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Zope Page Templates

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Page Templates provide an elegant templating mechanism that achieves a clean separation of presentation and application logic while allowing for designers to work with templates in their visual editing tools (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, GoLive, etc.).

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ZPT (Zope Page-Template) Architecture

There are a number of major components that make up the page-template architecture:

  • The TAL compiler and interpreter. This is responsible for compiling source files and for executing compiled templates. See the zope.tal package for more information.

  • An expression engine is responsible for compiling expressions and for creating expression execution contexts. It is common for applications to override expression engines to provide custom expression support or to change the way expressions are implemented. The zope.app.pagetemplate package uses this to implement trusted and untrusted evaluation; a different engine is used for each, with different implementations of the same type of expressions.

    Expression contexts support execution of expressions and provide APIs for setting up variable scopes and setting variables. The expression contexts are passed to the TAL interpreter at execution time.

    The most commonly used expression implementation is that found in zope.tales.

  • Page templates tie everything together. They assemble an expression engine with the TAL interpreter and orchestrate management of source and compiled template data. See zope.pagetemplate.interfaces.

Page Templates

Introduction

Page Templates provide an elegant templating mechanism that achieves a clean separation of presentation and application logic while allowing for designers to work with templates in their visual editing tools (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, GoLive, etc.).

This document focuses on usage of Page Templates outside of a Zope context, it does not explain how to write page templates as there are several resources on the web which do so.

Simple Usage

Using Page Templates outside of Zope3 is very easy and straight forward. A quick example:

>>> from zope.pagetemplate.pagetemplatefile import PageTemplateFile
>>> my_pt = PageTemplateFile('hello_world.pt')
>>> my_pt()
u'<html><body>Hello World</body></html>'

Subclassing PageTemplates

Lets say we want to alter page templates such that keyword arguments appear as top level items in the namespace. We can subclass PageTemplate and alter the default behavior of pt_getContext() to add them in:

from zope.pagetemplate.pagetemplate import PageTemplate

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

class foo:
    def getContents(self): return 'hi'

So now we can bind objects in a more arbitrary fashion, like the following:

template = """
<html>
<body>
<b tal:replace="das_object/getContents">Good Stuff Here</b>
</body>
</html>
"""

pt = mypt()
pt.write(template)
pt(das_object=foo())

See interfaces.py.

CHANGES

3.5.1 (2010-04-30)

  • Removed use of ‘zope.testing.doctestunit’ in favor of stdlib’s doctest.

  • Added dependency on “zope.security [untrustedpython]” because the ‘engine’ module uses it.

3.5.0 (2009-05-25)

  • Added test coverage reporting support.

  • Moved ‘engine’ module and related test scaffolding here from zope.app.pagetemplate package.

3.4.2 (2009-03-17)

  • Remove old zpkg-related DEPENDENCIES.cfg file.

  • Change package’s mailing list address to zope-dev at zope.org, as zope3-dev at zope.org is now retired.

  • Change cheeseshop to pypi in the packages’ homepage url.

3.4.1 (2009-01-27)

  • Fix test due to recent changes in zope.tal.

3.4.0 (2007-10-02)

  • Initial release independent of the Zope 3 tree.

3.2.0 (2006-01-05)

  • Corresponds to the verison of the zope.pagetemplate package shipped as part of the Zope 3.2.0 release.

  • ZPTPage macro expansion: changed label text to match the corresponding label in Zope 2 and activated the name spaces for macro expansion in ‘read’. See http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/199

  • Coding style cleanups.

3.1.0 (2005-10-03)

  • Corresponds to the verison of the zope.pagetemplate package shipped as part of the Zope 3.1.0 release.

  • Fixed apidoc and Cookie, which were using wrong descriptor class (changed to ‘property’). See http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/387

  • Documentation / style / testing cleanups.

3.0.0 (2004-11-07)

  • Corresponds to the verison of the zope.pagetemplate package shipped as part of the Zope X3.0.0 release.

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