Syntax

Sections

  • The templates

    SPIP generates HTML pages from templates, where each of these templates contains a combination of HTML code, SPIP loops and selection criteria, (...)

Articles

  • Filter syntax

    Filters are applied to tags by using the pipe (“|”) character. Their effect is to call a PHP function, either one which is in the standard PHP (...)

  • The syntax of language strings

    Language-specific strings, known as "idioms" within SPIP, are the codes assigned to the existing translations in the files stored in the lang/ (...)

  • Polyglots (multi tags)

    A in english
    This means that multilingual elements can easily be written within templates without needing to use language codes and strings as (...)

  • Accessing a declared database

    Every additionally declared database can be accessed using SPIP loops as follows: <BOUCLE_externe(name:TABLE)>
    The name parameter (...)

  • The complete syntax of loops

    Loops, like tags, have a syntax which allow them to deliver content in various combinations. Optional parts are displayed only once (not for each (...)

  • Using the language codes

    Any language idiom (externally defined character strings) can be referenced in a SPIP template file using this syntax: <:prefix:code:> (...)

  • The complete syntax of language codes

    The complete syntax is as shown below: <:prefixe:codeparam=value|filtreparams:>
    Parameters
    The language codes can receive parameters which (...)

  • Contents of parent loops

    Sometimes it’s useful to retrieve contents from a loop which is a parent of the current loop, just by using an ordinary SPIP tag. SPIP offers a (...)

  • Forcing joins

    SPIP’s automatic detection capabilities are sometimes limited, and so two syntax variants are offered for forcing table joins or the fields of the (...)

  • Contextual pipelines

    It is often necessary to pass contextual arguments to the pipeline on top of the data returned by the pipeline. This is possible by using a table (...)

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