Dieter: Could you explain a little more I still seem to be trying to input everything all on one record. I need to break out in an array then each needs to be added to the database as a separate record. Maybe I missed something. Thanks, Todd Todd Loomis writes:
I want to insert to a database a id and a option, however each id can have more than one option. And I want them inserted separately to make 2 records.
The form will be checkboxes they check all the options they want and they all get save in the database seperately but with the same id. I've tried to no luck. Can anybody help? Some basic observations:
ZSQL Method bodies are DTML objects. You use DTML there to generate SQL in the same way you use DTML usually to generate HTML. Especially, you have the "dtml-in" in order to iterate over sequences. A ZSQL Method can generate and execute several SQL commands. These commands need to be separated by "<dtml-var sql_delimiter>". Thus, you use something like: <dtml-in options> insert into ... <dtml-unless sequence-end><dtml-var sql_delimiter></dtml-unless> </dtml-in> You need to be a bit careful with your options in the form. It should probably contain something like: <input type="hidden" name="options:list" value="dummy"> ... <input type="checkbox" name="options:list" value="..."> ... The hidden variable ensures that you always get something for options. The ":list" ensures that the case of a single option leads to a list as well as multiple options. When you use the hidden variable approach as shown above, then your options list contains a bogus first element. You need to drop it again. The "dtml-in options" above becomes 'dtml-in expr="options[1:]"'. Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@z... http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )