Templating Tags
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Main template tags
<!--MAIN['CONTENT']-->
This is the tag to display the main content on each page.
<!--REQUIRED['NAVBAR']-->
This is the navbar.
<!--REQUIRED['ADVERT']-->
This is the tag for your advertisement. All templates require this
tag, even if you are a paid/beta account member. It will simply be
ignored if you are of a paid status.
<!--SITE['USERICON']-->
Shows your default usericon
<!--SITE['USERNAME']-->
This displays your username. It is always suggested to use this
instead of hardcoding your username because if you change your
username, this will automatically change as well!
<!--SITE['TITLE']-->
Your site title, as set in your profile
<!--SITE['SITETITLE']-->
The same as previous, except that on entry pages it includes the entry title. E.g, if your Tabulas title is "Anon's Tabulas" and the entry being viewed is titled "Cool!", then this template tag will display "Cool! - Anon's Tabulas". On all other pages it is the same as <!--SITE['TITLE']-->.
<!--SITE['DESCRIPTION']-->
Your site description, as set in your profile
<!--SITE['COMMUNITIES']--> (*)
Displays the list of communities you are currently a part of.
<!--SITE['PAGES']--> (*)
Displays all your content pages
<!--SITE['LINKS']--> (*)
Display your links
<!--SITE['CATEGORIES']--> (*)
Displays your categories
<!--SITE['TAGBOARD']-->
Displays your tagboard
<!--SITE['METATAGS']-->
Displays important HTML header information
<!--SITE['URL']-->
Displays your site URL. It is suggested you use this in your main navigation links as it will dynamically adjust itself when using a domain name other than tabulas.com
Entry Templating Tags
Tags for entry templating are below. Asterisks indicate that this tag has the optional power.
<!--ENTRY['DATE']-->
Date of entry
<!--ENTRY['ONEDATE']--> (*)
Date of entry; will only display once per day
<!--ENTRY['TITLE']-->
Title
<!--ENTRY['PERMALINK']-->
The URL to your entry
<!--ENTRY['DATA']-->
Entry data
<!--ENTRY['TIME']-->
Entry time
<!--ENTRY['CATEGORY']--> (*)
Category
<!--ENTRY['USERICON']--> (*)
Usericon
<!--ENTRY['COMMENTS']-->
Comment link
<!--ENTRY['USER']-->
Username of entry
<!--ENTRY['USERNAME']-->
Username of entry as a link to their Tabulas (e.g. http://www.tabulas.com/~tabulas/)
<!--ENTRY['ATTACH']-->
Attached images (being deprecated)
<!--ENTRY['EXTRA']--> (*)
This displays a list of status information about the post (i.e.
whether it's a sticky and what privacy setting it has attached to it).
The list will appear as a comma list (for example: friends-only, sticky
or private
<!--ENTRY['MUSIC']--> (*)
Music of the moment
<!--ENTRY['BOOK']--> (*)
Book of the moment
<!--ENTRY['MOOD']--> (*)
Mood of the moment
<!--ENTRY['WATCH']--> (*)
What you're currently watching (TV or movies)
<!--ENTRY['METADATA']--> (*)
Does BOOK, MOOD, or MUSIC exist?
<!--ENTRY['TOOLBAR']-->
Displays links to edit or delete the entry. You can only see these when you're logged in and viewing your own entries.
(*) Optional Tags
Tabulas
2.0 allows you to set optional data. For example, you may not want to
always display your list of communities. If you don't display your
communities, you may have some HTML you may not want to display with it
(for example, a community header image). Tabulas now has "optional"
tags which only display the data between them if that data exists.
Optional
tags are done like this: <!--SITE['TAG_NAME']::START-->
<!--SITE['TAG_NAME']--><!--SITE['TAG_NAME']::END-->
A
practical example is in the ONEDATE tag for entry templating. Let's say
you do something like: <h1><!--ONEDATE--></h1>. Under
the old templating engine, if the value for ONEDATE didn't exist, it
would simply output <h1></h1> which is very annoying! So
instead of you do someting like: <!--ENTRY['ONEDATE']::START-->
<!--ENTRY['ONEDATE']--><!--ENTRY['ONEDATE']::END-->, if the
value for ONEDATE doesn't exist, then everyting between the
<!--ENTRY['ONEDATE']::START--> and
<!--ENTRY['ONEDATE']::END--> will be omitted by the templating
engine.
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