[Zope-dev] Object to string

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jason Spisak wrote:

> Oh, to follow up on my last post about turning an object to a string
> without leaving DTML, I have tried:
> 
> <!--#var "str(_['ZopeTime'])"-->
> <!--#var "str(ZopeTime)"-->
> 
> All help welcome!

<!--# var "_.str(ZopeTime())"--> will return a string representation of
the object. 

Alternatively you can generate unique object ids by adding a counter
property to your containing folder (or root folder) and modify it
everytime you generate a new object. For instance::

<!--# call "manage_addFolder(unique_id,unique_id,0,0,REQUEST)"-->
<!--# call "manage_changeProperties(counter=counter+1)"-->
<!--# call 
"manage_changeProperties(unique_id='MyFolder'+_.str(counter))"-->

Pavlos