Mephisto

When a request is processed on the Mephisto public page, the request goes through a dispatch action with three basic stages:

• Dispatch (figure out what action to call)
• Processing (execute the action, pull required data from the database)
• Render (build the templates and display the page)

The global variables (variables that are available in every template are:

• site

Variables

Site

This represents the current site object. The Site object has these properties:

• id: ID of the Site
• host: the domain name of the current site. ex: ‘mephistoblog.com’
• title: Title of the (current) Site
• subtitle: Subtitle of the (current) Site
• articles_per_page: Gives you the number of articles to be displayed per Page
• tag_path: Path to the tags area, default is ‘tags’
• search_path: Path to the search area, default is ‘search’
• accept_comments: Boolean value determining if comments are allowed for this site.
• sections – Array of the sections in this site.
• blog_sections – same as above, but only blog type sections.
• page_sections – same as above, but only page type sections.
• tags – An array of the article tags for this site.

Article

• id: ID of the article
• title: Title of the article
• permalink: Permanent link fragment (unchanging url) to the article. (2006/7/23/another-test-article)
• url: Full permalink to the article (/2006/7/23/another-test-article)
• comments_feed_url: Url to the comment ATOM feed.
• changes_feed_url: Url to the article changes ATOM feed.
• excerpt: Excerpt of the article.
• body: Body of the article.
• content: Either the full body on single article pages, or the excerpt (if used) on article listings.
• published_at: Date the article was published
• updated_at: Date the article was last updated
• comments_count: Number of comments the article has.
• accept_comments: Boolean value determining if comments are allowed.
• is_page_home: Boolean indicating whether this article is the index of a paged section.
• comments: Array of all the comments for this article.
• sections: Array of all the sections this article is attached to.
• blog_sections: Same as above, but only blog type sections.
• page_sections: Same as above, but only page type sections.
• tags: Array of the tags for this article.

Section

• id: ID of the section
• name: Name of the section
• path: Path of the section (e.g. A section named Tips and Tricks would have a path of tips-and-tricks unless a custom path was specified in the admin)
• url: Full url to the section.
• is_home: Boolean returning whether or not the current section is the home section.
• is_paged: Boolean returning true if the section is a paged section.
• is_blog: Boolean returning true if the section is a blog section.
• articles_count: Number of articles attached to this section.
• archive_path: Path to the archives section for this section. Default is ‘archives’
• articles: Latest articles for this section.
• comments: Latest comments for any article in this section.
• pages: All the paged articles for this section in their custom order.
• earliest_month: Month of the earliest article in this section.
• months: Array of dates for the earliest article in this section to now.

Comment

• id: ID of the article
• title: Title of the article
• permalink: Permanent link fragment (unchanging url) to the article. (2006/7/23/another-test-article)
• url: Full permalink to the article (/2006/7/23/another-test-article)
• body: Body of the article.
• published_at: Date the article was published
• created_at: Date the comment was posted
• author: Name of the comment poster.
• author_email: Email of the comment poster.
• author_ip: IP Address of the comment poster.
• author_url: HTTP URL of the comment poster, if given.