[Zope] infobar and urls

Joel Burton joel@joelburton.com
Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:31:53 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Paul Erickson wrote:

> Joel Burton wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Jens Grewen wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>use
> >>Link is <a href="/AFolder/">link here</a>
> >>
> >>instead of
> >>
> >>Link is <a href="AFolder/">link here</a>
> >>
> >>
> >>Jens
> >>
> >
> >Assuming your item is in the root folder, of course. ;-)
> >
> >You can also use  <a href="<dtml-var "AFolder.absolute_url()"
> >url_quote>">link here</a>, which will find the correct URL for
> >AFolder and put it in. The nice thing about this is that you can move
> >AFolder around in the hierarchy, but as long as the current method can
> >find it through acquisition, it will work.
> >
> Or yet another variation:
>
> <a href="&dtml.url-AFolder;">link here</a>
>
> Does what Joel's does, except that it is shorter, possibly more easy to
> read.

Err, yeah, but for some reason, I thought that absolute_url() was
safer for certain kinds of objects. Or am I making this up in my memory?

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