I don't think there's a "keep-it-simple" answer that will let you use http://something.com/reg/b6ac3fe9 the way you want to.. In Zope, the URL somesite/foo/bar means "use bar in the context of foo," _not_ "pass bar to foo" In typical usage, bar is a _method_ of foo or is _contained by_ foo. Since what you want to do is to pass an arbitrary value to a specific object, the very most straightforward ways would be to roll them up in the URL, use POST, or put the value in a cookie. Thus, you can try: <form action=reg method=post> <input type=hidden name=my_id value=<dtml-var some_value>> <input type=submit value="Finish Registration"> </form> Or: <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setCookie('my_id', some_value)"> Either one will allow you can catch my_id in reg thus: <dtml-var my_id> and your URL will be the ultra-nice http://something.com/reg That's about it for uncomplicated solutions. You *could* write a registration product that trapped unbound methods and used them as passed values... but not only did you say you didn't want to write a product, I'm not sure it would be such a great idea to do something like that anyway. :-) HTH, Dylan At 03:37 PM 11/22/2002, jonatan wrote:
hi!
i would like to make nice looking url's .. what you said would help me, but i'd like to have an url like http://something.com/reg/b6ac3fe9
jonatan
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 23:46, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
I think what you want is to generate a URL like so:
http://some.site.com/reg?my_id=b6ac3fe9
And then within reg you can do:
<dtml-if my_id> <dtml-call "do_something(my_id)"> </dtml-if>
Does that help? If not, could you be a little more specific about what you're trying to accomplish?
Dylan
At 02:01 PM 11/22/2002, jonatan wrote:
hi!
i have a very simple problem: i have a dtml method called reg which should finalize a registration ... so i would like to have such urls: http://some.site.com/reg/b6ac3fe9
if reg is a dtml method, then entering this url gives me a not found error ... ok cool .
lets do a python script, and traverse_subpath. subpath doesnt exist (but its binded!!) so lets use traverse_subpath ...
but now i am in a python script, i dont want to output html from here, i just want to check a row in the database!
(outputting html gives me nice < stuff - this is great too!)
i searched for traverse_subpath, and didnt find something of use. just a traversable dtml document product.
ARGH!
please! i dont want to install products or make some magic with python scripts interacting with dtml! i started using zope because of its simplicity, i dont know why isnt there a simple way of doing this??
or perhaps there is but i cannot find it?
i am very desperated :)
all i need is a <dtml-if> checking against the part after 'reg' .. (b6ac3fe9 here) ... i dont want python scripts for a single if ... why do you zope developers think that traverse_subpath should be used in a pythn script only? how can i achieve the same in dtml?
why isnt http://something/reg/foo/bar working as dtml, but is working as a python script?
zope is cool, i love smoking too, but sometimes it can be so hairy ... damn .. :)
thanks,
-jonatan.
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