[Zope-dev] Object to string

[Jason Spisak]

Pavlos:

I had forgotten about the recent addition of the counter object to our
arsenal of Zopeist tools. Shame on me.  Thanks for the heads-up!

Jason Spisak
webmaster@mtear.com

> 
> 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

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Jason Spisak
webmaster@mtear.com