Jive Basic Commands

Jive code is embedded in HTML text using braces. The braces may enclose an external Jive command or multiple basic Jive commands. Basic Jive commands are concerned with creating and assigning values to variables and with basic control structures.

The basic Jive commands are:

Creating and Assigning Variables
- var Command, create a variable
- set Command, assign value to a variable
- input Command, create a variable using HTML Form Input
- env Command, create a variable using system environment values
Control Structures
- if Command, conditional execution
- while Command, looping
- break Command, exiting control structures
Special
- shell Command, shells out to operating system to execute a command
expression, output to HTML text

A basic Jive command can also be an expression. The value of the expression is output to the HTML page. No other Jive command produces HTML output.

Example,

We have {if count count else 'No' end} bananas.