Dennis, try: <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName() == 'Anonymous User'"> Guest <dtml-else> <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> </dtml-if> Zope is 'celver' enough to realise that you must mean the username when you do: <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> but 'stupid' enough not to realise when you do: <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER=='Anonymous User'"> Basic rule of thumb is that anythin in quotes is Python, and since AU is an object, it must be treated as such. btw, if you haven't yet got the Zope Quick Reference, get it now! you still here, what you waiting for! - go get it now! 8¬) http://zdp.zope.org hth Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Nichols" <nichols@tradingconnections.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: [Zope] AUTHENTICATED_USER (or something) making me crazy

If I inspect REQUEST by inserting a <dtml-var REQUEST> in my dtml I can see that AUTHENTICATED_USER is set to Anonymous User. Yet when I insert the following code, it never displays Guest. It takes the else branch and then, perversely, displays Anonymous User. Please point out my stupid mistake.

<dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER=='Anonymous User'"> Guest <dtml-else> <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> </dtml-if>

Thanks. Maybe I shouldn't work on Saturdays. Zope 2.2.2 roughly, Python 1.5.2, RH 6.2

-- Dennis Nichols nichols@tradingconnections.com

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Dennis, You might benefit from reading some of the general HOWTO's at http://www.zope.org. Consider searching for "AUTHENTICATED_USER" or "user manager". A quick answer to your problem though: AUTHENTICATED_USER is actually a class object (meaning it contains variables of it's own, as well as functions). To _properly_ access the data in the AUTHENTICATED_USER, you need to call upon the methods (functions) that perform the task you want. In this case, you want to compare the current user to some other value. In that case, you want to call the getUserName method of AUTHENTICATED_USER. Your code modified to work would be: <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()=='Anonymous User'"> Guest <dtml-else> <dtml-var "AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()"> </dtml-if> Regards, Knight knight@phunc.com On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Dennis Nichols wrote:

If I inspect REQUEST by inserting a <dtml-var REQUEST> in my dtml I can see that AUTHENTICATED_USER is set to Anonymous User. Yet when I insert the following code, it never displays Guest. It takes the else branch and then, perversely, displays Anonymous User. Please point out my stupid mistake.

<dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER=='Anonymous User'"> Guest <dtml-else> <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> </dtml-if>

Thanks. Maybe I shouldn't work on Saturdays. Zope 2.2.2 roughly, Python 1.5.2, RH 6.2

-- Dennis Nichols nichols@tradingconnections.com

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