[Zope] ANN: Tutorial for Zope Page Templates

[Evan Simpson]

Jim Penny wrote:

 > It would be really useful to have an example of using a very simple
 > ZSQL method.
 >
 > Say your underlying database people was name:text, user:int
 >
 > and you had ZSQL method sql_select (no parameters) select * from
 > people order by age

<table>
   <tr><th>Name</th><th>Age</th></tr>
   <tr tal:repeat="person here/sql_select">
     <td tal:content="person/name">Fred</td>
     <td tal:content="person/age">21</td>
   </tr>
</table>

 > Also can you trigger sideffects from TAL?  For example, can you
 > trigger the usual CRUD statements?

I'm not sure what you mean.  You can call anything you like from an 
expression, and if it has side-effects, they'll trigger.

Cheers,

Evan @ digicool