This document describes the Texis Web Script (Vortex) language and
associated utilities. The information contained within may be updated
or changed in future versions.
Overview
Vortex Statements
Vortex Directives
Special Variables
$cmd $cmdlnargs $date $errnum , $errscript , $errline etc. $indexcount $rows.min , $rows.max $sqlresult. $loop $next $null $pathroot $ret $ret.count $ret.seq $ret.off $ret.err , $ret.ownerid , $ret.owner , $ret.groupid , $ret.group , $ret.size , etc. $ret.code , $ret.token , $ret.msg $sourcepath $url $urlfunc , $urlext $urlq $urlroot $userpath $__FILE__ $__LINE__ $__SCRIPT__ $__FUNCTION__ $__OSTYPE__ $__OSNAME__
Builtin Functions
sum - return sum of variable values fmt , strfmt - formatted output fmtcp - set fmt control parameters fmtinfo - get fmt control parameters mm - enable/disable automatic hit markup sb - enable/disable automatic search and replace apicp - modify Metamorph query control parameters apiinfo - get current Metamorph query control parameters sqlcp - modify low-level SQL control parameters pagelinks - paginate SQL results flush - flush output header - print HTTP header rex , split - regular expression search sandr - regular expression search and replace strstr , strstri - find substring in string substr - extract substring from string strcmp , strcmpi - compare strings strncmp , strnicmp - compare strings, fixed length strlen - length of string strrev - reverse string upper - convert to upper case lower - convert to lower case strfold - fold string by case strfoldcmp - compare strings folded by case sort - sort variables uniq , uniqcount - produce unique list of values count - return number of variable values strtonum - convert string to number rand - generate pseudo-random number randpick - return pseudo-random value of a variable srand - seed the pseudo-random number generator exit - exit program fetch - fetch URLs submit - submit HTML form urlinfo - get detailed page info urltext , urllinks - get formatted text, URL links urlcp - modify URL control parameters urlutil - URL/network utility nslookup - domain name and IP address lookup nsinfo - get info from last name lookup options - print options list radiobutton - print radio buttons list checkbox - print checkbox list doctype - print DOCTYPE declaration cal - print a calendar with links calrule - translate a calendar rule and iterate dates calendar - print calendar form caldate - create date list from calendar submission clist - create comma-separated list slist - create Metamorph set list wordlist , wordcount , wordoccurrencecounts - get words and frequencies from index createdb - create database adminsql - execute arbitrary SQL loguser - log user accesses userstats - get user statistics resetstats - reset user statistics abstract - generate an abstract from text rmcommon - remove common prefix/suffix from text pwencrypt - encrypt/hash password Unix-style encrypt - encrypt data decrypt - decrypt data readvars - read URL-encoded variables varinfo - get miscellaneous variable information getvar - get variable values setvar - set a named variable push - push values into a variable pop - pop value off a variable slice - get sequence of values from a variable vxcp - set Vortex control parameters vxinfo - get miscellaneous Vortex information hash - produce a hash or checksum for data geo2code - latitude/longitude encoding for regional search code2geo - decode latitude/longitude encoding pdfxml - convert Metamorph hit to PDF markup information xtree - maintain sorted list of values profiler - assist in searching query profiles read - read files send - print raw data spew - print files sleep - sleep for a while sysinfo - get system-specific information syscp - set system-specific information sysutil - file and system utilities stat - obtain file size and attributes watchpath - watch a file or directory for changes getpid - get process id procexists - see if process exists kill - terminate or send a signal to a process loadavg - return system load averages
XML API
MIME API
refInfo API Vortex Library Modules
Vortex Scheduling
Creating User Functions
Vortex Command Line Options
Vortex texis.ini Configuration Settings
Vortex Error Messages
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