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7. I say above "1 or more template files". Since you can tell Cumulus to process/upload files at different intervals, you might want to include those web tags that change frequently (now and today for example) in a template file that you will action at the real time interval, and include those web tags that rarely change (e.g. yesterday, station-related, units) in a template file that is only uploaded at end of day. Yet another template file can be uploaded at normal updating interval, that might include the monthly and yearly tags for example. You decide what suits your own restrictions on total size of files to upload at different frequencies. | 7. I say above "1 or more template files". Since you can tell Cumulus to process/upload files at different intervals, you might want to include those web tags that change frequently (now and today for example) in a template file that you will action at the real time interval, and include those web tags that rarely change (e.g. yesterday, station-related, units) in a template file that is only uploaded at end of day. Yet another template file can be uploaded at normal updating interval, that might include the monthly and yearly tags for example. You decide what suits your own restrictions on total size of files to upload at different frequencies. | ||
8. Having produced this template file, give it a name that makes sense to you, some people include a T just before the extension to remind you it is a template file. The normal extension is ".txt", but you could be inventive and put ".cum" if you want; Cumulus will not care what extension is used for a file it is asked to process. | 8. Having produced this template file, give it a name that makes sense to you, some people include a T just before the extension to remind you it is a template file. The normal extension is ".txt", although some peole use '.tpl' to indicate it is a template, but you could be inventive and put ".cum" if you want; Cumulus will not care what extension is used for a file it is asked to process. | ||
9. The template files are then listed in the "extra files" settings of Cumulus, so they are processed at a selected interval and turned into PHP scripts. In this case your customised pages would replace any reference to a Cumulus web tag <code><#xxyyzz optional_parameter></code> by a PHP variable or array - either <code>$xxyyzz[optional_index]</code> or <code>$xyyxwx</code>. | 9. The template files are then listed in the "extra files" settings of Cumulus, so they are processed at a selected interval and turned into PHP scripts. In this case your customised pages would replace any reference to a Cumulus web tag <code><#xxyyzz optional_parameter></code> by a PHP variable or array - either <code>$xxyyzz[optional_index]</code> or <code>$xyyxwx</code>. | ||