[Zope-DB] Creating a hyperlink using results from query

[Charlie Clark]

On 2005-04-08 at 11:44:17 [+0200], Martin Jennings <jennings at kpnqwest.ch> 
wrote:
> Firstly, thank you to those who answered by query on the empty result set,
> it set me on the way to finding a solution.
> 
> Not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but here is the question.
> 
> I have got information from a ZSQL request in a result set and I want to
> use one of the values as a parameter in a hyperlink, how do I do this?
> 
> I.e. <a href="htmlPage?parameter=ZSQLValue">my link<a>
> 
> How do I write the code for this?
> 
> Thank you in advance, and once again, sorry if this is not the correct list.

Hi Martin,

read up on doing this with PageTemplates. You need to use the TALES keyword 
"attributes"

Something similar to

<block tal:repeat="result myQuery">
<a tal:attributes="href result/link" tal:content="result/value"></a>
</block>

is what you want.

Charlie
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