cesare@planningsrl.it wrote:

Can someone tell me how can I have a form in which the user can insert wordS and I return the list of records (on db) that contain in a certain field one of those words.

There are two separate but related issues here: 1. Choosing how to return the words from the form Most of the time, you will want your form to return the words as a list of strings, and there are several ways to do this. You can use a textarea named 'words:lines', an input field named 'words:tokens', or multiple input fields all named 'words:list'. 2. Choosing how to query the database Once you have this list in Zope, you'll want to construct your query. I get the idea that you want to produce something like "(f containing 'cats') or (f containing 'dogs')" in your WHERE clause. Try this: WHERE <dtml-in words> (fieldname containing <dtml-sqlvar sequence-item type=string>) <dtml-unless sequence-end> or </dtml-unless> </dtml-in> One last issue to consider is that if your SQL parameter is just 'words', the form will work fine but the test page will fail. Make your parameter 'words:tokens' so that the Test input page is doing the same thing as your form (use ':tokens' even if you used ':lines' or ':list' or your form; the Test input page isn't smart enough to provide a textarea or multiple input fields). Cheers, Evan @ 4-am (and soon digicool)