[Zope] Character Swapping / Mapping

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 Jatwood@bwanazulia.com wrote:

> 
> I have an URL coming out of a database like "http://www.myplace.com" 
> and need to pass it to another website but they want it in the format 
> of  "http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyplace%2Ecom". Is there a simple method to 
> do this with or some sort of VAR tag? If not, what is the find and 
> replace tag?

<dtml-var <variable holding URL> fmt=url-quote> will do most of what you
want. It won't
convert the dots though.

Alternatively you can use the _.string module. For instance you can have
DTMLMethod with id test like:

<dtml-return "_.string.replace(url,'.','%2E')">

and call it from DTML or directly:

http://<spamaddress>/test?url=http://www.myplace.com

it will return

http://www%2Emyplace%2Ecom

Add a few more replace to convert all the characters you want.

Pavlos