General Placeholders

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STS 4: General Placeholders list

This list of General placeholders is directly from the STS User Manual, reproduced here for you convenience.
File: /includes/modules/sts_inc/general.php

You do not have to explicitly list or declare this in any of the STS modules' settings. They are available for all scripts.

Placeholder	Description
$date	The current date
$sid	The string for the Session ID in the format "SessionIdVarName=WhateverTheSessionIdIs"
$cataloglogo	Shop logo with link to index.php. Before v4.3: oscommerce.gif in catalog/images folder. Since v4.3: header_logo.gif, in template folder/images/english (or other language).
$urlcataloglogo	The URL used by the $catalog logo
$myaccountlogo	The MyAccount graphic and link to account.php . Before v4.3: header_account.gif in catalog/images folder. Since v4.3: header_account.gif, in template folder/images/english (or other language)
$urlmyaccountlogo	Deprecated in v4.3, use $urlmyaccount instead
$cartlogo	The shopping cart graphic and link to shopping_cart.php. Before v4.3: header_cart.gif in catalog/images folder linking to shopping_cart.php (without SSL). Since v4.3: header_cart.gif, in template folder/images/english (or other language), linking to the same page (with SSL if present).
$urlcartlogo	Deprecated in v4.3, use $urlcartcontents instead
$checkoutlogo	The Checkout graphic and link to checkout_shipping.php. Before v4.3: header_checkout.gif in catalog/images folder. Since v4.3: header_checkout.gif, in template folder/images/english (or other language).
$urlcheckoutlogo	Deprecated in v4.3, use $urlcheckout instead.
$contactlogo	Added in v4.3: image header_contact_us.gif, located in template folder/images/english (or other language), and linking to contact_us.php .
$loginofflogo	Added in v4.3. If customer is not logged: displays header_login.gif in template folder/images/english (or other language), linking to login.php. If customer is logged: displays header_logoff.gif in template folder/images/english (or other language), linking to logoff.php
$breadcrumbs	The "Top > Catalog > whatever..." breadcrumbs text and links
$myaccount	The text version of "My Account" and link to account.php.
$urlmyaccount	The URL used by the MyAccount function
$logoff	The Logoff text and link
$urllogoff	The URL for the LogOff function
$myaccountlogoff	shows "My Account \| Logoff" if logged in or "My Account" if not logged in
$cartcontents	The text version of the "Cart Contents" function
$urlcartcontents	The URL of the shopping_cart.php page, using SSL (if available). Buggy before v4.3 (was same as $cartcontents).
$checkout	The text version of the "Check Out" function
$urlcheckout	The URL used by the "Check Out" function
$templatepath	Deprecated in v4.3, use $templatedir instead.
$templatedir	Contains the path to the template folder, without trailing slash.
$headertags	New in v4.0.4: The meta tags for the <head> section of the html page. By default contains only the <TITLE> meta tag. This variable is automatically inserted into the $headcontent variable, so you don't need to use it in your template. Note: This variable can be modified by some modules to allow for other meta tags, for example a module for header tags controller modifies this variable to add description and keywords to the pages
$numrequests	The text "1489 requests since Friday 11 August, 2006"
$footer_text	The osCommerce copyright information and "Powered By osCommerce" texts.
$banner_only	The banner, generally displayed at the bottom of the pages.
$langid	New in v4.5.8: This tag allows you to add the language ID to your image link to call an image according to the language selected by the user.