Article title

The article title as used in Joomla.

Example:

<h1>{$JOOMLA_TITLE}</h1>

Joomla article ID

The Joomla article ID (of the article created by F2C) can be used in combination with 3rd party plugins or to create a unique ID (if it isn't part of your Joomla template).

<div class="{$JOOMLA_ID}">Article ID: {$JOOMLA_ID}</div>

Joomla article link

Creating a custom read more link can be achieved with 3rd party plugins or with this template parameter. The output is a Joomla URL for the created article without item ID (since it doesn't exist when we create the article). Now yo can switch off read more in category blog layout and create a link of your introduction image!

<a class="readmore" href="/{$JOOMLA_ARTICLE_LINK}">Read more ...</a>

We recommend you to use the {$JOOMLA_ARTICLE_LINK_SEF} parameter in Joomla 1.7 because of item id issues! Read the related article for more information.

Joomla SEF article link

This template parameter requires the use of the F2C Core SEF plugin.

Creating a custom read more link can be achieved with 3rd party plugins or with this template parameter. Now yo can switch off read more in category blog layout and create a link behind your introduction image!

<a class="readmore" href="/{$JOOMLA_ARTICLE_LINK_SEF}">Read more ...</a>

(without the / which the code plugin adds)

Joomla section ID

Can be used to display section related information in combination with Smarty IF statement.

{if $JOOMLA_SECTION_ID eq '1'}This is a personal portfolio item{else}This is a general portfolio item{/if}

Joomla section title

The section title can be used to display a subheading, to show what the article is about

<h3 class="subheading">{$JOOMLA_SECTION_TITLE}</h3>

Joomla section alias

The alias can be used to create URLs if SEF is on and the alias is set in the Joomla config to be used (and included in the URL)

 <a href="/{$JOOMLA_SECTION_ALIAS}">Back to the section</a> 

Joomla category ID

Like the section ID it can be used a unique identifier, used to display category related information or in building URLs

 {if $JOOMLA_CATEGORY_ID eq '1'}This is a personal category item{else}This is a general category item{/if} 

F2C Article ID

This renders the ID of the Form2Content item. Can be used as a unique identifier, for example:

<div class="{$F2C_ID}"></div>

Field value

The {$< FIELDNAME >} is the most common used template parameter whereby the < FIELDNAME > is replaced with the unique name YOU have given your fields.

The output of {$< FIELDNAME >} depend on the type of field and can be a simple string, html, image or url. See related documentation for more information per F2C field type.

Field caption

This template parameter renders the CAPTION used in the submisison form.

Field description

The description is often used to inform the submitter on what is expected. As in the submission form it can be shown in popup or mouse over if used in combination with a 3rd party plugin.

Example using JCE Mediabox plugin (which uses a class as trigger).

<div class="jcetooltip" title="{$< FIELDNAME >_DESCRIPTION}">More information>

Checkbox

The template parameter for a checkbox field type renders TRUE or FALSE. It is thus best used as a condition for Smarty.

{if $< fieldname >}
Checkbox is checked
{else}
Checkbox is unchecked
{/if}

Display list

The display list renders an ordered or unordered list form the list of values submitted.

{$< FIELDNAME >}

Will render (< ol > or < ul > depending on choice):

<ul>
<li>Value 1</li>
<li>Value 2</li>
</ul>

Image field

The output depends on the setting in the image field which can either be RAW (url to the uploaded image file) or HTML TAG (image html tag with link to the image).

Since the start we have added two extra parameters in F2C Pro, namely {$< FIELDNAME >_RAW} and {$< FIELDNAME >_IMAGE}.

For use please read the related documentation.

Image URL

This will render the URL to the uploaded image.

<img class="my_image" src="/{$< FIELDNAME >_RAW}" />

Image html tag

This will output an HTML image tag linked to the (re-sized) image. If you don't want to 'build' the < img > tag yourself it's easy to use. Do note that target settings etc. are not part of the tag.

Image alt value

The following example shows the use of the different image template parameters. Make sur you have alt & title input shown in your form!

<img src="http://documentation.form2content.com/{$< FIELDNAME >_RAW}" border="0" alt="{$< FIELDNAME >_ALT}" title="{$< FIELDNAME >_TITLE}" width="{$< FIELDNAME >_WIDTH}" height="{$< FIELDNAME >_HEIGHT}" />

Image title value

The following example shows the use of the different image template parameters. Make sure you show alt & title input in your form!

<img src="/{$< FIELDNAME >_RAW}" alt="{$< FIELDNAME >_ALT}" width="{$< FIELDNAME >_WIDTH}" height="{$< FIELDNAME >_HEIGHT}" title="{$< FIELDNAME >_TITLE}" target="_blank" / >

Image width

The following example shows the use of the different image template parameters. Make sure you show alt & title input in your form!

<img src="http://documentation.form2content.com/{$< FIELDNAME >_RAW}" border="0" alt="{$< FIELDNAME >_ALT}" title="{$< FIELDNAME >_TITLE}" width="{$< FIELDNAME >_WIDTH}" height="{$< FIELDNAME >_HEIGHT}" />

Image height

The following example shows the use of the different image template parameters. Make sure you show alt & title input in your form!

<img src="http://documentation.form2content.com/{$< FIELDNAME >_RAW}" border="0" alt="{$< FIELDNAME >_ALT}" title="{$< FIELDNAME >_TITLE}" width="{$< FIELDNAME >_WIDTH}" height="{$< FIELDNAME >_HEIGHT}" />

Image path (relative)

This renders the path (URL) from the Joomla images/stories directory to the (re-sized) image. Great to use with 3rd party plugins which work with the ROOT set as images/stories.

If you need to build a URL and use this parameter make sure you add the images/stories/!!

File upload field

The output of the file upload field can either be the (raw) URL to the file or a hyperlink (html tag)to the file.

File upload filename

This renders the filename in the F2C template.It can be used with the file upload field output set to RAW as shown here.

<a href="/{$< FIELDNAME >}" >{$< FIELDNAME >_FILENAME}</a>

File upload url

Build your custom link tag to the uploaded file, regardless of the output setting in the File upload field (i.e. html tag/raw)

<a href="/{$< FIELDNAME >_URL_RELATIVE}" >{$< FIELDNAME >_FILENAME}</a>

Geocode address

This renders the text from the address line

Geocode latitude

For useful examples please read the related documentation

Geocode longitude

For useful examples please read the related documentation

Image folder url

This renders the full (absolute) url to the FOLDER in which ALL the images for an ARTICLE are saved. The number of images depends on the number of image fields and the number of actual uploads.

The url look like this whereby the P relates to the F2C content type and F to the article.

domainname.com/images/stories/com_form2content/p1/f24

Image folder relative url

This renders the url to the image folder of the article from images/stories. It's often used by Joomla gallery plugins. The url wil look like:

/com_form2content/p1/f24

An examples of plugin code:

{ldelim}gallery{rdelim}{$F2C_IMAGES_PATH_RELATIVE}{ldelim}/gallery{rdelim}

Multi-select list CSV output

Database lookup (multi-select) CSV

Display list CSV output

This template parameter outputs a comma separated list of the display list values submitted by the user. Can be used with the Metadata Plugin to add keywords.

Display list Array output