Reserved Words¶

Reserved for Templates¶

To avoid template confusion, some words are reserved for ExpressionEngine’s use and can not be used in Template Names. Below is a list of reserved words.

There are some additional words that may be reserved in certain circumstances. The following list represents the ExpressionEngine defaults; however, the user-chosen trigger is what will be reserved.

category - reserved when the option to allow Category Names in URLs is enabled
forum - reserved when the Forum Module is installed
member - reserved when the Member Module is installed

Reserved for Global Variables¶

There are some words reserved for ExpressionEngine’s use that may not be used in naming User-Defined Global Variables. Below is a list of reserved words.

lang
charset
homepage
debug_mode
gzip_mode
version
elapsed_time
hits
total_queries
XID_HASH

Reserved for Fields¶

To avoid potential parsing conflicts, some words are reserved and are not available to use as channel or member fields. Below is a list of reserved words.

aol_im
app_version
author
author_id
avatar_image_height
avatar_image_width
avatar_url
captcha
charset
comment_auto_path
comment_entry_id_auto_path
comment_tb_total
comment_total
comment_url_title_path
count
current_time
date
debug_mode
edit_date
elapsed_time
email
embed
encode
entry_date
entry_id
entry_id_path
expiration_date
forum_topic_id
gmt_edit_date
gmt_entry_date
group_description
group_id
gzip_mode
hits
homepage
icq
interests
ip_address
ip_hostname
lang
location
member_group
member_id
member_profile_link
member_search_path
most_recent_comment
msn_im
occupation
path
permalink
photo_image_height
photo_image_width
photo_url
private_messages
profile_path
random
recent_comment_date
relative_date
relative_url
screen_name
signature
signature_image_height
signature_image_url
signature_image_width
site_index
site_name
site_url
status
stylesheet
switch
title
title_permalink
total_comments
total_entries
total_forum_posts
total_forum_topics
total_queries
total_results
trimmed_url
url
url_as_email_as_link
url_or_email
url_or_email_as_author
url_title
url_title_path
username
version
view_count_four
view_count_one
view_count_three
view_count_two
channel
channel_id
webmaster_email
yahoo_im