============ Introduction ============ .. sectionauthor:: Robert Lemke What's TYPO3 Flow ================= TYPO3 Flow is a PHP-based application framework. It is especially well-suited for enterprise-grade applications and explicitly supports Domain-Driven Design, a powerful software design philosophy. Convention over configuration, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration and an easy-to-read source code are other important principles we follow for the development of TYPO3 Flow. Needless to say, TYPO3 Flow provides you with a full-stack MVC framework for building state-of-the-art web applications. More exciting though are the first class Dependency Injection support and the Aspect-Oriented Programming capabilities which can be used without a single line of configuration. What's in this tutorial? ======================== This tutorial explains all the steps to get you started with your very own first TYPO3 Flow project. Please bring your own computer, a reasonable knowledge of PHP and HTML and at least some initial experience with object-oriented programming. In return you'll surely get some new insights into modern programming paradigms and how to produce clean code in no time. .. note:: If you're stuck at some point or stumble over some weirdnesses during the tutorial, please let us know! We appreciate any feedback in our mailing lists, as a ticket in our issue tracker or via private email. [#]_ .. tip:: This tutorial goes best with a Caffè Latte or, if it's afternoon or late night already, with a few shots of Espresso ... ------ .. [#] I'll read any feedback you send me to robert@typo3.org but I don't always manage to answer quickly.