[Zope] newbie-DTML passing url in query-string ?

[Kevin Dangoor]

-----Original Message-----
From: Geir B Hansen <geirh@funcom.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: [Zope] newbie-DTML passing url in query-string ?


>i have been trying to pass an url in a query-string to a method, like
>this :
>my.zopesite.com/function?qs="url to be sent"
>- which works ok
>
>the problem is that when i tell the function to render the url, it
>intreprets it is a string.
>If my function looks like this :
>
><!--#var standard_html_header-->
><dtml-var qs>
><!--#var standard_html_footer-->

I believe what you're trying to do is this:

<dtml-var "_[qs]">

This will do a namespace lookup on the value of qs. So, if qs is an id that
is available in the namespace, this will render that object.

Kevin