ARTICLES
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Nested loops
It is often useful to nest loops within each other to display more complicated elements. Nesting loops in this way makes it possible to use (...)
Criteria syntax
The loops criteria for are written between curly brackets just after the tables names.
Any SQL field in a table can become a selection criterion (...)Special language criteria
Some special loop criteria make it possible to retrieve articles in a specifically desired language.
lang
First of all, the quite simple lang (...)AJAX links
In addition to the includes that contain a pagination mechanism, it is possible to specify links to be reloaded using AJAX by adding the CSS (...)
#EXPOSE
Emphasises the element currently being read (in a list or menu)
Forcing joins
SPIP’s automatic detection capabilities are sometimes limited, and so two syntax variants are offered for forcing table joins or the fields of the (...)
Optional criteria
Sometimes it’s useful to make a selection only if the environment contains the requested tag. For example, we might hope to filter the loops based (...)
Optional criteria with operators
The use of optional criteria may be combined with the use of operators under certain specific conditions. In particular, it is necessary for the (...)
Contents of parent loops
Sometimes it’s useful to retrieve contents from a loop which is a parent of the current loop, just by using an ordinary SPIP tag. SPIP offers a (...)
The language of an object
Some editable objects in SPIP, such as sections and articles , have a language field stored in their corresponding SQL tables, which makes it (...)