Getting started: Constants

• Defaults
• Modifiers

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Defaults

The following constants are defined by the Mako framework:

Name	Description
MAKO_VERSION	Holds the Mako framework version.
MAKO_CHARSET	Default charset used internally in the framework.
MAKO_APPLICATION_PATH	Defines the path to the app directory (without trailing slash).
MAKO_APPLICATION_PARENT_PATH	Defines the path to the parent directory of the app directory (without trailing slash).
MAKO_START	Starting point of the framework execution in ms.
MAKO_MAGIC_QUOTES	Holds the return value of get_magic_quotes_gpc().
MAKO_IS_WINDOWS	Is set to TRUE if Mako runs on a Windows system and FALSE if not.
MAKO_APPLICATION_ID	MD5 hash of the application path.
MAKO_PACKAGES_PATH	Path to the packages directory.

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Modifiers

The following constants can modify the behavior of the framework if defined:

Name	Description
MAKO_XHTML	If this constant is defined then the HTML helper will return XHTML compatible tags.