Hi Asad, Asad Habib wrote:

Is the word "students" a reserved word in Zope? Apparently, I named a list "students" and then tried to populate it with the result set of a query. This variable was never populated and Zope did not generate an error. Also, I tested my query independently through phpMyAdmin and the Z SQL interface and it passed. When I changed the name of this variable from "students" to "studentNames", everything worked. Also, this is the only variable named "students" in my application. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks. Are you working with DTML and ZClasses? If so, It could be that a variable on a dtml method is being adquired from a ZClass or from other place. I had some similar problem and solve it just like you, renaming the variable . If I'm not wrong, a way to avoid this is restricting the name space on a dtml-with tag:

<dtml-with blah only> do something </dtml-with> If you use python products and ZPT, you will hardly have this problem because you have to specify the object that contains the variable. That's a reason why people here recommends not to use dtml: you have to be careful about the name scope of your variables Regards, Josef