ZPT Basics (part 2)
( Page 1 of 9 )

Dig deeper into the world of ZPT with examples and illustrations of how to create, manipulate and use variables and conditional tests in your templates.In the first part of this series, I introduced you to Zope Page Templates, explaining how they offered Zope developers an advantage over traditional DTML by separating user interface code from program logic. I also told you a little bit about the three components of ZPT, and gave you a crash course in TAL syntax and expressions.

In this second part, I'm going to continue exploring the ZPT landscape, delving deeper into the mysteries of TAL with a look at the special TAL attributes used to define template variables and perform conditional processing in your templates. While I will be including lots of examples to help you understand the concepts better, you *will* need to have read the first part of this article in order to figure out what I'm driving at in this second one. In case you haven't already - go get yourself up to speed and then flip the page for more.

>>> More Zope Articles          >>> More By Harish Kamath, (c) Melonfire