[Zope] Creating links dynamically

[John Poltorak]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 06:23:11PM +0300, Vital Lobachevsky wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:
> > I want to provide a set of links on a Zope site dynamically. ie don't want 
> > to hard code a number of links, but would like to load them from an 
> > external source which I can add to independently, but I have no idea as to 
> > how to set about it. 
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > I'd be quite happy to have the links in a text file with one link per 
> > line.
> 
> 1) Create a script that returns a list of links:
> 
> ## Script (Python) "linkList"
> 
> return [
>    'link1',
>    ...
>    'linkN'
> ]
> 
> 2) Use this script on your page. For example,
> 
> <tal:block repeat="link here/linkList">
>    <span tal:replace="structure link" />
> </tal:block>

Many thanks for your suggestion.

Is there a worked example of doing this anywhere?

There seem to be quite a few steps involved in trying to get this working 
and I'm no expert in writing python scripts, and it will probably take me 
a couple of days to get this working.


-- 
John