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The graphic below shows a high level overview of the some of the inputs, processes and methods of rendering.</p> <p><a href="/wiki/File:Cchost-content.png" class="image"><img alt="Cchost-content.png" src="/images/0/0c/Cchost-content.png" width="420" height="293" /></a></p> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div class="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#User_Uploaded_Content"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">User Uploaded Content</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Upload_vs._File"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Upload vs. File</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#User_generated_topics"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">User generated topics</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Topic_Format_Commands"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Topic Format Commands</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Admin_Generated_Content"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Admin Generated Content</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Pages_Authored_with_Content_Manager"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Pages Authored with Content Manager</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Pages_Authored_Outside_ccHost"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Pages Authored Outside ccHost</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h1><span class="mw-headline" id="User_Uploaded_Content">User Uploaded Content</span></h1> <p><i>User uploaded content</i> refers to the content that your users upload to ccHost. This might be music files, images, font, lesson plans, whatever the administrator has chosen as valid system input.</p> <p>User content is placed under the <b><content_directory>/<user_name></b> directory, where <content_directory> is administered at <b>admin/paths</b> and <user_name> is the log in name of user associated with the content.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Upload_vs._File">Upload vs. File</span></h2> <p>Upload records represent one or more physical files. There is meta data for the overall upload record and also for each individual file that upload record represents.</p> <p>In ccHost, users 'Submit an upload' which takes an initial file. That creates an upload record with a single physical file record. User's have the option to 'add', 'replace' or 'delete' physical files in that upload record, or delete the entire upload record which deletes all the physical files and their meta-data records.</p> <p>All uploaded user content in the system is displayed using the Query API. This is explained in detail in <a href="/wiki/Cchost/How_User_Content_is_Displayed" title="Cchost/How User Content is Displayed">How User Content is Displayed</a>. Admins and developers can extend the system using the query and template system as explained in <a href="/wiki/Cchost/Custom_Query_Templates" title="Cchost/Custom Query Templates">Custom Query Templates</a>.</p> <h1><span class="mw-headline" id="User_generated_topics">User generated topics</span></h1> <p>User generated reviews and forum posts are stored in the topics database.</p> <p>All topic content in the system is displayed using the Query API. Admins and developers can extend the system using the query and template system as explained in <a href="/wiki/Cchost/Custom_Query_Templates" title="Cchost/Custom Query Templates">Custom Query Templates</a>.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Topic_Format_Commands">Topic Format Commands</span></h2> <p>When entering a topic you have the option to use ccHost formatting short cuts based on a variation of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbcode">BBCode</a> tags.</p> <table class="wikitable"> <tr> <td style="text-align: center"><b>Code</b></td> <td style="text-align: center"><b>Effect</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[b]bolded text[/b]</code></td> <td><b>bolded text</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[i]italicized text[/i]</code></td> <td><i>italicized text</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[u]underlined text[/u]</code></td> <td><span style="text-decoration:underline;">underlined text</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[url]http://example.org[/url]</code></td> <td><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://example.org">http://example.org</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[url=http://example.com]Example[/url]</code></td> <td><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://example.com">Example</a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[img=http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nc-jp.png][/img]</code></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nc-jp.png">http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nc-jp.png</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[quote]quoted text[/quote]</code></td> <td> <blockquote> <p>quoted text</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[quote=fourstones]attributed quoted text[/quote]</code></td> <td> <p><i><b>fourstones says:</b></i></p> <p><i>attributed quoted text</i></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[big]Large Text[/big]</code></td> <td><font size="6">Large Text</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[small]Small Text[/small]</code></td> <td><font size="-2">Small Text</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[up][/up]</code></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://ccmixter.org/ccskins/shared/images/thumbs_up_tiny.gif">http://ccmixter.org/ccskins/shared/images/thumbs_up_tiny.gif</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[right][b]floated right markup, img tag works here too[/b][/right]Normal markup that wraps around the right text</code></td> <td> <div style="float:right"><b>floated right markup, img tag works here too</b></div> Normal markup that wraps around the right text</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[query=t=links&tags=hip_hop][/query]</code></td> <td><i>(produces query results)</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>[color=red]Red Text[/color]</code><br /> <small>(also blue or green)</small></td> <td><font color="#FF0000">Red Text</font></td> </tr> </table> <h1><span class="mw-headline" id="Admin_Generated_Content">Admin Generated Content</span></h1> <p><i>Admin generated content</i> refers to pages authored for the site, generally text and images. Examples might be a <i>credits</i> page, <i>terms of use</i>, the home page, etc.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Pages_Authored_with_Content_Manager">Pages Authored with Content Manager</span></h3> <p>As of ccHost 5 admins can use the <a href="/wiki/Cchost/admin/Content_Manager" title="Cchost/admin/Content Manager">Content Manager</a> to create pages without having to worry about HTML markup or page file management. Read more about the <a href="/wiki/Cchost/admin/Content_Manager" title="Cchost/admin/Content Manager">Content Manager</a>.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Pages_Authored_Outside_ccHost">Pages Authored Outside ccHost</span></h3> <p>Administrators can put HTML (PHP) files that they edit outside of ccHost and directly into the system. 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