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Development

Templates

General

VideoDB uses the Smarty Template engine. Thus everybody interested in writing his own templates should have a look at the Smarty Documentation

What follows is a list of all templates used by VideoDB and the variables assigned to them. Of course you can split your templates by using Smarty's {include} statement.

All Templates

The following variables are available in all templates:

name	type	description
$lang	associative array	Contains all language specific strings for the current language. Have a look at the files in the language directory for available keys.
$config	associative array	All config options as set in the Configuration Screen

header.tpl

This template is included at the top of every page and should set up the needed HTML headers and include the stylesheet

name	type	description
$header	associative array	Contains the URLs for the top navigation. The available keys are: browse, random, search, stats, new, setup, edit, view, del, borrow, imdbBrowser, help. You should check if the key is empty and only display a link when an URL was given.
$style	string	Deprecated - use $config.style instead.
$langcode	string	Deprecated - use $config.language instead.
$localnet	boolean	True if VideoDB is accessed from the localnet else false.

footer.tpl

The footer is included at the bottom of every page

filter.tpl

This template displays the row of available filters in the browsing view.

name	type	description
$filters	associative array	Contains all available filters as keys and their Names (translations) as values
$filter	string	The currently selected filter in the browsing view
$showtv	boolean	True if TV-Episodes are to be shown else false.
$listcolumns	integer	This is currently only used in the modern template and determines how many columns are to be used in the browsing view.

browse.tpl

name	type	description
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