The TYPO3 Guidebook: Understand and Use TYPO3 CMS

© Felicity Brand, Heather McNamee, and Jeffrey A. McGuire 2021

F. Brand et al.The TYPO3 Guidebookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6525-3_9

9. Guide 5: Creating Your First Stand-Alone Extension

Felicity Brand¹  , Heather McNamee² and Jeffrey A. McGuire³

(1)

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

(2)

Northern Ireland, UK

(3)

Olpe, Germany

 

Guide 3 explained the extensibility of TYPO3 using extensions, and in Guide 4, we built custom content types to extend TYPO3’s content element rendering. A lot of TYPO3’s flexibility comes through the extension API, which allows you to add functionality without changing the core.

In this guide, we’ll create an extension to display reading dates for our promotion tour, with the option to show only the next three upcoming events based ...