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User Documentation

Run your site day to day: pages and content, users and permissions, automations and settings.

Marketers Content editors Admins
Content Pages, blogs, files, menus and every other content entity.
Accounts Users, groups, authors and permissions.
System Site system, rewrites, routes, audit log and settings.
Customization Layouts, custom fields, input types and custom entities.
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Developer Documentation

Build on the platform: templates and Smarty, the PHP function surface, module references and integrations.

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Smarty in Core dna How the engine is wired and what it hands your template.
The template security policy Which PHP functions and modifiers a template may call.
Template resolution order Site overrides framework. Which file wins, and what not to touch.
Global template variables The underscore objects for request, site, user, menus and config.
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