TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook: Over 50 great recipes for effectively managing multimedia content to create an organized web site in TYPO3

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eBook Feb 2010 228 pages 1st Edition

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eBook Feb 2010 228 pages 1st Edition

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Create impressive web sites by adding image, video, and audio files to a TYPO3-driven web site and customizing their display
Organize you web site by effectively managing your multimedia content in your TYPO3 site
Enhance your CMS by adding different processing capabilities such as parsing metadata and converting files to your site
Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

Description

TYPO3 is one of the world's leading open source content management systems, written in PHP, which can be used to create and customize your web site. Along with text content, you can display high quality images, audio, and video to your site's visitors by using TYPO3. It is essential to manage various types of multimedia files in content management systems for both editors and the users on the frontend of the site.The book gives you a step-by-step process for organizing an effective multimedia system. It also gives solutions to commonly encountered problems, and offers a variety of tools for dealing with multimedia content. The author's experience in large-scale systems enables him to share his effective solutions to these problems.If you choose to work through all the recipes from the beginning, you will start by setting up a basic web site set up, aimed at future expansion and scalability. Next, you will cover the basics of digital asset management—a major topic important in all enterprises. You can organize user groups because next you will be creating accounts for users and assigning permissions. Then you will jump into metadata—text information describing the multimedia objects—and learn how it can be manipulated in TYPO3. You will embed multimedia on your site when you have read the various methods for embedding mentioned in this book. Before you finish the book you will learn about some advanced topics, such as external API integrations and process automation.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone who is looking for effective systems for managing multimedia content. You will find this book interesting if you are running, or starting, web sites rich in multimedia content. This book assumes some prior knowledge about TYPO3, which is available either from official documentation, or other books on this topic.

What you will learn

Create impressive web sites by embedding images and manipulating them within Rich Text Editors by using content elements
Render videos and customize their display with the options in the content media object
Render your audio and video on several pages by administering it just in a single location using a TypoScript object
Create services that will automatically update Digital Asset Management records when an audio file is uploaded to your site
Allow web users to upload files into the system by creating an extension in TYPO3
Extract different formats of metadata and classify files using file metadata
Expand the system by leveraging services, specifically Amazon S3, Flickr, and YouTube and achieve limitless storage using Amazon S3
Enhance your CMS by adding different processing capabilities such as parsing metadata and converting files to your site
Automate workflows and processes in TYPO3

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