TYPO3 CMS

Disclaimer: I haven't played with Typo3 in at least a year. However I'd be surprised if it changed that significantly.

Typo3 is an insanely powerful CMS system. In fact, it's so powerful, it should be put in a category in itself. Beyond managing content it also comes with a very powerful administrative website - think of it as a built-in IDE. You can extend plugins easily or simply define your own. These plugins can include custom data objects (and their relationships), web UI to represent your new objects as well as roles for them. In my few months of evaluation, I never reached the full depth of the product - it's just that huge.

However, the entire system, imho, felt a little old. As powerful as it is, it has accumulated a lot of quirks. You need to right-click a lot - which I found weird (I'm on a Mac). The documentation is not great - and while I love the fact that its internationalization is second to none - I often found that English does not dominate its user base. This means that some posts or discussion boards that might have contained answers I was seeking were written in German, or something else.

Finally I thought the codebase had outgrown the PHP it had sprouted from. I continue to be amazed by what Kasper has accomplished and recommend people to strongly consider Typo3. However in my case I ended up writing a website from scratch using Ruby & Rails.

One of the major achievements of Typo3 as a CMS is the point there is not embedded HTML code in the whole of the Core code.

It has a whole load of extensions. Many with varied level of maturity.

I am looking forward for typo3 5.0 thought 4.x is very very mature and state of art.

I shall not re run the same list of feature which you might check on CMS matrix or http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html
Let me start a buzz word compatibility show.

most robust. The Stable version of Typo3 seldom have security vulnerabilities and has a dedicated security team for testing and patching.

most customizeable. I think typoscript is very very powerful. I have know people writing dynamic pages just with typoscript.

Very secure and easy code to understand unless you have a cryptic extension developed. and each extension is encouraged to have documentation and many do have.

Though there is a certain learning curve for doing implementation and deployment, which I suppose is worth the deal.

Hail to the great Typo3 community.

TYPO3 is definitely a professional Content Management System. The possibilities are very wide.

- a lots of available extensions
- the ability to build easily multilanguage sites
- flexible permissions
- etc...

Learning TYPO3 is work... but that worth the investment in time

I recommend to start with templavoila that offers a flexible and very quick way to match any webdesign into the CMS !

TYPO3 is a very popular content management system. The large community (especially in Skandinavia and the German speaking countries) generates a huge amount of extensions (plug-ins, modules) to add functionality to the (already feature-rich) core system. Therefore you can build almost any type of website based on TYPO3, including community portals, shops, newsletter systems, image galleries or blogs. TYPO3 is more powerful and flexible than many commercial CMS products. On the other hand, its complex structure, feature richness and long history makes it hard to understand for CMS administrators or developers (not for content managers). Currently a team of developers is working on the next generation TYPO3 (called version 5): The aim of this project is to implement TYPO3 based on a modern PHP framework and using modern programming principles.

The huge community of TYPO3 with more than 40.000 users and 1.500 Consulties worldwide has developed nearly 1.500 helpfull extensions (http://typo3.org/extensions/). The active Mailing Lists can be found here: http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo . Since January 2006 Kasper, the TYPO3 founder, experimented with video podcasts. A new episode is released every monday morning (http://typo3.org/podcast/). Maybe the best way to get in touch with TYPO3 is to klick here http://typo3.org/about/new-to-typo3/ and buy one of the accompanying TYPO3 books.

I had tried twice or thrice, but gave up at last. It is too difficult to grasp for newbies. The steep learning curve has stopped so many people from grasping it.

With an upfront opinion of over a year ago I can not resist to put that one down: TYPO3 v4 is a major upgrade and development releases are more frequently now then ever...

Yes, there is some 'old' code in need of rewriting - but this is been done at a very acceptable pace!

According to this[1] research, TYPO3 is the most secure OS CMS around.

With FLOW3 1st series of alpha phases we are looking towards some great and fun times with TYPO3/FLOW3 to come!

[1] http://www.cmsmatch.com/compare/content-management-systems/11%209%201462%2043

A powerfull content managment system, but also very complicated in the first steps with the realitions of the first projects. Im glad that i have started the work TYPO3, its a great content managment software, purpose-built for the writer of content.

Simply the best Open Source CMS.