[Zope] Help with ZPT and dynamic javascript

Stephen Nesbitt snesbitt at cobaltgroup.com
Wed Aug 11 20:40:03 EDT 2004


All:

Here's my design problem - I have a form with two drop down menus. 
The values of the second drop down depend on what the user selected 
in the first. The values of both fields are dynamic - pulled from a 
database when the form is published.

I am trying to figure out how to enable this using Page Templates. 
My thoughts are:
1) use tal:replace to generate the script element and its contents - 
this doesn't seem to work with Zope ignoring everything within the 
script tags.

2) use a python script and tal:replace to generate the script 
element. This isn't working either - my suspicion is that the page 
never processes the created script element.

3) call the database directly with javascript. I have no idea how to 
do this or if it can be done and I really don't want to do it this 
way.

4)  ??

What simple clue am I missing? T
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Stephen Nesbitt
Senior Configuration Management Engineer
The Cobalt Group
206.219.8271
snesbitt at cobaltgroup.com


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