Difference between revisions of "Help:Variables"
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| <tt><nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki></tt> || {{PAGENAME}} || Displays name of page (without namespace) | | <tt><nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki></tt> || {{PAGENAME}} || Displays name of page (without namespace) | ||
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| <tt><nowiki>{{PAGENAMEE}}</nowiki></tt> || {{PAGENAMEE}} || Same as PAGENAME, but formatted for an URL. | | <tt><nowiki>{{PAGENAMEE}}</nowiki></tt> || {{PAGENAMEE}} || Same as PAGENAME, but formatted for an URL. | ||
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| + | Also, in templates, you can specify a variable in it with <nowiki>{{{VARNAME}}}</nowiki>. | ||
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| + | Then, when the template is put onto another page, you can specify the variable as follows: | ||
| + | <nowiki>{{TEMPLATENAME | VARNAME = VALUE }}</nowiki> | ||
| + | which replaces the variable with VALUE. Note that if you name the variables <nowiki>{{{1}}},{{{2}}},{{{3}}}</nowiki>, etc. then you can specify the values without listing the variable names in the template call. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable MetaWiki] | *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable MetaWiki] | ||
Revision as of 22:02, 23 November 2007
A variable is called in the form of a template (one without parameters). Variables often refer to specific aspects of the respective page or the wiki, or to time and date variables.
| Date | |||
| {{CURRENTDAY}} | 22 | Displays day | |
| {{CURRENTYEAR}} | 2024 | Displays year | |
| {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} | November | Displays month | |
| {{CURRENTTIME}} | 08:13 | Displays time | |
| {{CURRENTHOUR}} | 08 | Displays hour | |
| More | |||
| {{PAGENAME}} | Variables | Displays name of page (without namespace) | |
| {{PAGENAMEE}} | Variables | Same as PAGENAME, but formatted for an URL. |
Also, in templates, you can specify a variable in it with {{{VARNAME}}}.
Then, when the template is put onto another page, you can specify the variable as follows:
{{TEMPLATENAME | VARNAME = VALUE }}
which replaces the variable with VALUE. Note that if you name the variables {{{1}}},{{{2}}},{{{3}}}, etc. then you can specify the values without listing the variable names in the template call.
