Features

Section: About G-Cows
Subsection: Features
Last revision: December 25, 2005

• Complete scripting language supporting:
  • recursive file inclusion;
  • boolean, integer and string variables;
  • automatic and explicit type conversion
  • conditional expressions;
  • while and for loops;
  • arrays and foreach loops;
  • functions returning file sizes and modify dates;
  • functions performing link corrections;
  • functions performing string operations (tokenizing, substitutions etc.)
• Strong interaction with your GNU/Linux system
• the Unix-like architecture consists in simple elements arrangeable in endless combinations: G-Cows takes advantage of this philosophy by integrating itself with your GNU/Linux system;
• the Cows interpreter is able to execute commands, scripts and programs written in every language whose interpreter or compiler is installed on your machine;
• Cows-mkgen generates makefiles allowing to handle complex dependencies among site elements.
• Built-in facility for handling multiple versions of a site from the same contents
  • create an alternate, fully accessible version of you site for visually impaired users, slow modem connections and so on;
  • create a printable version of each page;
  • pages can be cross-linked to allow visitors to easily jump from one version to another.
• Built in facility for handling multilingual sites.
  • you can gradually translate pages into other languages;
  • pages without a translation will be displayed in the default language with, optionally, an additional message for the visitor. This way, you can simply translate a simple message like "Sorry, this page has not been translated yet; reverting to default language (English)" in as many languages you want. Then, you gradually translate pages: users will browse the site and translated pages will be displayed in their language, the others in site's default language.