[Zope] Using a generated image map

Peter Bengtsson mail@peterbe.com
Tue, 27 May 2003 14:00:20 +0100


At 08:52 2003-05-27 +0200, Yves Bastide wrote:
>Peter Bengtsson wrote:
>>At 15:49 2003-05-26 +0200, Yves Bastide wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've got a script which generates both an image and an image map.  How 
>>>to  use them from a ZPT?  (The problem: the image must be passed "by 
>>>reference", and the map "by value")
>>
>>Do it the easy way:
>><h3> My imagemap </h3>
>><img tal:replace="structure here/getMyImage" />
>><p tal:replace="structure here/getMyImageMap" > Here goes the imagemap 
>>html stuff</p>
>>Using the power of ZPT for these kinds of small things is overhead.
>
>The problem is that the image and the map are generated by one quite 
>costly script (with database accesses and such)...

The problem isn't with ZPT. I showed you how to access them, not how to 
store or generate them.
ZPT's just stich together certain elements and generates a HTML output.

So what's the problem?

Peter