Internet Templates

ASM comes with three different internet templates - ``plain'', ``rss'' and ``sm.com''.

plain produces very simple HTML output - just the animal's picture and a few details in a list.

rss produces XML output for interpreting by an RSS feed reader.

sm.com is much more advanced, using CSS hover elements and javascript to do image substitution for icons and other tricks.

You can edit these templates (look in the /internet directory of the System->Media Files section) and add your own new ones if desired - as far as ASM is concerned, a template is just a another folder in that internet folder.

An internet template is split into three files:

• pih.dat: The header file - this is output for each page before any animal records.
• pif.dat: The footer file - this is output for each page after all the animal records.
• pib.dat: The body file - this is output for each animal record and has keys to pull bits of data from the database and the animal's image. The keys available are those available for the animal document (see wordkeys in the appendix at the end of this document) and are enclosed in $$ - eg: $$ShelterCode$$ will output the animal's shelter code.

A number of special keys are allowed in the pih.dat and pif.dat files that pull information from other areas of the system. These are:

• $$ORGNAME$$ - Becomes your organisation's name
• $$ORGADDRESS$$ - Your organisation's address
• $$ORGTEL$$ - Your organisation's telephone number (all of these org fields can be found under System->Options)
• $$ORGEMAIL$$ - Your email address (this is taken from System->Configure Email)
• $$USER$$ - Substitutes the current system user, including their real name
• $$DATE$$ - The current date
• $$TIME$$ - The current time
• $$DATETIME$$ - The current date and time
• $$VERSION$$ - The ASM version
• $$NAV$$ - The page navigation bar generated by the publisher
• $$TOTAL$$ - The number of animals output by the publisher