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You will find yourself frequently having to refer to this article, if you decide to make your own Cumulus templates (see section below for more information). This applies whether those templates are for [[Customised templates|web pages]], to implement [[Xml webtags|Extensible Mark-up Language files]], or [[Php webtags|PHP Hypertext Pre-processor scripts]]. This because web tags were introduced at different times, and there was no convention as to how they were named, so there is great inconsistency in the naming, making it very easy to spell a tag_name incorrectly. | You will find yourself frequently having to refer to this article, if you decide to make your own Cumulus templates (see section below for more information). This applies whether those templates are for [[Customised templates|web pages]], to implement [[Xml webtags|Extensible Mark-up Language files]], or [[Php webtags|PHP Hypertext Pre-processor scripts]]. This because web tags were introduced at different times, and there was no convention as to how they were named, so there is great inconsistency in the naming, making it very easy to spell a tag_name incorrectly. | ||
For example the character "Y" might be included in a web tag to denote '''yesterday''' or it might denote ''this year'' | For example the character "Y" might be included in a web tag to denote '''yesterday''', or it might denote ''this year''; where the Y is indicating '''yesterday''', it is sometimes a ''prefix'', sometimes a ''suffix''! | ||
Some web tags for '''today''' include a "T" as a suffix, some do not. "T" is also used as a suffix for the time-stamp tags. | |||
Some tags are all lower-case, some are camel-case, and some start with a capital letter. Have a look yourself at just how much inconsistency is present in the names in the tables below. | |||
In the web tag to PHP variable scripts, I have posted, see [[Php_webtags#Minimised_Upload_size]], I have tried to introduce better consistency in the PHP variable names, so "T" is added as a suffix to all "today" variables for example. Some other script authors try to match the inconsistent web tag names, so their script variable names are also inconsistent. | In the web tag to PHP variable scripts, I have posted, see [[Php_webtags#Minimised_Upload_size]], I have tried to introduce better consistency in the PHP variable names, so "T" is added as a suffix to all "today" variables for example. Some other script authors try to match the inconsistent web tag names, so their script variable names are also inconsistent. | ||
