En:What is the effect of the EDIT tags?

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Question:

Why are the tags <START_EDIT> and <END_EDIT> part of the ...edit.tpl templates and what is their purpose?

Answer:

When the page is switched to the edit mode these two tags are replaced by the <form> ... </form> tags which enclose the edit field of the online editor.
<START_EDIT> and <END_EDIT> are replaced by the same routine that also replaces the user defined tags from the .tag file, with the only difference that they are not defined by the user in the .tag file but hard-coded in the phpCMS sourcecode (as are a number of other hardcoded tags, e.g. the ones that display the phpCMS logo etc.).

When phpCMS is not running in edit mode, these two tags are replaced by "nothing", in other words they are ignored. This is the same as if you had written in your tag file: <START_EDIT> :=