[Zope] Zope and Data Entry

[Phil Harris]

Why not just do it with JavaScript?

Something like

<select name='animal1'>
<option value='12'>Cat
<option value='24'>Dog
<option value='31'>Elephant
</select>

When you return the form to Zope the numbers in the 'value' will be used
rather than the textual ones so if the user picked Dog the form would return
24.

HTH

Phil
phil.harris@zope.co.uk


----- Original Message -----
From: <darryl@igor.penguinpowered.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: [Zope] Zope and Data Entry


> I am designing a site which will be used for a lot of data entry. I have
> zope 2.1.2 and mysql talking nicely. Now my problem is design.
>
> I want the user to be able to fill in a form using some HTML select
> fields, these fields should then be translated into their respective item
> IDs for input into my table. So even though the user chooses:
>
>  cat dog mouse
>
> the sql final method should be:
>
>  insert into table animals (cID, dID, mID) values (12, 14, 18)
>
> In a CGI, I would use a python dictionary or perl hash to translate the
> keys into their values before makeing. But I'm a little stumped with zope?
> Should I handle this with an external method or can I do it with straight
> sql methods and built-ins?
>
>
>
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