Chris, Someone will likely tell you the answer why its returning a value as a long integer (which is what it is). I had the same problem long ago. But I've been piping the results through int for so long that I've forgotten the problem. <a href="collect_stats.html?record_id=<dtml-var "_.int(record_id)">"> Cheers, Paz Try rebuilding your database? When we went from irix6,5 to linux rh7.2 we had the same result. Come to think of it, I don't know why it doesn't occur anymore. -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Chris Gray Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:31 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Zope + MySQL problem I have a working Zope site that I want to move to a more powerful machine. I've set up the new machine (Debian GNU/Linux). I've moved Data.fs and everything looks fine. I've dumped the mysql database and reloaded it and everything looks fine ... except a query to the MySQL database that retrieves an integer record id value now retrieves it with the suffixed 'L' for a python long integer. This 'L' goes into a URL and breaks the next step in the process since Zope gives an error that '1727L' (or whatever) is not a proper integer. The code is basically the following inside a dtml-in loop on a database query: <a href="collect_stats.html?record_id=&dtml-record_id;"> This used to render as: <a href="collect_stats.html?record_id=1727"> and now renders as: <a href="collect_stats.html?record_id=1727L"> Why? Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org 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 )