I would not use the name 'getObject' as this is the name of a zope routine.

I like to use dtml-with statements to access subfolders (easy, maintainable, and I usually do more than one thing in a given subfolder at a given time)

<dtml-with Plone>

<dtml-with reports>

<dtml-with Site2>

<dtml-var myObject>

If you do want to use restrictedTraverse you can do it with dtml:

<dtml-var "restrictedTraverse('Plone/reports/Site2/myObject')">

however you must ensure the myObject is something that the dtml-var tag can work with (eg. if myObject is a zclass with property fields, dtml-var won't be able to display anything for you - you won't get an error, just nothing will show - unless you view the html source code that is rendered and you will see something like '<zclassname at myObject>')

HTH

Jonathan

----- Original Message -----

From: Ruben Montejano

To: zope@zope.org

Sent: December 10, 2003 5:24 PM

Subject: [Zope] help with restrictedTraverse

Hi everybody,

   The task I am trying to accomplish is to be able to call an object(it could
be a dtml method, python script, php document, etc), given its path as a string
parameter.

   Let's say my directory structure looks like this:

/-+-Plone-+-homepage
          +-reports-+-Site1
                    +-Site2-+-myObject
                    +-...
          +-...

    I need to call myObject, which path is '/Plone/reports/Site2/', from any
other directory within the directory structure, but at this time I'm using
homepage.

    Browsing the mailing list I found that I could use restrictedTraverse, so
I created an External Method getObject under the homepage directory with the
following code:

def getObject( self ):

    return self.restrictedTraverse('/Plone/reports/Site2/myObject')

myObject in this case is a php document that contains:

<?php

include "http://2ksvr/ploneSupp/lines.php?wk=2002-06-01";

?>

Now using the External Method from the homepage's index_html:

<dtml-var getObject>

This is what I get, instead of the chart that this object displays:
<?php include "http://2ksvr/ploneSupp/lines.php?wk=2002-06-01"; ?>

I also tried creating a python script with the following code:

return container.restrictedTraverse('/Plone/pig_reports/test_farrowing/crChart')

but the script returns this:

<?php

include "http://2ksvr/ploneSupp/lines.php?wk=2002-06-01";

?>

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas or help is more than welcome.

Thanks,

       Ruben Montejano.
       email: rubemontejano@yahoo.com

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email: rubemontejano@yahoo.com

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