SQLPage built-in functions

In addition to normal SQL functions supported by your database, SQLPage provides a few special functions to help you extract data from user requests.

These functions are special, because they are not executed inside your database, but by SQLPage itself before sending the query to your database. Thus, they require all the parameters to be known at the time the query is sent to your database. Function parameters cannot reference columns from the rest of your query.

The sqlpage.enviroment_variable function

Introduced in SQLPage 0.11.0.

Returns the value of the given environment variable.

Example

SELECT 'text' AS component;
SELECT 'The value of the HOME environment variable is ' AS contents;
SELECT sqlpage.environment_variable('HOME') as contents, true as code;

Parameters