO3’s backend - the interface used for managing content and configuring your TYPO3 installation.
- Add a domain, set up languages and configure URL handling with the site configuration tutorial.
- The editors tutorial explains the creation and management of pages and content.
- The form system extension is a powerful tool that gives backend users the ability to create web forms.
- Fluid is TYPO3’s templating engine. Fluid acts as the glue between your static HTML templates and the content you create in TYPO3’s backend.
- Sitepackages allow you to bundle your Fluid templates and other site assets into a single, reusable extension.
Getting started with extension development:
The configuration overview in TYPO3 Explained gives an overview of the various configuration options available. It contains a description of the main system configuration options.
- Site Handling and Configuration shows you how to setup domains, languages, human-readable URLs and error pages.
- Backend User Management explains how you setup backend users and grant them specific access to your installation of TYPO3.
- TYPO3 Explained contains detailed information about concepts and APIs for core and extension developers.
- The Core changelog lists all relevant changes for each TYPO3 version since 7.
- The references section lists all available reference manuals.
How to create translations
Internationalization | Translation | Multiple Languages
Contributing¶
Contribute to the core
The “Core contribution guide” contains information for creating core patches:
But contributions aren’t just about writing patches. Contributions happen in numerous other ways, including
Contribute to official documentation
You are welcome to click on the “Edit on GitHub” button on any page to propose a change in the official documentation whenever you see something that you think can be improved.
- The blog post Start Improving Docs Now to Grow TYPO3 gives a good introduction to documentation contribution.
- Contribute to the TYPO3 documentation explains the workflow for contributing.
- The documentation is edited in text files using reStructuredText syntax. Use the reST & Sphinx cheat sheet to lookup most commonly used directives.
- General conventions can be found in Documentation content style guide
- How You Can Help lists some general tasks to get you started.