PS: my example assumes you _only_ want passed arguments to be usable to the DTML method you are calling - if you want to pass parameters And get the default namespace, you have to pass it ('_') also. My util methods that use params Only use those params (I try to keep a clean interface) - but yours might not... >-----Original Message----- >From: Jon Franz >Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:07 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Passing arguments to DTML Methods > > >This is an undocumented (afaik) feature of DTML methods/documents - due to the way python >argument mapping works, you can pass any value into a 'local' variable in a DTML method like thus: > ><dtml-var "myDTMLmethod(foo=5,greg=Sally)"> > >this the above case, Sally could be a legal variable value that will be put into the new local greg >in your DTML method, and one named foo with the value of 5. AFAIK this is pass-by-value, so modifying greg in your called method >will not change sally, but I could be wrong... >I use this sort of thing quite often in one of my ongoing projects where I need to reformat >dates strings from their mysql format to how the client wants to view them... I have a method named >undb_dateout that uses a variable called 'dbdate' and does some string splitting and formatting to output it. >Originally, I would do things like this with the method: > ><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('dbdate', currentdatevar)"> ><dtml-var undb_dateout> > >Then, on a whim I changed this to: ><dtml-var "undb_dateout(dbdate=currentdatevar)"> > >And it worked... >Someone should add this to the DTML documentation, or at least make it stand out more - it is VERY >useful... If no one else does I'll write-up a how-to on it. > >>>> >>Message: 7 >>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:13:59 +0000 (GMT) >>From: Espen Sorbye Frederiksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [Zope-dev] Passing arguments to DTML Methods <<SNIP>> >>Espen _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )