[Zope] ZSQL and DTML question

[Mitch Pirtle]

Thanks for the quick response.  This doesn't solve my problem, though.=20
Where do you conditionally put the HTML for the table (that does not
belong in the loop)?

So (for example) I really want to:

if(query returned results)
	print <table>, header row once, not in loop
	*** NOW loop on the query results for each <TR> ***
	print </table> once, not in loop
else
	print "<p>Sucks to be you, homey.</p>\n" // NO TABLE
endif

I am not into doing this as a python script, and then passing every
query to it for HTML formatting - each row may have arbitrary links
added based on either the query or calling method, so it cannot be
reused as a generic object.

Or am I approaching it the wrong way?



On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 09:58, Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi.=20
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> Thats easy in Zope too (not to say "its easier" ...):
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> <dtml-in myZSQLQuery>
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>  here state your result
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> <dtml-else>
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>     Sorry, no data returned
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> </dtml-in>
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> Watch out you "Help!" link in the Zope Management Interface,
> where the DTML Reference for "dtml-in" gives you a lot of=20
> answers ...
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> Greetings
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> Christian
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> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:44:43AM +0100, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
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> > I cannot figure out how to do something the Zope way(TM).  Basically,
> > PHP lets you call a query and act on it conditionally, e.g. "if the
> > query returns data do A, if not then do B".  How is this done best
> > within Zope?
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> > For example, I got really used to returning a recordset (query) as an
> > HTML table.  But only IF the recordset returned more than 0 rows.  If
> > the query had an empty result, then I would instead print "<p>No record=
s
> > found.</p>" or something like that.
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> > I know there's a better and easier way in Zope, I just don't know how
> > -;^>=3D  Can someone kindly point me in the right direction?
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> reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,[chr(ord(x)^42) for x in 'zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b'])
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Mitch Pirtle
Corporate Security Officer
K=FChne & Nagel Management AG
Tel: +41 1 786 96 45
Fax: +41 1 786 95 95