Giampiero, You can easily do that. Take a look at this code. It is a DTML Method, tableCount_html which displays a page that allows a user to select a table name from a select list in a form. The options are retrieved from a data base before the page is displayed: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <form action="tableInstances" method="get"> <h2 align="center"><dtml-var document_title></h2> <hr> <p><font size="+1">Enter query parameters:</font></p> <table> <tr><th>Entity name</th> <td><SELECT NAME="entity_name" SIZE=1> <dtml-in getTableNames> <OPTION><dtml-var table_def_nm null=""></OPTION> </dtml-in> </SELECT> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 align=center> <input type="SUBMIT" name="SUBMIT" value="Submit Query"> </td></tr> </table> </form> <p> </p> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> Here is the code for getTableNames, a Z SQL Method that uses the ODBC interface to query an Oracle database for the possible list of tables to select from: select table_def_nm from table_def order by 1 As you can see, when someone references tableCount_html the getTableNames method is called without the user pressing any buttons. Dan Schenck POSC Houston, TX

** Original Subject: [Zope] SQL Queries ** Original Sender: Giampiero Raffaini <giampiero@btinternet.com> ** Original Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:04:53 GMT

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16/01/2000 13:59:55 Hello there, I am new to zope and i find it great. I am still learning it and I have a few questions, but one

in particular;

I used Coldfusion before and I was able to do this: I had a db with movies, with Title,director,year and so on. I could run a query looking for Tilte and ID and then output the result on a line and make each of the Titles a dynamically generated link (something like <a href="newpage.cfm?#ID#>#Title#</a> if you know what I mean). Now my question is: is it possible in Zope to run SQL queries without the need to actually click on a Submit button? Cheers

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