Re: [Zope] easier way with zpt

[Bernd Dorn]

On 20.09.2006, at 02:24, David Bear wrote:


I wanted to randomly pick a an image from an images folder and insert
it into my page. So I created a python script the return a random
selection from the images folder.

Then, in my zpt I did


  


Later in in the  tag I wanted to to do



however I found that slot1 was not giving me the full path to the
images folder. So I went back and did this:


  
  




tal:attributes="src slot1/absolute_url"





in order to get the object to have the full url.

It just seems there should be a better way. Anyone have a suggestion?

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Re: [Zope] easier way with zpt

[Andrew Milton]

+---[ David Bear ]--
| I wanted to randomly pick a an image from an images folder and insert
| it into my page. So I created a python script the return a random
| selection from the images folder. 
| 
| Then, in my zpt I did
| 
|  
|   
| 
| 
| Later in in the  tag I wanted to to do
| 
| 
| 
| however I found that slot1 was not giving me the full path to the
| images folder. So I went back and did this:

[snip]

| It just seems there should be a better way. Anyone have a suggestion?

Get your getimageR1 script to return randomImage.absolute_url(), instead of
the image itself?

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