Introduction

B@SE is Maropost Commerce Cloud's templating language. We use B@SE in our HTML templates to print out data from the database.

For example, you can use the [%thumb_list%] B@SE function to print out a list of your products and various details about them.

B@SE has two different types of tags, Functions and Data tags.

Data Tags

Data tags are simple, stand-alone tags which print a single value from the database. For example, if you want to print the name of your category on the category page, you would use the [@content_name@] tag, which would output something like:

Waterslides

Not all data tags can be used everywhere. Some are exclusive to certain pages and even certain Functions.

For example, you can use the [@SKU@] data tag to print the SKU of a product on a product page. This tag, however, would not display anything on a category or content page. This is because a content page does not have a SKU!

Function Tags

Function tags are more complicated than data tags. They are often configurable through parameters and they can often output more than one value.

If you want to print a list of the names all products in a category with the ID of 100, you can do this with the [%thumb_list%] function, coupled with the [@name@] tag to print the product name.

<ul>
    [%thumb_list type:'products' category:'100'%]
        [%param *body%]
            <li>[@name@]</li>
        [%/param%]
    [%/thumb_list%]
</ul>

The Anatomy of a Function

There are three components to a function: The function, the inline parameters and the parameters.