[Zope] Newbie Question about variables in DTML

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Holten [mailto:donner@biophysics.lanl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 12:56 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Newbie Question about variables in DTML
> 
> 
> 	Hi!  I want to get a value from the database, increment 
> it by one, and 
> store it back into the database.  Is there a way to do this 
> purely in DTML, or 
> do I have to use External Methods?  Thanks!
> 	Donner
> 

What kind of database?  The Zope one?  Strange as this sounds, it would
probably be a better idea to store a hit counterish thingy in a
realtional database, because the Zope database is transactional, and
keep *all* previous versions of objects in the database (this is so you
can 'undo') therefor, if you incriment an object on every hit, your
database will grow a little on every hit.  You can also use an external
method to store hit counts in a file.

-Michel

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