• calcms input are URL queries that are processed by controllers
• query result variables are embedded into templates and printed out.
• Each controller comes with a predefined set of result variables.
• You can create new templates or customize available ones

See parameters for available retrieval URLs and parameters.

• Templates are stored as plain text files at directory „templates“.
• Each template starts with Content type header and may set the browser cache lifetime. (Cache is configured at configuration_file.)
• Templates are setup using HTML::Template language

Variables marked as parameters can be used by put to URL:

&name=value

. Example: output a link to the calendar with the date of the current event

http://localhost/agenda/calendar.cgi?date=<TMPL_VAR start_date>

Depending on template's filename or file extension result variables have different content.

• Template filenames containing „list“ or „menu“ will not include the full event description, but title and excerpt only.
• ICal or Atom output will have plain text event description while '.html' templates will contain full HTML output.
• Templates with file extension '.json', '.ical', 'atom.xml', result values will contain special output format, especially for datetime.

The full set of controller parameters is described here.