[ZPT] Content/Presentation Separation

[Godefroid Chapelle]

At 19:44 23/04/2002, Grant Thibdeau wrote:
>This should be a zpt question because it ultimately ends up in the zpt. If=
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>it's not my apologies.  I have my page template, which calls a python=20
>script.  This python script gets some data and then formats it. Now, I can=
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>then put a big print statement in my script to output all that information=
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>like so:
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>print "Quantity Special: Each box is only %s a box!" % (resRebatePrice)
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>return printed
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>Now, from what I can tell that is kind of wrong, because i'm not really=20
>separating my content from my presentation.  Or would this be acceptable=20
>separation?  I'm assuming I would want to access a formatted=20
>resRebatePrice inside of a ZPT, but how would I get a hold of it inside=20
>the zpt?  Define the script call then access it like=20
>tal:content=3D"PythonScript/resRebatePrice" ?
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>Thanks

I am not sure this will help but I think that the architecture that should=
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be used with ZPT is really different from DTML.
Really often people begin with ZPT and then try to access and or manipulate=
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data through the call of python scripts from ZPT.

I think that it should work exactly the way around :
URL traversal should arrive on a Python script which access data and=20
prepares it before passing it to a Page template.

example updateRecordForm

# initialize

request =3D context.REQUEST

# prepare data

records =3D context.storage.SQL_primaryKeySelect(request)
if request.has_key('errorMap'):
   errorMap =3D request.errorMap
else:
   errorMap =3D {}


# pass data and return template

return context.PT_updateRecordForm(record=3Drecords[0], errorMap=3DerrorMap)


my 2 =80 cents
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