Myles Byrne wrote:

I'm trying to add a statement to my page that greets each user with a different statement, but i can't seem to work out how to do it.

Just from reading some of the zope documentation i've tried:

<dtml-if expr="AUTHENTICATED_USER = bob"> bob likes to eat fish </dtml-if>

and

<dtml-if expr="str(GetUser()) = bob"> bob likes to eat fish </dtml-if>

Both of these are obviously very wrong, in the first case i thought it might have something to do with calling an object and trying to compare it to a string so in the second one i tried rendering it into a string, but evedently this isn't the correct way to do that. I'm new to both zope and python and I have a feeling I have the whole thing totally wrong.

Would it be better to do this in python some how and store each users greeting in a dtml document?

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Hi, Myles Equality-testing in python uses "==", not " =". Easy mistake. -- Jim Washington

* Myles Byrne <wisemanb@ihug.com.au> [011024 12:20]:

I'm trying to add a statement to my page that greets each user with a different statement, but i can't seem to work out how to do it.

<dtml-if expr="AUTHENTICATED_USER = bob"> bob likes to eat fish </dtml-if>

Two points to note: 1) Wrong operator. = is an assignment operator (a=3 means 'assign the value 3 to the variable a). you want ==, which tests equality. 2) you're comparing a string, 'bob' to a non-existent variable, bob. when you're inside quotes, you're in python. "bob" therefore refers to a variable by the name of bob. AUTHENTICATED_USER is a string (in this case, 'bob'), not a variable. You want

<dtml-if expr="AUTHENTICATED_USER == 'bob'"> bob likes to eat fish </dtml-if>

hth seb