Article

Use the {article} Smart Tags to retrieve information about a Joomla article. This Smart Tag can return the value of any property from the Joomla Article object, including custom fields, as long as you know the property's name. It can access details from the current browsing article and any article by providing the article's ID using the --id property.

{article.PROPERTY [--id=ARTICLE_ID]}

Replace PROPERTY with the name of the property from the article's object. To pull the property from a specific article, provide the --id option and replace ARTICLE_ID with the article's ID. Omit the --id option to use the currently browsing article.

Below is a list of this category's most popular Smart Tags.

{article.id}

Returns the ID of the article.

{article.title}

Returns the title of the article.

{article.introtext}

Returns the intro of the article.

{article.fulltext}

Returns the complete text of the article.

{article.images.image_intro}

Returns the intro image of the article

{article.images.image_fulltext}

Returns the full text image of the article

{article.alias}

Returns the alias of the article.

{article.link}

Returns the SEF URL of the article.

{article.user}

Return information about the article's author, such as the name, email address, or even a custom field. This Smart Tag can return the value of any property from the Joomla User object as long as you know the property's name. This property mimics the behavior of the User Smart Tag. 

For instance, to retrieve the author's ID, use:

{article.user.id}

To return the author's name, use the following:

{article.user.name}

To retrieve an author's custom field value, use:

{article.user.field.FIELDNAME}

Custom Fields

To output a custom field value associated with the article, use:

{article.field.NAME}

Replace NAME with the name (not the label) of your custom field. For instance, if you have a custom field named favoriteColor:

{article.field.favoriteColor}

You can access additional properties of a custom field by appending the appropriate property name after the field name.

{article.field.NAME.rawvalue}
{article.field.NAME.id}

For advanced usage, including subforms, field labels and disabling content plugins check the full guide: Using Custom Fields in Smart Tags