[Zope] Newbie type questions about the REQUEST object

[Jens Vagelpohl]

any REQUEST object is only valid for a single website request. any 
following website request will generate a new REQUEST. to make data 
available to more than one request you should read up on the following:

- cookies
- sessions

jens


On Sunday, August 4, 2002, at 11:09 , Russell Hires wrote:

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> Hello,
> These are very simple questions, for my simple brain. ;-)
>
> I've been playing with the REQUEST object, and I see that I can set a use 
> the
> mysterious REQUEST.set as so:
> <dtml-var "REQUEST.set('test2', 'test_Value')">
> and put its value back out to the world like this:
> this is the request value: <dtml-var test2>
>
> My current question is how to get the value to "stick" as it were, so 
> that I
> can come back and get it later. As it is above the value is only available
> for the current page (which, in this case, is the action part of a form 
> from
> another dtml method). How do I use it in other pages/methods?
>
> I've read the Zope book about creating a guestbook, but I want to break it
> down to its simplest form so that I can understand how to keep the value 
> once
> it's in there. For instance, I've gone through the Job Board Tutorial, and
> see that there is a relationship between the Class/Product, and the
> REQUEST.set syntax, the only difference being that the second item doesn'
> t
> have single quotes around it. I tried to take the quotes off, but I get an
> error about that value not being available...
>
> Thanks for helping me understand this!
>
> Russell
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