[Zope] String to object ID

[Chris McDonough]

One way might be to forego the use of the dtml-var tag to display the
image and just do:

<dtml-with "_.namespace(imagename='images.hd' + section)">
   <IMG SRC="<dtml-var imagename>">
</dtml-with>


Chris McDonough     mailto:chrism@digicool.com
Digital Creations   http://www.digicool.com
Publishers of Zope  http://www.zope.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goodrichs [mailto:nbd95@macconnect.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 6:06 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] String to object ID
> 
> 
> We have a short snippet of code that builds an image name 
> from properties
> when a web page is called. We need to use this string to 
> directly call the
> image object and display it in the page. For the life of me I 
> cannot figure
> out how to coerce a string into an object id.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> currently:
> 
> <dtml-with "_.namespace(imagename='images.hd' + section)">
>   <dtml -var imagename>
> </dtml-with>
> 
> this correctly prints the name of the image object we want.
> 'images.hd.thisimage'
> 
> How do I use that to display the image?
> 
> DAve.
> 
> 
> 
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