LuCI has a simple regex based template processor which parses HTML-files to Lua functions and allows to store precompiled template files. The simplest form of a template is just an ordinary HTML-file. It will be printed out to the user as is. In LuCI every template is an object with an own scope. It can therefore be instanciated and each instance can has a different scope. As every template processor. LuCI supports several special markups. Those are enclosed in `<% %>`-Tags. By adding `-` (dash) right after the opening `<%` every whitespace before the markup will be stripped. Adding a `-` right before the closing `%>` will equivalently strip every whitespace behind the markup. # Builtin functions and markups ## Including Lua code *Markup:* <% code %> ## Writing variables and function values *Syntax:* <% write (value) %> *Short-Markup:* <%=value%> ## Including templates *Syntax:* <% include (templatename) %> *Short-Markup:* <%+templatename%> ## Translating *Syntax:* <%= translate("Text to translate") %> *Short-Markup:* <%:Text to translate%> ## Commenting *Markup:* <%# comment %> # Builtin constants | Name | Value | ---------|--------- |`REQUEST_URI`|The current URL (without server part)| |`controller`|Path to the Luci main dispatcher| |`resource`|Path to the resource directory| |`media`|Path to the active theme directory|