HTMLBusiness Functions

Use

To support the design of HTML templates when developing applications driven by the Internet Transaction Server (ITS), you can use HTMLBusiness functions.

HTMLBusiness provides a set of standard functions that generate HTML fragments and allow you to design HTML templates independent of the ITS configuration. This is desirable, since only HTML templates without hard-coded URLs or path names for graphic files work without problems when transferred to other systems.

HTMLBusiness also allows you to develop your own functions.

For a list of standard HTMLBusiness functions, see below
For information about developing your own functions, see HTMLBusiness Function Development

Here is a list of standard HTMLBusiness functions. For further information, click on the links:

Function	Brief Description
assert Function	Generates a message when an HTML field value is in error.
getPersistent Function	Determines whether data is persistent for an entire user session.
imageURL Function	Generates dynamic links to graphics files.
includeFrame Function	Converts multi-frame applications to single pages.
mimeURL Function	Generates dynamic links to graphics files.
printf Function	Returns a string using the specified formatting.
setPersistent Function	Makes data persistent for an entire user session.
strCat Function	Appends one string to another string.
strCmp Function	Compares two strings for equality (case-sensitive).
strCpy Function	Creates a copy of a given string.
striCmp Function	Compares two strings for equality (case-insensitive).
strLen Function	Returns the number of characters in a given string.
strLwr Function	Returns a lowercase copy of a given string.
strMask Function	Leaves special HTML characters uninterpreted.
strnCmp Function	Compares the first n characters of two strings for equality (case-sensitive).
strniCmp Function	Compares the first n characters of two strings for equality (case-insensitive).
strStr Function	Searches for a substring within a string.
strSub Function	Returns a substring from a given string.
strUpr Function	Returns an uppercase copy of a given string.
toLower Function	Returns a lowercase copy of a string.
toUpper Function	Returns an uppercase copy of a string.
wgateURL Function	Generates URLs that are compatible with the current Web server.
write Function	Writes output to the HTML page without inserting spaces or other separators.
writeEnc Function	Writes output to the HTML page, converting all non-alphanumeric characters to hexadecimal.