Gautam Saha wrote at 2003-11-17 08:54 -0600:
... Here are my questions:
1. How to get the ID of an object (say "news" in this case so that I can conditionally suppress the HREF, so that if I am in the $portal_url/news page, the link will not display?
If "o" is a Zope object "o.getId()" (as a python expression; it is "o/getId" as path expression) is its id. When you call a template, then inside it "template" refers to the template, i.e. "template.getId()" is the template's id.
2. How can I use tal so that I don't have to hard code my portal URL path (like href="/my.portal.edu/news")? I want something like href="$portal_url/news").
If you call "portal_url", it returns the portal's URL. You can use this in a TALES "string" expression: "string: ${container/portal_url}/news"
3. Any online ref/example of how to use the Tal/python scripts with ZOPE/CMF/Templates with small example will be helpful.
Read the Zope Book (2.6 edition) and look into the "Examples" folder of "Products/PageTemplates". -- Dieter