[Zope] Form-Through-Script

[Tom Von Lahndorff]

or maybe you have an "update" page where you remove items and then a  
"confirm" page where you can send to PP?

On Aug 13, 2007, at 5:14 PM, tonylabarbara at aol.com wrote:

> I'm trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear :)
> I have a form where purchasers can deselect items they've added to  
> their shopping cart. All the hidden fields have been numbered  
> according to the items they *originally* selected. If they deselect  
> an item, then it will probably necessitate a renumbering of all  
> those hidden fields, since PayPal doesn't tolerate misnumbering:  
> everything must be numbered "1" for all the hidden fields of the  
> first product, "2" for the second, etc. If the customer selects 5  
> products and deletes the 3rd, then I need to renumber. I wrote a  
> script that can do that. Now, I have to send the form to that  
> script, with all its lovely hidden fields, then reproduce it  
> somewhere so I can send it off to PP. That is, the form must return  
> from the called script to a new page and deliver all the renumbered  
> hidden fields.
> TIA,
> Tony
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Von Lahndorff <tom at modscape.com>
> To: tonylabarbara at aol.com
> Cc: lists at zopyx.com; zope at zope.org
> Sent: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 4:59 pm
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Form-Through-Script
>
> can you describe what you're trying to do a little more clearly?
>
> On Aug 13, 2007, at 4:29 PM, tonylabarbara at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Well it didn't like that, either:
>>
>> Invalid request
>> The parameter, doc, was omitted from the request.
>>
>> again. But look here:
>>
>> <td tal:define="docs here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff">
>> <form action="renumberTheCart(docs)" method="post"  
>> enctype="multipart/form-data">
>> <p metal:use-macro="here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff/macros/main" />
>>
>> See, I have a definition of "docs", but it's not pointing to a  
>> "use-macro" widget. Must be the problem, but how do I do that?
>> TIA,
>> Tony
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Von Lahndorff <tom at modscape.com>
>> To: tonylabarbara at aol.com
>> Cc: lists at zopyx.com; zope at zope.org
>> Sent: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 4:20 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Zope] Form-Through-Script
>>
>>
>> I think you want:
>>
>> <form action="renumberTheCart(here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff)"  
>> method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
>> <td>
>> <form action=http://example.com/s/renumberTheCart" method="post">
>> <input type="hidden" name="doc" value="" tal:attributes="value  
>> here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff" />
>> <p metal:use-macro="here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff/macros/main" />
>> </td>
>>
>> (my tal may be a bit off)
>>
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2007, at 4:09 PM, tonylabarbara at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> No, it should work the way it is...that is a URL I passed. I  
>>> changed it to an absolute URL just to double-check, and got  
>>> basically the same error:
>>>
>>> Invalid request
>>> The parameter, doc, was omitted from the request.
>>>
>>> How do I pass the parameter, which in my case is quite long and  
>>> stashed neatly away in a PT macro?
>>>
>>> <td tal:define="docs here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff">
>>> <form action=http://example.com/s/renumberTheCart?doc=docs"  
>>> method="post">
>>> <p metal:use-macro="here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff/macros/main" />
>>> </td>
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com>
>>> To: tonylabarbara at aol.com; zope at zope.org
>>> Sent: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 3:55 pm
>>> Subject: Re: [Zope] Form-Through-Script
>>>
>>>
>>> --On 13. August 2007 15:39:40 -0400 tonylabarbara at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Hi;
>>> > I have a form that I need to send to a script and then send off  
>>> to a URL
>>> > (PayPal). I need to process it through the script to renumber  
>>> things for
>>> > PP. How do I do this? I imagine I add an element to the PT like  
>>> so:
>>> >
>>> > <form action="renumberTheCart(here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff)"  
>>> method="post">
>>> >
>>> > but I need to pass a parameter "doc", which, of course, is the  
>>> document
>>> > I'm submitting. So I tried this:
>>> >
>>> > <form action="renumberTheCart(here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff)"  
>>> method="post">
>>> > <p metal:use-macro="here/CheckOutAfterEditStuff/macros/main" />
>>>
>>> You might check out the basics about HTML forms first. The  
>>> 'action' parameter is an URL and *not* some Python-like function  
>>> call. You specify the destination URL inside the action attribute  
>>> and pass the parameters as *hidden* form parameters to the URL -  
>>> either using method GET or POST.
>>>
>>> You'll find more on forms in any HTML tutorial. Start from here:
>>>
>>> <http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp>
>>>
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