Template Writing Guide (Velocity)

If you are not familiar with Velocity, please see the website at jakarta ( there's lots of good documentation there.) The next best place to look is in the tempates/ directory, where there are several sample templates.

The following variables will be available with the template context:

• $items
  The list of items available. Each item should have at least the following properties defined:
  • id: a unique identifier
  • title: title of this result
  • link: URL reference
  • description: description of this item or details
  Additional properties may be available on a per-plugin basis. To access the individual items, you'll probably want to use a main loop, something like this:

  #foreach ($item in $items) $item.xxx (see above) #end

  Also, using $!item.xxx causes no text to display if the property is not defined.
• $count
  The number of items in the list