2 From: Andreas Jung <lists@...108>
- --On 8. Dezember 2006 10:38:25 -0800 Javier Subervi <javier_subervi@...112> wrote:
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But when I try to make it work in an External Method like this:
stuff = '<html>\n' stuff = stuff + '<body>\n' stuff = stuff + '<table width="100%" align="center" class="text" border="3" cellspacing="5" bgcolor="#E694FE" bordercolor="#D24BFA" bordercolorlight="#DD77FB" bordercolordark="#C512FA"><tr><td>\n' stuff = stuff + '<span metal:use-macro="here/en-us/Quotes/10/macros/quote"></span><br />\n' stuff = stuff + '<div align="center"><span class="text">\n' stuff = stuff + ' <a href="All_Quotes.pt" target="_top"><b>Show me all the quotes!</b></a>\n' stuff = stuff + '</span></div>\n' stuff = stuff + '</td></tr></table>\n' stuff = stuff + '</body>\n' stuff = stuff + '<html>\n'
An external method is not a ZPT. The external method returns just HTML. Why and how should Zope treat interpret *something* inside the HTML generated by the external method as macro? If you want a macro, the called object has to be a ZPT - nothing else.
- -aj
If you want something different: you must instantiate a Pagetemplate inside your external method, add the content through the related API and let the pagetemplate render the content. But there is usually no need for such an approach. Somehow you're trying to do something the wrong way round.
What I'm trying to do is change the line in question to this: stuff = stuff + '<span metal:use-macro="here/en-us/Quotes/' + `randrange(1, len(self.objectValues()), 1)` + '/macros/quote"
</span><br />\n'
So it generates a random number. Now, that's the "easy" scenario, and for that I originally had just a Page Template. However, next up I need to be able to accommodate another folder which requires: 1) walking the folder, opening each subfolder 2) creating a tuple of the folder (or numerical representation) plus the number of the quote 3) randomly choosing a quote from all the subfolders Ideas? Perhaps I should instantiate a page template in the ext. method. How would I do that? TIA, Javier ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com