What is a TPL file?

A file with .tpl extension is a template file created and used by HTTP File Server (HFS) which is a file sharing application program to send and receive files over the web technology HTTP instead of the FTP protocol. It is used to build HTML pages dynamically based on the template information that is defined to have settings with similar layout, styling and scripts. Applications that require the same settings can be assigned the same template file and HFS will return the requested page dynamically on runtime based on this template file.

TPL File Format

TPL files are stored in human readable format and contain HTML which is human readable Markup Language. In addition to HTML, a TPL file may also contain template level CSS and Javascript to define the layout and actions to be performed by all the pages generated from this template file.

TPL Sections

TPL sections contain the HTML, CSS or JavaScript code that is used by HFS while generating the output page. Each section starts with square brackets ([]) and is defined by percentage sign (%). A TPL file may have the following sections.

TPL Style Section

It includes the styling related information that may or may not use embedded CSS files reference. An exmaple of styling section is as follow.

[style]
.row { color: #666 }
span.size_file { font-size:10px; color:#666 }
.button, .big, .little, th { font-weight:normal; font-size:9pt; color:#222; }
#back { background:#222;border:1px solid #000;padding:5px;margin-top:10px;}
.little { font-size: 8pt; color:#2F4F4F;margin-top:10px; }
.path_title { color: #999;margin-top:10px; }
img { border-style:none }
.row { background:#f8f8f8;}
.row a { text-decoration:none; }
.comment { font-size:7pt; color:#666; background:#f3f3f3; padding:3px; border:1px solid #ccc; margin-top:2px; }
.column { color:#222; font-size:13pt; font-weight:bold; padding-bottom:0; }
.flag { font-weight:bold; font-size:8pt; background:#fff; color:#990000; text-align:center; border:1px solid #ff0000; }
.text { color:#222; }
span.desc { color: #999; }
#everything { margin-top:20px;border-top:1px solid #ccc;padding-top:10px; }
html {
font-size: 62.5%;
}
body {margin:0px; padding:0px; background-color:#fff; color:#222; font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Tahoma", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif; font-size:120%;quotes:"\201C" "\201E" "\2018" "\2019";}
table, tr, td {font-size: inherit;}
a:link {color: #222;}
a:visited {color: #666;}
a:hover {	color: #000;}
a:active {}
a:focus {}
img, a img {border: none;}
#path {color: #333;background-color: #f8f8f8; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;padding: 3px 8px;margin: 0px;}
#path li {display: inline;padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 3px; background-image: url(arrow.gif);background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: 1px 5px;}
#path span {font-weight: bold;}
#header {margin: 24px 48px;}
#header h1 {font-size: 250%;color: #222;  margin: 0;margin-bottom: 6px;}
#header h2 {font-size: 120%;color: #aaa;  margin: 0;}
#content { margin: 24px 48px;}
#footer {    margin-top: 48px;    border-top: 1px solid #ccc;    padding: 6px;    text-align: center;    color: #888;    font-size: 80%;}
#footer a {color: #888;}

The link section contains information about the URL and can include references to events such as button and its action.

[login-link]
<li><a href="%encoded-folder%~login" class=buttonx>Login</a></li>
[loggedin]
<li><a href="#" class=buttonx>Logged in as: %user%</a></li>

Comment Section

The comment seciton of TPL includes are for generating comments and is defined as follow.

[comment]
<div class=comment>%item-comment%</div>

Upload Section

The upload section returns the actual HTML response from the server based on the template settings as shown in the following example.

[upload]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<title>myHFS</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">\n%style%\n</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id=path>
<li><strong>Folder:</strong> <a href="/">root</a>%folder%</li>
</ul>
<div id=header>
<h1>myHFS</h1>
<h2>Final HFS Template Framework for Ishare USM Community</h2>
</div>
<div id=content>

<h3>myHFS Rules</h3>
<p>I'm sharing stuffs unpaid, so please respect me by understanding these rules: </p>
<ul class="contacts">
<li>Sorry if your downloading activity was suddenly interrupted/disconnected. It might be due to some technical problems.</li>
<li>Be nice. Don't use IDM or any download manager program with many connections. Set it to 1 or you will be banned from my server.</li>
<li>Anything I shared here is the right of my freedom. Good or bad, the decision is in your hands. I'm not be responsible for any consequences.</li>
</ul>
<p class=credit>Sharing among my university fellows is an unique culture here, in Engineering Campus, USM. Sharing via LAN by using HFS software is the best underground activity for everyone. Sharing is loving!</p>
</div>

</body></html>

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