[Zope] dynamic radio buttons

[garry saddington]

On Saturday 02 October 2004 20:24, David Hassalevris wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "garry saddington" <garry at joydiv.fsnet.co.uk>
> To: <zope at zope.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 11:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] dynamic radio buttons
>
> > > I am not quite sure what you are looking for, but you want to have a
> > > different radio button 'name' for each iteration thru the dtml-in loop
>
> you
>
> > > could use the 'sequence-index' or 'sequence-number' loop variables.
> > >
> > > eg.
> > >
> > > <input type =radio name=<dtml-var sequence-index>:records
>
> value="A">B&nbsp;
>
> > > <input type =radio name=<dtml-var sequence-index>:records
>
> value="B">B&nbsp;
>
> > > <input type =radio name=<dtml-var sequence-index>:records
>
> value="C">B&nbsp;
>
> > > <input type =radio name=<dtml-var sequence-index>:records
>
> value="D">B&nbsp;
>
> > > <input type =radio name=<dtml-var sequence-index>:records
>
> value="E">B&nbsp;
>
> > > <input type =radio name=<dtml-var sequence-index>:records
>
> value="F">B&nbsp;
>
> > > This will give you a set of radio buttons (labelled 0-n, where n is the
> > > number of dtml-in loop iterations - 1) that have the same name for any
> > > given loop iteration, but will change from one loop iteration to the
>
> next.
>
> > > (sequence-number counts from 1 instead of from 0).
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> >
> > Thanks, this is getting nearer but how could i then iterate over
> > <dtml-var sequence-index> in the ZSQL method that writes to the database?
> > regards
> > garry
> > ___________
>
> Garry,
>
> You should call an intermediary script that will call zSQL.  Just repeat
> <dtml-in getclassmembers> there as well   and match sequence-numbers  , eg
>    mark = REQUEST.get('mark' + str(sequence-number))
>   termark =   REQUEST.get('termark' + str(sequence-number))
>
> Now you can call zsql like  zUpdate(studentID, mark,termark) ;
> Sorry for the ugly pseudo code.
>
> David
This looks good, thanks.
regards
garry