Reporting language

Examples are:

<?ezs SOURCE filename.html ?> includes the file "filename.html". This could be useful for including a menu, banner, etc...

<?ezs INCLUDE filename.html ?> includes the file "filename.html" AND fills in any form fields. This is probably just going to confuse people, but it might be useful.

Or, try this:

<?ezs REPORT database.asc QUERY ?>

Field 1: {field_1} Field 2: {field_2}
{/report}

This is actually rather sophisticated. It prints a formatted report from an ASCII file ("database.asc") on the server. See below for tricks you can do with the stuff inside the braces. QUERY is something of the form

"field_1=value&field_2=val*"

You can use the ? and * characters as wildcards the same way you do in DOS file names.

Note that there needs to be a space between the last parameter and the ?> in this report language.

You can also include the answer to a previous question as part of the HTML to be printed with this syntax:

<$field_name>

You could also print the environment variables

<$$REMOTE_ADDR>

This variable inclusion can be rather complicated You can use comparisons and field values. The syntax here is borrowed from Perl and C.

field_name: just prints the field value

$env_var: prints an environment variable

field=value?text to print if the comparison is true:text for false!text if the field is not found

field=$field?$field:$field

The characters ? : ! are used as delimiters here. There should be no spaces.

Note that you can use the $ to print a field value instead of a fixed value.

Comparisons may be:

• field=value direct case-insensitive comparison
• field eq value same
• field ne value not-equal-to
• field lt value less than
• field lte value less than or equal to
• field gt value greater than
• field gte value greater than or equal to
• field s value the field contains the substring value.

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