Tag Reference Introduction
The following are special tags that may be included in AOI
:CMS: theme pages. Simply include the special tags in your
template documents and AOI :CMS: will substitute the appropriate
value.All AOI :CMS: tags, unlike HTML, are
written only once with no closing statement. AOI :CMS: tags use
the percent sign around the special words that AOI :CMS: will
parse/read the HTML template for. Please refer to
Creating Themes for a bare
bones skeleton or copy an existing theme and modify it to your
requirements.
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Region Tags
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Time, Date, Year Tags
Note that you may place AOI :CMS: tags anywhere and as
many times in your AOI :CMS: theme as you'd like, however, it
may be redundant to place certain tags more than once in a
template.
Theme Skeleton Tags - Regions
The following tags form the structure of AOI :CMS: web pages
in regions. If a certain section of your web site is missing,
double check that you typed the appropriate skeleton tag first.
Regions allow AOI :CMS: to seperate all of the various instances
that will appear on your website into their appropriate
location. The location of the region tags are extremely
important and completely affect the appearance, location and
functionality of AOI :CMS: web sites. Region tags should
only be placed once into any theme. The default installation of
AOI :CMS: comes with five different regions: %left%, %center%,
%right%, %header%, %footer%. It is possible to further extend
AOI :CMS: to use more regions other than the ones provided by
the default installation. To add another region, add the
html_region_name, html_region_parse_tag, html_region_status,
html_region_flags and the html_region_description into the MySQL
table $table_prefixhtml_regions. This can be done directly using
phpMyAdmin, mysql client or the AOI :CMS: region manager.
DO NOT FORGET TO PLACE REGION TAGS INTO YOUR THEME OR YOUR
AOI :CMS: WEB SITE WILL NOT WORK AFTER LOADING YOUR THEME!!!
If you forget to place region tags into your theme, don't panic,
simply open the template file for the target theme and type them
into the themename/index.html where you want the region to
appear.
ALPHA ALERT! - During this alpha release, themes
without region tags will miss important HTML information that
AOI :CMS: products and will cause AOI :CMS: to completely lock
the user out of the program if a CORE region tag is
overlooked. AOI :CMS: will not display login boxes or the center
of the web page with other administration/informative data
without the following tags unless redefined.
Required Region Tags
- %left% - Displays the left
side of the dynamic AOI :CMS: content. This tag is required.
AOI :CMS: will cease to function without a %left% tag in the
themename/index.html.
- %center% - Displays the
center of the dynamic AOI :CMS: content. This tag is
required. AOI :CMS: will cease to function without a
%center% tag in themename/index.html.
Optional Region Tags
- %right% - Displays the right side of the dynamic AOI
:CMS: content.
- %header% - Displays the header of the dynamic AOI :CMS:
content.
- %footer% - Displays the footer of the dynamic AOI :CMS:
content.
Time, Date, Year Tags
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%year% - Displays the
current year of the server. Example: 2004
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%week_day% -
Displays the current server day of the week: Sunday -
Saturday.
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%month% - Displays
the current server month.
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%day% - Displays the
numerical day. EG: Day number: 1 - 30
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%hour% - Displays the
current server hour.
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%minute% - Displays
the current server minute.
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%second% - Displays
the current server second.
To form a "normal" server date display in
english, the following format is usually used:
%week_day%, %month% %day%, %year%
Which may display a date like: Friday, September 03, 2004.
Note that I used spaces and added commas to produce the date
result that I wanted. AOI :CMS: does not add any commas or
spaces to dates called using the above tags. |