• Definitions
• Start Creating XML Variables
• Variable types
• Example

Definitions

Feedoor Global Variable (FGV) simply is a way to create variables that can be changed from one user to another when you create an application.

For example if you want to create a Feedoor feed theme and want to allow members to edit theme's style then you need to create FGV and submit it with that theme, think of HTML form fields, FGV act like those field but inside Feedoor web application.

XML Global Variables

Below is an example of a global feedoor variable.

<variables> <variable> <description>variable description</description> <name>variable_name</name> <type>text</type> <value>initial value</value> </variable>

 XML Tag Description of the above example

Variable Types

You can create variables with three types

1- text : a single "one line" text field

2- textarea : multilines "Text area" field

3- menu : dropdown menu field, With "menu" type you can add as many options as you want in the following format.

<option name="option1">option text</option>

Variables Example

Below is an example of FGV and how it will be translated in Feedoor.

This example was created for one of our Feeds theme

<variables> <variable> <description>Your Header</description> <name>header</name> <type>textarea</type> <value> <![CDATA[ <h1>RSS Feed</h1> <p>You are viewing an <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</acronym> feed. An RSS feed is a file allowing users a way to read updates to a website either through a third party RSS aggregator or other form of RSS syndication service. You can find out more about the RSS file format at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)" target="_blank">Wikipedia RSS entry</a>.</p> <p>You may use the <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locater">URL</acronym> of this document for any RSS purposes.</p> ]]> </value> </variable> <variable> <description>footer</description> <name>footer text</name> <type>text</type> <value> <![CDATA[Your Footer Text]]> </value> </variable> <variable> <description>Page direction</description> <name>pdirection</name> <type>menu</type> <value>LTR</value> <option name="LTR">From Left To Right</option> <option name="RTL">From Right To Left</option> </variable> </variables>

The above example will be translated to the following form