[Zope3-Users] Small skinning question...

[Bernd Dorn]

On 10.05.2007, at 12:14, Thierry Florac wrote:

>
>   Hi,
>
> I'm building a new application with Zope3.
> In this application, I can use several skins :
>  - for all "back-office" and management pages, a single skin is used ;
> it's defined via an Apache rewrite rule on a specific virtual host
>  - for front-office pages, the applied skin can be chosen by each
> "subsite" administrator between a set of skins made available to him.
>
> My idea is to use the "IBeforeTraverseEvent" on the "site" container,
> and to apply the selected skin when I'm on a front-office page.
> So my question is simple : can I know easilly (without hardcoding
> virtual hosts, in fact) if I'm on a back-office page or not and, in
> fact, if a specific skin has already been applied ?

hm, one solution would be to store the skin name chosen in the  
session, and then look it up or set it in the traverser

to look if a skin is applied you just have to test if the request  
implements your layer

if IMyLayerInterface.providedBy(request)

regards, bernd



>
> Thanks for any help,
>
>   Thierry Florac
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