HTML commands

Thu May 16 16:21:16 PDT 2013

Chris, with version 5.014 of filepro, if, for example, ab is a dummy 
field, you can use:

Then:  html :tx ab

or

Then: jsfile :tx ab

to output just about any value of ab as-is.

BUT you need to be consistent for each output document that you are 
outputting - that is open, write to, then close the output file with one 
technique or the other - don't mix html commands with jsfile commands 
with filepro's file functions.

BUT, just opening and writing one line with "html :cr"  html :tx yyyyy, 
and closing it with "html :cl", will create  five lines of output with 
the <HTML>, <HEAD>, </HEAD> and </HTML> being supplied by filepro 
automatically.

I prefer to have total control of the output, so I use jsfile which only 
outputs the lines for which I used a "jsfile :tx" command.  So for 
instance if I am creating an input form, I will do so with some code 
like this:

@menu  Then:  '<some parsing routine perhaps to parse input data from 
previous input form request>

              Then:  '<some transaction processing perhaps based on what 
was parsed - i.e., maybe updating a record>

              Then:  jsfile :cr "somedir/somefile"

              Then:  jsfile :tx "blah blah blah"  'where this is 
everything for the doc - headers, JS, CSS, HTML, etc.
                          (and this could be hundreds of lines starting 
with just "jsfile :tx" to output the entire html document)
              Then:  jsfile :cr-       'finally close the file like this

              Then:  'maybe some commands here to close files opened by 
lookups if needed, then

              Then:  exit

So this way you only need three commands of this type to output 
everything: jsfile :cr, jsfile :tx and jsfile :cr-.

You can also use filepro's OPEN(), WRITELINE() and CLOSE() I/O functions 
to also take complete control of what is output.

Bruce

On 5/16/13 6:24 PM, Chris Rendall wrote:
> I'm running filePro 5.0.14 and I'm trying to use the HTML commands.  I'm using jQuery and HTML5, but there a lot of HTML commands that don't seem to be native to filePro, like the <label for... > tag.
>
> Is there a way to get filePro to return HTML tags that aren't built in?  I've tried using :ZZ by itself, but that gave me an error.  Do newer versions of filePro have more HTML commands?
>
> --- Chris
>
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