Re: [Zope] publishing headlines

17 Aug 1999

      On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Tim Wilson wrote:
...
Hey Zopesters,
I'd like to publish science and technology headlines on our science
department's Web site. The headlines would be culled from an external site
such as the BBC. This would be akin to the Slashboxes on Slashdot.
Being a Zope newbie, I'd appreciate it if someone could provide an outline
to implementing this feature. I'm not sure how to begin. This would
obviously be of use to the Zope Portal Toolkit.
Short answer: look for my example.bbe next week
Long Answer:
	Assuming you want three columns you could create two folders
(left, right) and set the header to:

	# Table stuff
	<TR>
	  <TD>
	    <dtml-in left>
	      <dtml-sequence-item>
	    </dtml-in>
	  </TD>

	  <TD>

	the footer to the same as header except using right.

Then, in left or right put a DTML Method:
	slashdot:
		<dtml-var "slurp(url = ...)">

Then, in the Extensions folder of Zope2:
	slurp:
		# Check Python for exact syntax
		import urllib
		x = urllib.url(url)
		return x.read()

And you have it!  Modify the slurp to reformat the slurp as required

Cheers,

Anthony Pfrunder