The HTML for a typical APC-AA site can come from many places which can confuse
people used to doing all their HTML in a single place.
| Location |
What to put there |
| .shtml file |
static HTML that doesn't repeat, and is not changed often. Can be edited
with any standard web editor by someone who has write permissions on the
web server. The HTML has lines like <!--#include "/apc-aa/view.php3
--> (or apc-aa/slice.php3) to include a PHP file which will fetch information from the Slice's design. |
| Design section of the Slice |
This is used to list a range of items in a slice, or display a single
item. Someone with Admin permission on the slice can go to apc-aa/admin
-> Admin -> Views or apc-aa/admin -> Admin -> Display/Index
or Display/Fulltext. HTML can be placed here associated with the top and
bottom of a listing, with each item, and with groupings of items. The HTML
includes alias such as _#HEADLINE |
| Aliases such as _#HEADLINE |
Each alias defines how to show a particular field, it does this by choosing
a function (e.g. f_h) and parameters. For example _#HEADLINE is usually
just output, while a Link might be output surrounded by <a href="
and ">. They can be edited by anyone with administrator priviliges
on your slice by going to Admin->Fields->choose field ->Edit. A
field can have several different ways of being output, for example a date
could have aliases for both short (1/1/200) and long (1 January 2000) forms
of output. |
| Functions such as f_h |
These define functions certain common ways fields are output. They are
defined in the PHP code, and so have to be edited by developers, except
that there is an extension function f_u that calls functions from apc-aa/include/usr_aliasfnc.php3,
these can be written by anyone who understands PHP3. |
| Data |
Lastly of course, the HTML could be in specific fields in your data. |
