[Zope] how to upload text?

[Hannu Krosing]

John Edstrom wrote:
> 
> I want to make a form where a variable can take input either from a
> textarea form element, or from a file upload.  I've seen some things
> about how to upload files, but I don't want to save the data as files, I
> want to load it into a textarea form element where it can be edited if
> needed and then it will be saved in a database.
> 
> Is there an example or a recipe to do this anywhere?

The minimal example (constructed by consulting the source code 
of management frames):

uploader:
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<!--#var standard_html_header-->

<FORM ACTION="editor" METHOD="POST"
      ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
<INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="file:string" SIZE="25" VALUE=""><br>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Add ">
</FORM>

<!--#var standard_html_footer-->
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editor
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<!--#var standard_html_header-->

<FORM ACTION="processor" METHOD="POST">
<TEXTAREA NAME="text" ROWS=7 COLS=65><!--#var file--></TEXTAREA><br>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Add ">
</FORM>

<!--#var standard_html_footer-->
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You upload a file  using 'uploader' to 'editor', then submit 
the contents to 'processor' (not shown, do whatever you want ;) 
after editing.

The :string at end of file:string forces it to string of file contents,
you still need the form encoding type of "multipart/form-data" for file 
uploads to work

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Hannu Krosing