Vae Guide
- About Vae
- No Assumptions, No Hacking
- Separation of Content and Layout
- Web Professionals Required
- A Sampling of Vae Sites
- Designer Portal
- Content Management
- Getting Started with Structures
- Structures
- Simple Structures
- Superstructures
- Hybrid Structures
- Validations
- Structure Type Reference
- Collection
- Section
- External
- Text
- Text Area
- Rich Text Area
- Checkbox
- Color
- Date
- File
- Image
- Password
- Video
- Association (single)
- Association (multi)
- Tags
- Hosting Platform Deluxe
- Accessing Your Webspace
- PHP and MySQL
- Haml and Sass
- Generating PDFs
- Summary -- Processing by Extension
- Global PHP Includes
- Custom Error Pages
- Permalinks
- SEO: Search Engine Optimization
- Caching
- Vae Local Development Environment
- VaeML
- Validating Forms
- <v> shortcuts
- <v:form>
- <v:checkbox>
- <v:country_select>
- <v:date_select>
- <v:file_field>
- <v:hidden_field>
- <v:password_field>
- <v:radio>
- <v:select>
- <v:state_select>
- <v:text_area>
- <v:text_field>
- <v:a>
- <v:a_if>
- <v:asset>
- <v:captcha>
- <v:cdn>
- <v:collection>
- <v:create>
- <v:date_selection>
- <v:debug>
- <v:disqus>
- <v:divider>
- <v:else>
- <v:facebook_comments>
- <v:facebook_like>
- <v:file>
- <v:fileurl>
- <v:flash>
- <v:formmail>
- <v:fragment>
- <v:gravatar>
- <v:if>
- <v:if_paginate>
- <v:if_time>
- <v:img>
- <v:imurl>
- <v:nested_collection>
- <v:nested_divider>
- <v:newsletter>
- <v:nowidows>
- <v:option_select>
- <v:pagination>
- <v:pdf>
- <v:php>
- <v:repeat>
- <v:require_ssl>
- <v:rss>
- <v:section>
- <v:session_dump>
- <v:set_default>
- <v:site_seal>
- <v:store:add_to_cart>
- <v:store:address_delete>
- <v:store:address_select>
- <v:store:addresses>
- <v:store:cart>
- <v:store:cart:discount>
- <v:store:cart:items>
- <v:store:cart:shipping>
- <v:store:cart:subtotal>
- <v:store:cart:tax>
- <v:store:cart:total>
- <v:store:checkout>
- <v:store:credit_card>
- <v:store:credit_card_select>
- <v:store:currency>
- <v:store:currency_select>
- <v:store:discount>
- <v:store:forgot>
- <v:store:google_checkout>
- <v:store:if_bank_transfer>
- <v:store:if_check>
- <v:store:if_credit_card>
- <v:store:if_currency>
- <v:store:if_digital_downloads>
- <v:store:if_discount>
- <v:store:if_field_overridden>
- <v:store:if_logged_in>
- <v:store:if_money_order>
- <v:store:if_paypal>
- <v:store:if_paypal_express_checkout>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_bank_transfer>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_check>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_credit_card>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_digital>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_money_order>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_paypal>
- <v:store:if_recent_order_paypal_express_checkout>
- <v:store:if_shippable>
- <v:store:if_tax>
- <v:store:item:if_discount>
- <v:store:item:price>
- <v:store:login>
- <v:store:logout>
- <v:store:payment_methods_select>
- <v:store:paypal_checkout>
- <v:store:paypal_express_checkout>
- <v:store:previous_order>
- <v:store:previous_orders>
- <v:store:recent_order>
- <v:store:recent_order_items>
- <v:store:register>
- <v:store:shipping_method>
- <v:store:shipping_methods_select>
- <v:store:user>
- <v:text>
- <v:template>
- <v:update>
- <v:users:forgot>
- <v:users:if_logged_in>
- <v:users:login>
- <v:users:logout>
- <v:users:register>
- <v:video>
- <v:yield>
- <v:zip>
- VaeQL
- PHP API
- vae()
- vae_asset()
- vae_cache()
- vae_cdn_url()
- vae_create()
- vae_customer()
- vae_data_path()
- vae_data_url()
- vae_destroy()
- vae_disable_vaeml()
- vae_errors()
- vae_file()
- vae_flash()
- vae_image() and vae_sizedimage()
- vae_image_grey()
- vae_image_reflect()
- vae_imagesize()
- vae_loggedin()
- vae_multipart_mail()
- vae_permalink()
- vae_redirect()
- vae_register_hook()
- vae_register_tag()
- vae_render_tags()
- vae_richtext()
- vae_store_add_item_to_cart()
- vae_store_add_shipping_method()
- vae_store_cart_item()
- vae_store_cart_items()
- vae_store_checkout()
- vae_store_clear_discount_code()
- vae_store_create_coupon_code()
- vae_store_create_tax_rate()
- vae_store_current_user()
- vae_store_destroy_all_tax_rates()
- vae_store_destroy_coupon_code()
- vae_store_destroy_tax_rate()
- vae_store_discount_code()
- vae_store_find_coupon_code()
- vae_store_loggedin()
- vae_store_orders()
- vae_store_recent_order()
- vae_store_register()
- vae_store_remove_from_cart()
- vae_store_total_weight()
- vae_store_update_cart_item()
- vae_store_update_coupon_code()
- vae_store_update_order_status()
- vae_store_update_tax_rate()
- vae_style()
- vae_text()
- vae_tick()
- vae_update()
- vae_video()
- vae_watermark()
- eCommerce
- Creating the Structures for a Typical Store
- The Shopping Flow in VaeML
- Customizing Order Confirmation E-Mails
- Viewing Orders
- Accepting Real Money: Integrating an Internet Merchant Account
- Real-Time Shipping Calculations
- Integrating With a Third-Party for Order Fulfillment
- Collecting Sales Tax
- Store General Settings
- Analytics
- Tutorials and Examples
- Full Site Tutorial: Vae Records
- Full Site Tutorial: Erin Smith Photography
- Resizing Images
- Paginating A Collection
- A Contact Form
- Using XML to Send Data to Flash App
- Using AJAX
- Making An AJAX Photo Gallery
- Backstage
- Content Tab
- Store Tab
- Customers Tab
- Newsletter Tab
- Site Tab
- Users Tab
- Usage / Billing Tab
<v:require_ssl>
Ensures that a page is being accessed via an SSL connection. If not, the
user will be redirected to the same page, but over https://
. This is
useful for building form pages that need to accept sensitive data.
This functionality is implicitly invoked by <v:store:checkout>
, so you
don’t need to include this tag on your store checkout pages, but if you
plan to load in the checkout page via AJAX, you should make sure that
whatever page is loading it is on an SSL conncetion. This tag might be
useful in that situation.
Required Attributes
None.
Optional Attributes
None.
Self-Closed
This tag is usually self-closed.
Sample Usage
To ensure that a page is accessed via an SSL connection, add this to the source: