Slides from our talk about the TYPO3 webservice and the iPhone App for TYPO3 on the t3con09. For details please visit http://www.naw.info/en/skills-and-services/typo3-webservice.html

1. Opening TYPO3 to the Outside
The TYPO3 iPhone App and Other Examples
Thomas Esders, Helmut Hummel
naw.info GmbH

2. Agenda: Opening TYPO3 to the Outside
 Overview
 Sample Application: iPhone App
 Details to the Web Service
 Roundup
 Next Steps

3. Overview
 TYPO3: Easy to use backend via browser
 It´s getting more difficult if you need to create, read,
update or delete data without using a browser
 Example: Live reporting from an event using iPhone

4. Overview

5. Overview

6. Overview
 Solution: Generic Web Service for TYPO3
 Provides an interface for third party applications to
Access and
Modify data in TYPO3

7. Overview

8. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service

9. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service
Applications with customized features / minimal elds for
editors

10. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service
Applications with customized features / minimal elds for
editors
Applications to maintain data off-line to be published later

11. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service
Applications with customized features / minimal elds for
editors
Applications to maintain data off-line to be published later
Applications to maintain several TYPO3 sites centrally

12. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service
Applications with customized features / minimal elds for
editors
Applications to maintain data off-line to be published later
Applications to maintain several TYPO3 sites centrally
Applications that work on your desktop

13. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service
Applications with customized features / minimal elds for
editors
Applications to maintain data off-line to be published later
Applications to maintain several TYPO3 sites centrally
Applications that work on your desktop
Feed and/or control TYPO3 from external applications

14. Overview
 Possible use cases for the Web Service
Applications with customized features / minimal elds for
editors
Applications to maintain data off-line to be published later
Applications to maintain several TYPO3 sites centrally
Applications that work on your desktop
Feed and/or control TYPO3 from external applications
Monitor one or more TYPO3 systems (e. g. monitoring the
version of extensions via Nagios)

15. Overview
 Third party system may be connected through all kinds
of programming languages, like
PHP
Adobe Air
Java
.NET
Objective-C, Cocoa
etc.

16. Overview
 TYPO3 Web Service is an extension - developed by
naw.info
 Web Service accesses TYPO3
 Third party application uses this Web Service
 In our case: iPhone App to work with news („tt_news“)

17. Sample Application: iPhone App
 Three steps to get started
Install TYPO3 extension „typo3_webservice“
Setup backend user with desired rights and con guration
Install iPhone App „TYPO3“, con gure
(a) URL for TYPO3 server and
(b) username and password

18. Sample Application: iPhone App
Live-Demo:
Say „Cheeese“! :)

19. Details to the TYPO3 Web Service
 The Web Service consists of three different areas:
Transport
Authentication
Data output / data manipulation

20. Details to the TYPO3 Web Service

21. Details to the TYPO3 Web Service
 Transport
Communication via http(s)
XML request and response are momentarily based on XMLRPC
standard
XMLRPC libraries are available on various platforms
Other transfer protocols (e. g. SOAP, REST) could also be
implemented

22. Details to the TYPO3 Web Service
 Authentication
Login to webservice by using credentials of TYPO3 backend
user
Securing communication by using https
Other authentication methods could be implemented
(e. g. fe_users)

23. Details to the TYPO3 Web Service
 Data output / data manipulation
Create, read, update, delete data records
Manipulate all data that can be shown in the TYPO3 list module
This means, manipulation of
› content like „text with image“
› records from extensions
› TypoScript templates
› more
All con gurations for a backend user / group are being
considered.

24. Roundup
 Data inside of TYPO3 can now be created, read, updated
and deleted using third party applications.
You can create an interface to edit TYPO3 content that is
embedded into existing working environments.
The interface can be customized to t existing corporate
processes or to t individual needs of an editor.
Furthermore you can automatically retrieve and update TYPO3
data by third party systems or control one or more TYPO3
installation for actuality.

25. Next Steps
 naw.info published the Web Service as a project on
forge.typo3.org to make it available to the community
for active development.
 The extension „typo3_webservice“ will be available in
TER in the near future.
 The iPhone application „TYPO3“ is available in the
AppStore
(and the sources are available on forge.)
 For more details visit www.naw.info/typo3-webservice/

26. Q&A
Questions?

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