[Zope-dev] Newbie: manage_add DTML access to product variables

[Jens Vagelpohl]

did you look at the LDAPUserFolder?

jens


On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 05:46 , John Hall wrote:

>
> I'm fairly new to Zope and Python, so please forgive me if this is a
> stupid question.  I'm trying to add a new exUserFolder authentication
> plugin using LDAP.  I've copied the Radius plugin for the most part
> and have almost everything working except I wanted to have a list
> of possible methods (ways of using the LDAP database to authenticate
> a user) that the Zope Admin chooses from on the manage_add DTML page.
>
> I can't figure out how to keep the list in the python code for the
> object where it would be easy to update when I add new methods, but
> still access the list in my manage_add DTML page in a <dtml-in> loop.
> When the manage_add DTML is rendered, my object does not yet exist
> (the admin's response to the manage_add page is passed to a python
> function that actually creates the object).
>
> I have two questions, then.
>
> 1.  How do I format an object to use in a <dtml-in> loop?  (I'm thinking
>     it needs to be a list of dict's).
>
> 2.  How do I access a function or variable in a Product's python code
>     directly from DTML (or how do I add a callable method in Zope's DTML
>     namespace from a Product's python code?)  I think my major problem
>     here is lack of understanding of how Products are accesible within
>     the DTML namespace.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> JMH
>
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