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
Tag syntax, the definitive version
Just like loops (boucles), tags often have optional components, and can sometimes also accept parameter arguments. Asterisks can be applied to (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The syntax of loops
A loop typically declares both a database table from which to extract information as well as the criteria to be used for selecting a subset of (...)
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 (...)
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 complete syntax of language codes
The complete syntax is as shown below: <:prefixe:codeparam=value|filtreparams:> Parameters The language codes can receive parameters which (...)
Criteria syntax
The loops criteria for are written between curly brackets just after the tables names. Any SQL field in a table can become a selection (...)
Accessing a declared database
Every additionally declared database can be accessed using SPIP loops as follows: <BOUCLE_externe(name:TABLE)> The name parameter (...)