[Zope] Saving a Rendered DTML Document

[Asad Habib]

Thanks for your help. I will try this and let you know if it works.

- Asad


On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jonathan wrote:

> if you want to create an html file on the file system (which is a rendered 
> version of a dtml method), you could use something like wget 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html).  Give wget the url to the dtml 
> method and it will create an html file on the filesystem (which you can then 
> access via your php routines). You could even create an external method which 
> invokes wget - you could then call this external method from the same routine 
> which creates/modifies your dtml method, so that the html file on the file 
> system stays in sync with the dtml method.
>
> hth
>
> Jonathan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asad Habib" <ahabib at engin.umich.edu>
> To: "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <jamie at textmatters.com>
> Cc: <zope at zope.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Saving a Rendered DTML Document
>
>
>> Hello. The PHP script that I use relies on a path to locate the HTML file 
>> on the file system and since the DTML document is a Zope object, it does 
>> not have access to that. I also tried using a Zope File object as well as a 
>> DTML document that is part of a Local File System. Using a Zope File object 
>> does not work since the ouput of a rendered DTML document is text and 
>> providing the PHP script a Zope File filled with plain text does not work. 
>> The same goes for a DTML document that is part of a Local File System, once 
>> the document is rendered it is plain text.
>> 
>> - Asad
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>> 
>>> Asad Habib wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello. I have a DTML document which contains some DTML, but mostly HTML. 
>>>> I
>>>> want to save the HTML contents of this DTML document once it is rendered 
>>>> by Zope (i.e. once the DTML is evaluated) in another DTML document (i.e. 
>>>> this document will only contain HTML offcourse and must be since it will 
>>>> be used by a PHP script). Is there a way to do this so every time the 
>>>> former changes, the latter is updated as well? Any help would be 
>>>> appreciated. Thanks.
>>> 
>>> How does the PHP read the file? Why can't PHP read the file through the 
>>> web, where it will be rendered.
>>> 
>>> Robert Munro
>>> 
>>> Ps. ZPT is a replacement for DTML, and is no help with your problem.
>>> 
>>> 
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