[Zope] Creating links dynamically

Wed Jun 1 10:45:18 EDT 2005

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:17:46PM +0300, Vital Lobachevsky wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 06:23:11PM +0300, Vital Lobachevsky wrote:
> > 
> >>John Poltorak wrote:
> >>
> >>>I want to provide a set of links on a Zope site dynamically. ie don't want 
> >>>to hard code a number of links, but would like to load them from an 
> >>>external source which I can add to independently, but I have no idea as to 
> >>>how to set about it. 
> >>>
> >>>Any ideas?

> Well, it's really easy. Create 'linkList' (Python Script) in the folder 
> where you page lives or somewhere higher in folder hierarchy:
> 
> ## Script (Python) "linkList"
> return [
>    ('http://www.google.com/', 'Google'),
>    ('http://www.yahoo.com/', 'Yahoo'),
> ]
>
> If your page is Page Template, it maybe something like this
> 
> <html>
> <body>
> <h1>Search Engines</h1>
> <tal:block repeat="item here/linkList">
>    <a tal:content="python:item[1]"
>       tal:attributes="href python:item[0]"></a><br />
> </tal:block>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> If you page is DTML Method, you can do the same using <dtml-in> tag.
> 

How would I extend this so that the Python script could read data from an 
independently maintained text file which could uploaded periodically?

ie using a file containing something like:-  

http://www.google.com/,Google
http://www.yahoo.com/,Yahoo

-- 
John