These are ready made functions that you can use on your site

Create a list of links to the files in the named folder.
You can set the sort and direction of the list.
Which folder is to be listed
how many links to show on each page

Xtboard thread

Function settings

Sort type Last modified Name Size Type Direction Ascending Descending Per page

Template variables

.file_mime. .file_name. .file_name_parsed. .file_size. .file_size_kb. .file_size_mb. .file_type. .file_url. .file_date. .file_time. .file_datetime.

Template

<a href=".file_url.">.file_name_parsed.</a> (.file_size.)<br />

Filter

Use the query (?) to match any one character
Use the asterisk (*) to match any sequence or string of characters.
If the first character in the filter is minus (-) the filter will become negative

Function code

<xt:filelist sort_type="updated" sort_dir="asc" per_page="4" folder="/YOUR_FOLDER" template="&lt;a href=&quot;.file_url.&quot;&gt;.file_name_parsed.&lt;/a&gt; (.file_size.)&lt;br /&gt;" filter=""/>

Add the contents of another file or page at this point on the page.
Use this to add text files or text files containing scripts or html code or the html content of a html page. (head and container code is stripped before include)

<xt:include file="/FOLDER/FILE"/>

Add various counters to your page.
Daily 4
Weekly 5
Monthly 22
Total 33603
VALUE= 1(daily) 2(weekly) 3(monthly) 4(total)

<xt:counter type="VALUE"/>

In html code you can also set the timezone so the type 1 2 and 3 counters will reset at your local midnight
TIMEZONE=difference in hours from GMT (you can also set for 30 minute time zones

<xt:counter type="VALUE" tzone="TIMEZONE" />

How many visitors on the page now.
1

<xt:online />

Add the time and date to your site.
2024-11-21 22:12
So much more can be done with the "Time and date function" using html code that it needs a page to its self.
Time and date

Show the visitors ip address or that of their host.
3.23.92.64
ec2-3-23-92-64.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com

<xt:ipaddress type="VALUE"/>
VALUE="1" ip , "2" host

Show the name or flag of the visitors country.

<xt:country type="VALUE"/>
VALUE="1" text "2" flag

Show details of the visitors browser or the icon for their browser.
Mozilla
Mozilla/5.0
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)

<xt:browser detail="VALUE"/>
VALUE="1" low , "2" medium , "3" high , "4" icon

Include the contents of a rss feed at this point on the page.
Another powerful function but a little knowledge of html and xml (rss) is required to set the template
<div style="width:90%;border:1px solid #900;background:#ddd;padding:2px;margin:0 auto"> <div style="font-size:125%;border:1px solid white;background:#900;color:white;padding:2px;margin:2px"> <b style="background:white;color:#900">B</b> <b style="background:white;color:#900">B</b> <b style="background:white;color:#900">C</b> World News Headlines </div> <xt:feed feed="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml" number="1" template="&lt;div style=&quot;background:#bbb;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;.link.&quot;&gt;.title.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.description." /> </div>

Add an advertisment at this point in the page.
For information on placing your own ads on your Xtgem site seeThis page

This function now has it's own page
blog function page