The TYPO3 caching framework is a great way to speed up your site if your extension needs to perform tasks that can be cached. In the Aimeos TYPO3 extension, we use it to store content like list or detail views of the web shop to get lightning fast response times. Since version 6.2, a cache can belong to one or more cache groups in the caching framework and it enables editors to control more precisely which caches should be flushed. Unfortunately, this features isn’t well documented yet in the TYPO3 documentation but here’s the remedy!
The cool thing about the TYPO3 bootstrap_package extension is that you can set up a new site within minutes because everything is pre-configured. This also includes the RealURL setup so you already see the page titles in your URLs and the language parameter value is mapped too.
This article is for Neos 2.0 and thing might have changed in the meantime. At least the software packages are required in newer versions.
Neos is well known for its well designed interface for editors who quickly fall in love with the system. On the other hand, it’s also infamous for being hard to set up by starters due to its high demands towards the hosting environment. Someone also compared it to walking on a slack line: It’s easy to stumble and to get frustrated.
This article focuses on creating a hosting environment suited for Neos so you will be able to finish the Neos setup and get a running instance afterwards. I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 as reference but it also applies to other Linux distributions like Fedora, only the path names might differ a bit (/etc/apache2/ vs. /etc/httpd/).
After months of development we’ve felt ready to release the first stable version of our Open Source web shop bundle for the Symfony PHP framework.
The shop bundle enables software developers to integrate e-commerce functionality into their applications immediately. Pre-configured pages and a complete demo data set reduces the time to the first working shop down to a few minutes, increasing productivity. And the best thing: It integrates well with existing bundles like FOSUserBundle for user registration and management!
Our attention has been laid on creating a high-performance shop bundle that scales up to 100 000+ products on a standard Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack. With additional software such as ElasticSearch, several million products per installation are possible without performance loss and in optimized server setups, we’ve seen response times down to 40ms.
As usability is one of the key success factors of online shops today, we’ve continuously tested and improved the user experience. The Aimeos “elegance” theme is the result which we are very proud of. If you are a developers who would like to create new themes, you are also able to completely rework the front-end by adding, removing or reordering all aspects only via configuration settings.
We hope you enjoy the bundle as much as we do! The new version and additional information is available at the Symfony web shop bundle page
Simplicity is key! I think nobody would oppose to this little sentence but in the TYPO3 ecosystem, many things are not very simple – at least not for new users. Even the most popular extensions need a deep knowledge of how to configure them before they can be used. And good documentation is most of time a rare thing!
So why not build an extension that works out of the box and configures itself as far as possible to give users an instant feeling of success? The constants.txt or setup.txt TypoScript files of the extensions can contain almost all default settings. But things get difficult if the required configuration depends on dynamic things like page IDs. Then, all hope of simplicity is lost and users have to add the necessary settings themselves again.
Extensions are a great way to add features to the TYPO3 CMS and there are extension for virtually everything! Simply download them from the TYPO3 extension repository and install them via the Extension Manager in the TYPO3 back-end. So far so good …
Often, the remaining tasks of configuring the extension, adding new pages with the plug-ins from the extension or importing required data into the database becomes much more cumbersome. Why can’t life be not as easy as in other CMS? Just click and everything works?
