[Zope] Newbie or beyond me?

[Chris McDonough]

You can do something like this:

The following REQUEST.set's are only necessary to have some placeholder
variables, you'd probably get the values from somewhere else, maybe a
property on a folder, or a form value, or a SQL field, whatever.

<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('v1', 'Members')"> # equivalent to Python's
"v1 = 'Members'"
<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('v2', 'ZQR')"> # equivalent to Python's "v2
= 'ZQR'"

<A HREF="http://www.zope.org/<dtml-var v1>/<dtml-var v2>">

to make it look a little nicer, you can also use DTML "entity syntax":

<A HREF="http://www.zope.org/&dtml-v1;/&dtml-v2;">

You could even do something like this:

<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('myURL', 'http://www.zope.org/%s/%s' % (v1,
v2))">
<dtml-var myURL>

Jatwood@bwanazulia.com wrote:
> 
> Here is the question (after a few too many hours of messing with this)
> 
> I am trying to figure out the best way to populate links with
> variables. In raw python I would just declare the links like
> 
> link =  "<a href="http://www.somewhere.com/cgi/%(v1)s/somthingelse/%(v2)s "
> 
> and populate the link with tuples  when I was going to use it.
> 
> link % variable
> 
> For the life of me I can't figure out how to do this in Zope. Any
> help would be great.
> 
> I am sure this is easy but I am at a complete loss.
> 
> Thanks,
> JMA
> 
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