Mambo Template Explained

Date functions

To display current date, use mosCurrentDate() function. This function has one input argument which is the date format. If none specified, it will use the default format ‘_DATE_FORMAT_LC‘ which is set in your language file (by default it is language/english.php). The returned date is also offset according to your setting in Global Configuration (‘Locale’ tab, ‘Time Offset’ option).

<?php
  echo mosCurrentDate();
?>

To display date other than the current date, there is a function called mosFormatDate() which accepts 3 arguments: the date, format (optional), and offset value (optional). If format is not set, again ‘_DATE_FORMAT_LC‘ will be used. If offset is not set, the value in Global Configuration will be used. The input date should have the format of ‘yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss‘.

<?php
  echo mosFormatDate('2005-01-01 10:00:00');
?>

Both functions are defined in installdir/includes/mambo.php.

Other functions and variables

mosGetBrowser($agent)

Input of this function is the user-agent string (can be obtained from $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] variable) and the output is the user-friendly name and version of the browser. The browser list used to match against the user-agent can be found in installdir/includes/agent_browser.php.

Usage example:
```
<?php
  echo 'You are using '.
      mosGetBrowser($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']).
      ' to browser this site';
?>
```
mosGetOS($agent)
Input of this function is also user-agent string and the output is the user-friendly name of user’s operating system. The operating system list used to match against the user-agent can be found in installdir/includes/agent_os.php.

Usage example:
```
<?php
  echo 'Your operating system is '.
       mosGetOS($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
?>
```
$mosConfig_sitename
This variable contains your site name as defined in ‘Site Name’ field in Global Configuration page.

Usage example:
```
<?php
  echo "Welcome to $mosConfig_sitename!";
?>
```
$mosConfig_absolute_path
This variable contains the absolute path to your Mambo installation directory.

Usage example:
```
<?php
  $footer = $mosConfig_absolute_path.'includes/footer.php';
  include_once($footer);
?>
```

$mosConfig_live_site
This variable contains the URL of $mosConfig_absolute_path.

Usage example:

<?php
  echo '<img src="' . $mosConfig_live_site .
       '/templates/mytemplate/images/logo.gif">';
?>

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