[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Advanced Page Templates
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Zope Page Templates don't work particularly well with the
form/action pattern since it assumes that input processing and
response presentation are handled by the same object (the
action). Instead of the form/action pattern you should use
form/action/response pattern with Page Templates. The form and
response should be Page Templates and the action should be a
script. The form template gathers the input and calls the action
script. The action script should process the input and return a
response template. This pattern is more flexible than the
form/action pattern since it allows the script to return any of
a number of different response objects.
% Anonymous User - Sep. 25, 2002 8:53 pm:
A decent DTML user also does form/action/response, DTML newbies are mislead.
But for really small computations a separate script seems overkill.
% Anonymous User - Dec. 3, 2002 1:04 pm:
This section is almost ridiculously bad. I don't want to use DTML for all the goos reasons I want to use ZPT!
So why not give me a completely worked example????? The slangy language about sloppiness and lameness is just
icing on the cake.