Designing for XOOPS

Appendix A. XOOPS Cheatsheets

XOOPS Resources

This appendix features handy tables and examples with XOOPS commands you will frequently use. A more detailed PDF, ideal for portability, is available on the book’s website (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449308964/), as well as at http://insraq.me/book/. Please report any bugs to me at [e-mail].

Table A-1. Header meta tags

Tag	Example output	Purpose
<{$xoops_charset}>	UTF-8	Output the character set
<{$xoops_langcode}>	en	Output content language
<{$xoops_meta_keywords}>	N/A	Output the meta keyword list
<{$xoops_meta_description}>	N/A	Output the meta description
<{$meta_copyright}>	N/A	Output the meta tag copyright
<{$meta_robots}>	index, follow	Output the W3C robot meta tag
<{$meta_rating}>	general	Output the meta tag rating

Table A-2. General XOOPS commands

Tag	Comment
<{$xoops_sitename}>	Site name
<{$xoops_slogan}>	Site slogan
<{$xoops_pagetitle}>	Current page title
<{$xoops_theme}>	Theme folder name
<{$xoops_url}>[a]	Site URL without the “/”
<{$xoops_banner}>	Site banner
<{$xoops_contents}>	Module contents
<{$xoops_footer}>	XOOPS footer
[a] This tag can be replaced by <{xoAppUrl}>, which basically achieves the same result.

Table A-3. User-related XOOPS commands

Tag	Comment
<{$xoops_isadmin}>	If the user is an admin?
<{$xoops_isuser}>	If the visitor is a user?
<{$xoops_userid}>	User ID (integer)
<{$xoops_uname}>	Username

Table A-4. XOOPS resource locators and links

Tag/code	Link
<{xoAppUrl backend.php}>	XOOPS/backend.php
<{xoImgUrl style.css}>	XOOPS/theme/yourtheme/style.css
<{xoImgUrl ...