HTML3 Tokens and Encodings


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HTML³: Tokens and Encodings

Tokenised controls

for use in the User-Defined sections of the Footer and Address sections.

Code Explanation Example/further info

%DY Date 08

%ST st, th or nd by date st

%MN Month as number 04

%MO Month as long entry April

%M3 Month as 3 letters Apr

%WK Week of year 23

%DN Day with in year 098

%WN Week day as number 7 = Saturday

%W3 Week day as 3 letters Sat

%WE Week day as long Saturday

%CE Century as 2 digits 19

%YR Year as 2 digits 95

%24 Hour as 24 hour 15

%12 Hour as 12 hour 03

%AM am or pm am

%PM am or pm am

%MI Minute as 2 digits 25

%SE Second as 2 digits 50

%CS Centisecond as 2 digits 87

%TZ Time zone BST/DST/+01:00, etc

New tokens

%NL New Line linefeed

%OE Owner email address richard@goodwin.uk.com

%ON Owner nickname House of Mabel; The Webmaster; Rich

%OR Owner real name Richard Goodwin

%OW Owner web address http://www.goodwin.uk.com/richard/

%OP Owner phone number Your contact number (e.g. 01252705705)

%PR Profile real name Argo Interative Ltd.; or you if not available

%PE Profile email address info@argonet.co.uk; or you if not available

%PW Profile web address http://www.argonet.co.uk/; you if not available

%PP Profile phone number Your client's contact number (e.g. 01252705705)

%BB Body background colour #FFFFFF

%BT Body text colour #000000

%BL Body link colour #0000FF

%BA Body active colour #CCCCFF

%BV Body visited colour #000088

%TC Table colour #FFFFFF

%TR Table row colour #FFFFFF

%TD Table data (cell) colour #FFFFFF

%SC Style colour #FF0000

%E0 Effects colour 0 #00FF00

%E1 Effects colour 1 #44FF00

...

%EF Effects colour 15 #FF00FF

%H3 !HTML³ advert linked advert to my site

Special codes preceding other codes

%z Remove leading 0 from date/time (as standard)

%x Don't interpret, just output.

Special encoding

HTML³ has a few more encoding methods when you enable some of the output options from the Choices window.

Dollar encoding

This is tripped when using WML and/or PERL modes.

WML
In WML the dollar sign can be used for variable names in attributes, and must be encoded to $(varname); outside of attributes you have to encode it to a double dollar, $$, which HTML³ will do automatically.

In WML, any SINGLE dollar signs will be encoded to double dollars
In WML, DOUBLE dollar signs in attributes will be encoded to "$(varname)"
In WML, DOUBLE dollar signs outside attributes will be encoded to FOUR dollars (in case you're trying to write "Save $$$", you'd need "Save $$$$$$").

PERL
In PERL, you can use dollar signs for variables too, and so to print a dollar sign you need "\$".

In PERL, any SINGLE dollar sign gets encoded to "\$"
In PERL, any DOUBLE dollar sign is unencoded ("$").

PERL and WML together
If you have both PERL and WML switched on, PERL trumps WML, so in general see the rules for PERL.

In PERL PLUS WML, ANY DOUBLE dollar sign becomes a single, unencoded dollar sign.
In PERL PLUS WML, ANY SINGLE dollar sign becomes a double dollar sign with "\" encoding.

As you can see, in PERL PLUS WML mode, you can't get "$(varname)", as it's interpreting dollars as per the PERL model not the WML model.

In short, check what the dollar signs are doing, as it's probably quicker to modify them by hand.

Other encoding

There's also two other encoding characters, needed to output the print statements for PERL. One of these may interfere with your output.

Speechmarks and newline characters can be prefaced with a pipe mark - "|" - to get them to pass unencoded through the Perl encoding mechanism. Otherwise newlines become "\n" and speechmarks "\"". I've not come across any problems as yet, but that's not to say there aren't any. I'd guess that with Perl mode switched off they shouldn't alter any other output (e.g. plain HTML, WML etc. even with tokens.)