Goodrichs wrote:
Well I still don't know how to reference a Zope object from a string, but I have a interim solution for now.
I created a method in my root directory called "buildHeader";
<dtml-let newname="( _['root']+'/'+ _['prefix']+'/'+ _['path']+ _['fold'])"> <IMG SRC="<dtml-var newname>"> </dtml-let>
Then in _any_ document within the site I can add the following code;
<dtml-var "buildHeader( root=REQUEST.BASE0, <-- urlbase of my website(works with site access!) fold=PARENTS[0].id, <-- id of parent directory path='images', <-- path to my images folder prefix='hd')"> <-- prefix identifier of image
The correct image is displayed based on the directory location of the document. It's not much but it's a start on what we are looking for. I still..... don't understand why I cannot create a Zope reference on the fly. It seems strange to me that object references must be hardwired into Zope. That I can see, if you do not already have the object within your namespace, it is inaccessible.
Possibly I do not see this correctly, must every object link within a Zope website be hardcoded?
You can access other objects, just not by name. You can iterate through all of an objects parents, looking for objects with a certain meta type. However, this doesn't let you get at an object through inheritance, which is what you want. --sam