Reviews for TYP03; Enterprise Content Management

1. Invaluable for Typo3 developers

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2007

   Having used Typo3 for 4 years now, I can tell you that it is a superb piece of software IF you can understand how it works. The online guides are a good place to start BUT, as the previous reviewer said, the problem is that they are very disjointed.
   
   This book pulls everything you need together in a logical sequence that is usable. It's getting started that's the toughest part with Typo3, and for that this book is excellent. It has become an invaluable reference guide for me.

2. A great resource and time saver

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, January 12rd, 2006

   Finally, an English book for this powerful CMS. For anyone struggling with the complexity of this system (even if there are more than 5000 pages of free documentation on the website), this book solves the continuity problem. It goes from installation to editors' duties, up to administration and extension development.

   What I really appreciate in this book is the logical path it uses to give you the "big picture" of this complex, yet effective system. At the same time, it's also a problem with this book. They want to appeal to everybody (editors' section, development section) and in 575 pages, there's not enough pages to see it all. Sometimes while reading I was thinking "hey they should have talk about this and that"but at the same time realized that a 2000 pages book would had been too costly... Maybe a full 500 pages book on TYPO3 development would do the trick in the future.

   Talking about price, you should be aware that part of the profit goes back to the TYPO3 Association and will help the core development of
   TYPO3.

   What is really great about this book is the Typoscript chapter. It really helps anyone having to do templating and navigation for their TYPO3 websites. I should also mention the Admin chapter as a time saver. You will get tips and tricks on how to setup Back-End Users, Groups and others configurations. It should be noted that it was revised for version 3.8 (May 2005) and so is very up-to-date.

   There are about 150 pages devoted to extension development but as I stated, a full book would be welcome just to cover this subject.

   Overall I highly recommend this book. When you finish it, you should have learned a great deal about this powerful CMS and feel comfortable enough to dig even more!