[Zope] Checkboxes/SQL data type problem

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Dieter Maurer]

> You know that all parameters passed from an HTML form are strings
> in the first place. Thus, what looks like a list of integers is
> probably a single string that just looks like a list.
>

No, it really is a list.  You can use it in a dtml-in, for example.  It is a
list even if you don't use the ":list" syntax, as long as you have more than
one input element with the same name.

I just tried this to confirm my memory, and the following worked:

In the form:

  <input name='p3' value='p3-1'><br>
  <input name='p3' value='p3-2'><br>

In the dtml file that the form calls (i.e., the action attribute of the
form):

   <dtml-in p3>
     &dtml-sequence-item;<br>
   </dtml-in>

The result:

p3-1
p3-2

You can also call a Python script with REQUEST as a parameter and use
REQUEST.p3 as a list.

Cheers,

Tom P