Glossary

Glossary

Admin, editor, member. The three account roles. Members can log in, editors can also edit content, admins can do everything. See Accounts and roles.

Alert. A message block, print.validation.alert('name'), that stays hidden until a model raises it or the page loads with ?done=name. See Forms and validation.

Annotation. An HTML comment Raster understands, such as <!-- print.cms.title -->. See Annotations.

App. A folder with a site's config, models, views and data. application/ by default; pick another with RASTER_APP.

Bean. RedBeanPHP's name for a database row as a PHP object. See The database.

Collection. A CMS list of items with the same fields (news, products), declared by render.cms.<name>. See The CMS.

CSRF (cross-site request forgery). An attack where another website makes a visitor's browser submit a form on your site. Raster blocks it. See Security.

Default (content). The text between an annotation's opening and closing tags. It shows when the model returns false or null, and is the starting value of a CMS field.

Development / production. The two standard environments. Development is forgiving and shows errors; production is fast, cached and locked down.

Draft. A collection item with enabled set to 0; only editors see it.

dry / res. res names a fragment of a view; dry inserts it into another view. Used for shared headers and footers.

Event. A named announcement (reservation.booked) that other models can listen to. See Events.

Flag. A true/false value on the template, shown with print.if.<flag>.

Fluid / frozen. Whether the database structure may change by itself (fluid, development) or only through raster schema --apply (frozen, production).

Honeypot. A form field hidden from people; bots that fill it are ignored.

Lint. Checking templates for mistakes without running them: php bin/raster lint.

MCP (Model Context Protocol). An open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools. Raster has an MCP server. See Working with AI agents.

Mock-up content / sample content. The realistic placeholder text in a template, which shows when there's no data and when the file is opened directly in a browser.

Model. A PHP class in models/<name>/<name>.php whose methods answer a template's annotations. See Models.

Page field. A CMS value stored per page, declared by print.cms.<name>.

PHP-FPM. The usual way PHP runs behind a web server such as nginx or Caddy.

Print / render. The two main annotations: print shows one value, render repeats HTML for each row of a list.

Revision. A saved version of a page's fields. Every save makes a new one.

Route. A rule in config/the_routes.php that sends a URL to a differently named view.

RTO (Request, Template, Object). The pattern Raster implements: a request picks a template, and the template pulls data from objects (models).

Schema. The structure of the database: tables and columns. In Raster, the templates define it.

Site-wide field. A page field whose name starts with site_; one value shared by every page.

Slug. A readable identifier for a URL, made from a title: our-new-office.

SQLite. A database stored in a single file, used by default.

Theme. A folder of views and assets in views/. default unless you set theme.

View. A template file: .html, .rss, .xml, .atom, .json or .txt.