[Zope] lists, not strings in database

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Greg Fischer]
[[
That makes sense.  So, what I would like is either a comma sepparated
list in the column, or space separated.

aperson bperson cperson
]]

OK, easy enough.  If "multiples" is a list of strings, you can get a
comma-separated string for it like this:

<dtml-var "_.string.join(multiples,',')">

You can use any separator, not just ",".  You could store this string in the
database.  When you want to loop through all the names, you can create a
list from the string like this:

 "_.string.split(csv_string,',')"

You can use this list with dtml-in, as in

<dtml-in "_.string.split(csv_string,',')">...</dtml-in>

The only point you still need to handle is to make sure that your html form
always returns a list (otherwise you have to check it before you feed it to
a dtml-in statement).  You can make this happen by adding ":list" to the
name of the input element:

<select name='person:list'>...</select>

Cheers,

Tom P