[Zope] Zope from a php perspective

[Tom Jenkins]

Howdy,

Yes, you can call another object outside your "tree".  Example:
lets say you have 
/folder1/folder1a/item1
and
/folder2/item2

and you want to access item2 from item1 in dtml you need to put item2
into the context:
<dtml-with "folder2.item2">
<p> 
This puts  item2 from folder2 into context... any dtml-var calls will
first be applied to item2
until the closing with tag
</p>
title of item2 = <dtml-var title>
</dtml-with>


with the "folder2.item2" Zope starts walking up the tree until it finds
folder2 then walks down to find item2

hope this helps

Tom



"Vincent Stoessel" wrote:
>  
>  Hello All,
>  I have starting testing Zope as a potential
>  CMS for some production websites. I think I understand the
>  basic of to create and edit pages in the Zope system.
>  I haver a few questions for those more experieced with
>  this system. I am very familiar with php so I need someone
>  to translate these concepts for me.
>  
>  
>  include_path : I understand that you can automatically
>  include objects into pages by referencing their id, I also
understand
>  that Zope automatically searches up the parent chain till it finds a

>  matching object. But what if I want to include something outside of
the
>  tree? or just wanted a central repositories of object that I wanted
to
>  be able access from anywhere.
>  
>  i.e
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  cars  		colors
>  | 
>  	|
>  ford 
>  	 red
>  |
>  toyota
>  
>  if cars and colors are on seperate branches, how an I
>  "cross" the brnches to access objects.
>  

Tom Jenkins
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