On 8/1/05, J Cameron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Bear wrote: > > I am looking at a couple way of producing a qotd solution. > > > > one way is to put quotes in a folder. Then use objectvalues on the > > folder and randomly select one of the items. I get get the objectid. > > but I don't know what I use to get the 'content' of the object.. what > > is the method to get the 'rendered' and unrendered content of an > > object. > > > > In this case I'm using objects of type file (setting content type to > > text/plain) (ofcourse the content is plain text) > > > > I may find the using a zpt, html, or stx object will work better. I'm > > hoping there is a method to get either a rendered view of the file, > > (if zope knows how to render it) or unrendered, and I'll worry about > > rendering it elsewhere. > > The contents of a File object can be gotten at simply by calling it. You
sorry to be dense here. Its been a long time since I read the zope book. I have the following code: ============= from Products.PythonScripts.standard import html_quote import random request = container.REQUEST RESPONSE = request.RESPONSE # Return a string identifying this script. q = container.quotes.objectIds() print random.choice(q)() return printed ============= But this returns an TypeError, str is not callable. How do I get this code to return a random object from the quotes container? > can also get at the underlying data with the 'data' attribute, which is > useful if the contents are large (since it provides a 'Pdata' object > rather than a string.) This is just as it says in > http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AppendixB.stx > > Other object types, like those that have to do rendering, you can just > call for the rendered content. Methods 'document_src' or 'read' will > usually work for the source. > > --jcc > -- > "Building Websites with Plone" > http://plonebook.packtpub.com > -- David Bear What's the difference between private knowledge and public knowledge? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
