[ZDP] RFD: "Zope Snippets"

Tom Deprez tom.deprez@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:25:06 +0100


>I was just looking around, and I can't see anything on the Zope
>site for storing those little snippets of code that are just a little
>big for a tip, but a lot smaller than a how-to. Something like:
>
>    If you hijack a form (e.g. to gather auth info) you can
>    pass through the values that were passed using the following:
>
>    <form action="blah">
>    <!-- blah   blah    blah...  -->
>
>    <!--#in "REQUEST.form.keys()"-->
>    <input type="hidden" name="<!--#var sequence-item-->" 
>    value="<!--#var "REQUEST.form[_['sequence-item']]" html_quote-->">
>    <!--#/in-->
>
>    <!-- blah   blah    blah...  -->
>    </form>
>
>    It won't preserve the types of the objects, unfortunately.
>
>
>Is it worth considering something in ZDP for storing these useful little
>nuggets of code? They're not _really_ a pattern in the strictest sense
>of the word, more just a little "way to do something".
>
Certainly! This would be great for everybody! If you would like to make a
certain mechanism to easy post these 'snipperts' and to easy search for
them. Perhaps a ZClass?