NET24 - Case Study - Typo3

by Diane Russell

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Kasper Skårhøj for his own reasons decided to give the Internet community a free gift, his Typo3 Content Management System. He demanded nothing in return. He hoped and believed that the very nature of what he had created would entice and encourage others to contribute freely in a similar way. The Extension Repository is proof of his success.

http://typo3.org/extensions/

If you view this link you will see 1466 extension modules have been added to the original Typo3 system. This list keeps growing as members add their contribution. The system and community contributions act as encouragement and give participants the motivation and a means of contributing.

Stable

Shop - Shop system in multiple languages with photo gallery, articles, order tracking, Paypal payment, bill creation, creditpoint and voucher system, gift certificates, confirmation emails and search facility. Install the Table Library table v0.1.0 and the fh_

Glossery - Glossary with images and links. Custom Tag for Glossary-Popups. FE-User editable.

Beta

Directmail extension with simple to setup and use mailer, and a very extensible recipient configuration.

PDF Rendering - This Extension renders the pagecontent to a PDF file. It supports css and does NOT need an external program to perform the conversion. It can use either fpdf or pdflib.

Mailform - A mailform based on vjforms. With selectable recipients. Features: Selectable Recipients, Validation, Saving message in DB, check for double message, default fillin from fields with feUsers data if available, using dataArray or data-String (can be set wit

Alpha

Day Quiz

Chat - Features: - No page refresh needed due to AJAX - Moderators - Banned users - Welcome message - Maximum usercount - Expert (moderated) Chat - Create viewable chat sessions - Emoticons - Command line tools: help, whois, who, ban, kick, redeem, quit