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Special Variables

In addition to the CGI environment variables described on Standard Environment Variables, you can use any of the following variables in your server-parsed HTML commands:

DATE_GMT
The current date and time in Greenwich mean time. This variable uses the format specified with the timefmt argument to the #config command, if any.

DATE_LOCAL
The current date and time in the local time zone for the server. This variable uses the format specified with the timefmt argument to the #config command, if any.

DOCUMENT_NAME
The name of the file using this variable. Contains only the file name, not the location.

DOCUMENT_URI
The path to the file using this variable relative to the page root directory. Contains the directory location and the file name. For example, /parsed_docs/myfile.shtml.

LAST_MODIFIED
The last modification date of the file using this variable. This variable uses the format specified with the timefmt argument to the #config command, if any.

QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED
The unescaped version of any search query the client sent, with all shell-special characters escaped with \.

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