ZPT

= CherryPy with Zope Page Templates (ZPT) =

Zope Page Templates are developed as part of [http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 Zope3], but can be used outside of Zope with very little effort.

 1. Check out the zpkgtools from Zope3 Subversion; this will be used to build ZPT from Subversion:
    {{{
    svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zpkgtools/trunk
    }}}
 1. Generate a build of ZPT.
    {{{
    % cd trunk
    % ./bin/zpkg --resource-map=svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/ReleaseSupport/trunk/PackageMaps/zope3.map -ca ZPT
    }}}
    This will produce ZPT-0.0.0.tgz.
 1. Install the generated package:
    {{{
    % tar zxvf ZPT-0.0.0.tgz
    % cd ZPT-0.0.0
    % make install
    }}}
 1. Now that ZPT has been installed, a simple sub-class will allow you to easily pass values into templates.
    {{{
    #!python

from zope.pagetemplate.pagetemplatefile import PageTemplateFile

class simpleZpt(PageTemplateFile):
    def pt_getContext(self, args=(), options={}, **kw):
        rval = PageTemplateFile.pt_getContext(self, args=args)
        options.update(rval)
        return options

    }}}
 1. To use a page template in CherryPy, simply return the result of calling the template from your method.  For example:
    {{{
#!python
@cherrypy.expose
def page():
   template = simpleZpt('pagetemplate.pt')
   return template()
}}}
 1. To pass top-level objects into a template, simply specify them as keyword arguments in the call.  For example:
    {{{
    #!python
@cherrypy.expose
def page():
   template = simpleZpt('pagetemplate.pt')
   context={'user':'Anonymous', 'title':'Page Title'}
   return template(context=context)
    }}}

For details on ZPT syntax, see the [http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AppendixC.stx ZPT Reference].

You may want to try [http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/ SimpleTAL] instead - it has similar to ZPT functionality.

{{{
#!html
<h2 class='compatibility'>Older versions</h2>
}}}

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