[Zope] Zope Questions

[Chris McDonough]

Hi George,

The answer is that it depends on what kind of object intercepts the GET 
request.  If it's a DTML Method, you can just say:

<dtml-var a>

or if you want to use it as an argument to a function:

<dtml-call "somefunction(a)">

If it's a Python Script, you need to do a bit more work:

a = context.REQUEST.get('a')
somefunction(a)

If it's a Page Template.. it goes something like:

<div tal:replace="request/a">The value of the "a" variable from the 
request</div>

More information about all of this is available primarily in the Zope 
Book at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/ .

HTH,

- C


George M. Ellenburg wrote:
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> Greets.
> 
> I'm (slowly) learning Zope, and loving every bit of it, but have run into a 
> few snags.  I'm quite comfortable with PHP, which I know is the source of a 
> lot of my problems as Zope and PHP are two entirely different paradigms.
> 
> There's just so much information on the Zope website, that I'm having a 
> difficult time finding the answers to certain problems, which unfortunately 
> have left me in somewhat of a quagmire.
> 
> Can someone point me to the location where I might find more information on 
> the following, with regards to Zope:
> 
>  - Variable Passing through GET request
> 
> Here's what I'm trying to do:
> 	I'm trying to create a "tool-tip" (which is actually contained in a frame) 
> and would like to pass a parameter to the DTML document which contains the 
> HTML, etc. for the tool-tip.
> 	Something like:
> 	<a href="show_tip?a=b&amp;c=d">
> 	Q: Is there a magical Zope variable that contains the arguments passed on a 
> GET URI (as in PHP?)
> 	Q: Must any variable be declared first?
> 
>  - "case" statement
> 	Q: Does there exist the equivalent of a shell "case" statement in Zope?
> 	(This is in line with my previous questions).
> 
> Thanks in advance.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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