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 complete syntax of language codes
The complete syntax is as shown below: spip <:prefixe:codeparam=value|filtreparams:>
Parameters
The language codes can receive (...)Criteria syntax
The loops criteria for are written between curly brackets just after the tables names. spip
Any SQL field in a table can become a selection (...)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 (...)
Accessing a declared database
Every additionally declared database can be accessed using SPIP loops as follows: <BOUCLE_externe(name:TABLE)>
The name parameter (...)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/ (...)
Using the language codes
Any language idiom (externally defined character strings) can be referenced in a SPIP template file using this syntax: spip (...)
Polyglots (multi tags)
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This means that multilingual elements can easily be written within templates without needing to use language codes and (...)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 (...)
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 (...)