Variables

Template variables start without the $dollar sign and must be contained within curly braces. They can contain numbers, letters and underscores, much like a PHP variable. You can reference arrays by index numerically or non-numerically.

System Variables:

{SETTING.foo|bar}        <-- display LyftenBloggie setting “foo” or “bar” if “foo” is empty

{PARAM.foo}        <-- display the template’s parameter “foo”

{JTEXT.Foo Bar}        <-- display the JText value to “Foo Bar”

{SYSTEM.foo}        <-- display system variable (base_url, blog_assets, theme_url, view, limitstart)

Example Variables

{foo}        <-- displaying a simple variable (non array/object)

{foo[4]}     <-- display the 5th element of a zero-indexed array

{foo.bar}    <-- display the "bar" key value of an array, similar to PHP $foo['bar']

{foo->bar}   <-- display the object property "bar"

{foo->bar()} <-- display the return value of object method "bar"

{foo.bar[baa]}   <-- display the "baa" key value of an array, similar to PHP $foo['bar'][‘baa’]

Built-in Functions

Since BLOG is embedded inside the template .tpl files, that must be valid XHTML transitional documents. For debugging simple enable Joomla’s debug option.

BLOG Tags Explained

• foreach <blog:foreach>
• if <blog:if>
• else <blog:else>
• value <blog:value>
• JDate <blog:jdate>
• JRoute <blog:jroute>
• commentbox <blog:commentbox>
• comments <blog:comments>