🔙 Back to Addon Settings # Advanced Content Filter Help The advanced Content Filter uses Symfony's Expression Language. This help page includes a summary of [the Symfony's Expression Language documentation page.](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/expression_language/syntax.html) ## Basics The advanced content filter matches each post that is about to be displayed against each enabled rule you set. A rule is a boolean expression that should return either `true` or `false` depending on post variables. If the expression using a post variables returns `true`, the post will be collapsed and the matching rule name will be displayed above the collapsed content. A post will be collapsed if at least one rule matches, but all matching rule names will be displayed above the collapsed content. ## Expression Syntax ### Supported Literals - **strings** - single and double quotes (e.g. `'hello'`). - **numbers** - e.g. `103`. - **arrays** - using JSON-like notation (e.g. `[1, 2]`). - **hashes** - using JSON-like notation (e.g. `{ foo: 'bar' }`). - **booleans** - `true` and `false`. - **null** - `null`. A backslash (``\``) must be escaped by 4 backslashes (``\\\\``) in a string and 8 backslashes (``\\\\\\\\``) in a regex:: `"a\\\\b" matches "/^a\\\\\\\\b$/"` Control characters (e.g. ``\n``) in expressions are replaced with whitespace. To avoid this, escape the sequence with a single backslash (e.g. ``\\n``). ### Supported Operators The component comes with a lot of operators: #### Arithmetic Operators * ``+`` (addition) * ``-`` (subtraction) * ``*`` (multiplication) * ``/`` (division) * ``%`` (modulus) * ``**`` (pow) #### Bitwise Operators * ``&`` (and) * ``|`` (or) * ``^`` (xor) #### Comparison Operators * ``==`` (equal) * ``===`` (identical) * ``!=`` (not equal) * ``!==`` (not identical) * ``<`` (less than) * ``>`` (greater than) * ``<=`` (less than or equal to) * ``>=`` (greater than or equal to) * ``matches`` (regex match) To test if a string does *not* match a regex, use the logical ``not`` operator in combination with the ``matches`` operator: 'not ("foo" matches "/bar/")' You must use parenthesis because the unary operator ``not`` has precedence over the binary operator ``matches``. #### Logical Operators * ``not`` or ``!`` * ``and`` or ``&&`` * ``or`` or ``||`` #### String Operators * ``~`` (concatenation) For example: ``firstName ~ " " ~ lastName`` #### Array Operators * ``in`` (contain) * ``not in`` (does not contain) For example: ``user.group in ["human_resources", "marketing"]`` #### Numeric Operators * ``..`` (range) For example: ``user.age in 18..45`` #### Ternary Operators * ``foo ? 'yes' : 'no'`` * ``foo ?: 'no'`` (equal to ``foo ? foo : 'no'``) * ``foo ? 'yes'`` (equal to ``foo ? 'yes' : ''``) ### Supported variables Here are a sample of the available variables you can use in your expressions. You can also retrieve the variables of a specific post by pasting its URL below the rule list.
Variable Type Sample Value
author-id number 6
author-link string https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/profile/hypolite
author-name string Hypolite Petovan
author-avatar string https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/41084997915a94a8c83cc39708500207-5.png
owner-id number 6
owner-link string https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/profile/hypolite
owner-name string Hypolite Petovan
owner-avatar string https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/41084997915a94a8c83cc39708500207-5.png
contact-id number 1
uid number 1
id number 791875
parent number 791875
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thr-parent string urn:X-dfrn:friendica.mrpetovan.com:1:twit:978740198937907200
parent-uri string urn:X-dfrn:friendica.mrpetovan.com:1:twit:978740198937907200
content-warning string
commented date 2018-03-27 21:10:18
created date 2018-03-27 21:10:18
edited date 2018-03-27 21:10:18
received date 2018-03-27 21:10:18
verb string http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
object-type string http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark
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plink string https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029995abab33a5c006052376776
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body string Over-compensation #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Street]Street[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Night]Night[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=CarLights]CarLights[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Jeep]Jeep[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=NoPeople]NoPeople[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Close]Close[/url]-up [attachment type='link' url='https://www.eyeem.com/p/120800309' title='Over-compensation Street Night Car Lights Jeep No | EyeEm' image='https://cdn.eyeem.com/thumb/b2f019738cbeef06e2f8c9517c6286a8adcd3a00-1522184820641/640/480']Photo by @[url=https://twitter.com/MrPetovan]MrPetovan[/url][/attachment]
file string
event-id number null
location string
coord string
app string EyeEm
attach string
rendered-hash string b70abdea8b362dc5dcf63e1b2836ad89
rendered-html string Over-compensation #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Street" class="tag" title="Street">Street</a> #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Night" class="tag" title="Night">Night</a> #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=CarLights" class="tag" title="CarLights">CarLights</a> #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Jeep" class="tag" title="Jeep">Jeep</a> #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=NoPeople" class="tag" title="NoPeople">NoPeople</a> #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Close" class="tag" title="Close">Close</a>-up <div class="type-link"><a href="https://www.eyeem.com/p/120800309" target="_blank"><img src="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/proxy/bb/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uZXllZW0uY29tL3RodW1iL2IyZjAxOTczOGNiZWVmMDZlMmY4Yzk1MTdjNjI4NmE4YWRjZDNhMDAtMTUyMjE4NDgyMDY0MS82NDAvNDgw" alt="" title="Over-compensation Street Night Car Lights Jeep No | EyeEm" class="attachment-image"></a><br><h4><a href="https://www.eyeem.com/p/120800309">Over-compensation Street Night Car Lights Jeep No | EyeEm</a></h4><blockquote>Photo by @<a href="https://twitter.com/MrPetovan" class="userinfo mention" title="MrPetovan">MrPetovan</a></blockquote><sup><a href="https://www.eyeem.com/p/120800309">www.eyeem.com</a></sup></div>
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allow_cid string
allow_gid string
deny_cid string
deny_gid string
item_id number 791875
item_network string dfrn
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event-edited date null
event-start date null
event-finish date null
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event-type string null
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event-ignore boolean null
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tags list
  1. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Street" target="_blank">street</a>
  2. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Night" target="_blank">night</a>
  3. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=CarLights" target="_blank">carlights</a>
  4. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Jeep" target="_blank">jeep</a>
  5. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=NoPeople" target="_blank">nopeople</a>
  6. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Close" target="_blank">close</a>
  7. @<a href="https://twitter.com/MrPetovan" target="_blank">mrpetovan</a>
  8. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Close-up" target="_blank">close-up</a>
hashtags list
  1. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Street" target="_blank">street</a>
  2. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Night" target="_blank">night</a>
  3. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=CarLights" target="_blank">carlights</a>
  4. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Jeep" target="_blank">jeep</a>
  5. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=NoPeople" target="_blank">nopeople</a>
  6. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Close" target="_blank">close</a>
  7. #<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Close-up" target="_blank">close-up</a>
mentions string
  1. @<a href="https://twitter.com/MrPetovan" target="_blank">mrpetovan</a>