Jim Vine wrote: > How does one go about generating > a search form that accepts a few criteria, and has a > "submit" button, that would then go off and fetches > the results? >
Another way of doing this rather than manually building the form, submitting values and fetching them using self.request.get() could be defining a schema interface for your search filter page (the interface containing your search filter attributes). You do not define it as a content type as you search page is not a persistent object. Then in your browser.zcml you register it as an addform something like: <browser:addform schema=<your search filter interface> name=dummysearch.html template=dummysearch.pt class=<Add View class where you perform your search> > In your view class I think you override AddView class update() method where after you do data = getWidgetsData(self, <search form interface>) your form fields should be available in the data dictionary. Not sure if this would be the recommended way of collecting non-persistent form input but I feel that just by handcoding form html and fetching input using self.request.get you lose some of the nice things of zope3 like automatic form generation and validation which I think you would want to use even for non-persistent input like search forms. I haven't had a look at the upcoming formlib but maybe it makes this sort of stuff even easier. Alen _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
