Advanced Commands

Advanced Commands

It is not necessary to understand the advanced commands in order to create basic documents using the DI.

.CGIVARS [ConvertXY]	Convert any CGI variables to DI variables
.COMMENT	Starts a comment block
.ENDCOMMENT	Ends a comment block
.COUNTER [Quiet] [Reset] [Since] [Long]	Display a count of the hits to the page
.DBARRAY [Local] name=filename	Read a database into an array
.DBDUMP DBVar= Fmt= [StartRow=] [EndRow=]	Echo rows of a database variable
.DBHASH [Invert] [Local] name=filename	Read a database into an associative array
.DEBUG Level=	Echo the expanded versions of commands
.ECHO [value]	Echo a value
.EMAIL [NoMailto] [WebMail] Email= RealName= [URL=]	Create an email link
.EXIT	Stop all further processing
.FIXTABLE [Test] [BR] [DefaultRow=] [DefaultCol=]	Fix a table's cells for display with text-only browsers
.FOR Name= [Declaration=]	Repeat a series of commands
.FOREACH [Value=]	Repeat a series of commands
.ENDFOR	Used with .FOR or .FOREACH
.FUNCTION Name= [Declaration=]	Group a series of commands together
.RETURN [Value=]	Exit function
.ENDFUNC	Used with .FUNCTION
.IF condition	Conditionally include/exclude some HTML code or DI commands
.IFDEF name	Execute if variable is defined
.IFNDEF name	Execute if variable is not defined
.ELSIF condition	Used with .IF
.ELSIFDEF name	Execute if variable is defined. Used with .IF
.ELSIFNDEF name	Execute if variable is not defined. Used with .IF
.ELSE	Used with .IF
.ENDIF	Used with .IF
.INCLUDE File=	Insert the contents of another file
.KEYS2VARS [Local] Hash= [Row=]	Create a variable for each key in a hash
.LIBRARY File=	Load a library of DI code
.MENU File=	Insert an expandable/collapsible menu
.RANDOM Max= name=	Set variable named name to a random integer from 1 to Max (inclusive)
.RANDOMIMG File= [Width=] [Height=] [Alt=]	Generate an image tag, taken randomly from a list
.RANDOMURL File=	Generate a random link, taken from a text file
.SEARCHFORM [Folder=] [Title=] [Size=]	Generate a form, so users can search for pages
.SET [Local] [name[=value]]	Set or display a variable

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