dear Andreas make my question short. I have a string object 'name' and it is a name of an exsiting folder is there a method that uses 'name'(a str object) as an argument to call upon this folder?
----- Original Message ---- From: Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Allen Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Zope <zope@zope.org> Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2007 10:20:16 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] saving/creating an object to an exsisting folderish object --On 6. Januar 2007 06:17:40 -0800 Allen Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a problem a got a lot and I never able to seem to solve it. > I want save or create a object to a specific folder or other folderish > object, I ask the user for the id of that folder or folderish > object I store the id name in a variable 'name' > > the problem is I know the type of the folder or folderish object but > 'name' is a str object and I can't use command like name.manage_addFile(). > The server just tells me that name is a str which contains no function > manage_addFile(). > > I always end up doing a > <dtml-in "objectValues(['Folder'])"> > <dtml-if "getId() == name"> > do something.... > </dtml-if> > </dtml-in> > > Please take the advice and learn Python. Such logic should be implemented in Python and *not* in DTML. DTML/ZPT are for presentation *only*, not for implementing business logic. -aj __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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