[albatross-users] Equivalent of PHP include

Wed Feb 18 00:47:17 EST 2004

I've grabbed XML documents before with albatross.  Not sure a tag would
help, since it would be rare to include a document un-parsed inside of a
page, but it would be a simple tag.  The method I used was:

# page module
from urllib import urlopen

def page_process(ctx):
	...
	 pagedata = urlopen("http://www.somesite.com/xml/news.rss")
	... doing stuff to pagedata ...
	ctx.locals._pageresult = pagedata

(Actually I parse pagedata inro a list of ocjects to al-for over).  I
suppose you could do:

<al-value expr='urlopen("http://www.somesite.com/xml/news.rss")'
noescape> and get output very similar to PHP.

remember, python is batteries included =p

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Churches [mailto:tchur at optushome.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:45 PM
> To: Andrew McNamara
> Cc: Sean Holdsworth; albatross-users @ object-craft . com . au
> Subject: Re: Re: [albatross-users] Equivalent of PHP include
> 
> 
> Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > >First question to the list, and probably a really dumb one to
> > boot...
> > >
> > >I can't seem to find a simple equivalent to the PHP include
> > directive. 
> > >I want to be able to insert the contents of a specified 
> URL at some 
> > >point in a template, rather like a server side include. 
> This is easy
> > to 
> > >do using 'al-include' for a file but doesn't seem to work 
> for a URL.
> > I 
> > >kludged things by making a copy of the remote data in a local file
> > and 
> > >using 'al-include'. I've also toyed with writing a macro to do this
> > for 
> > >a general URL but it's such a simple thing to want to do I 
> think I'm
> > 
> > >missing something. Any clues appreciated.
> > 
> > You're not missing something - Albatross doesn't do this.
> > 
> > I wonder what PHP is doing? It's not a trivial exercise to include
> > the
> > content of another page without breaking the rules of HTML 
> - strictly
> > speaking, it should be stripping off the enclosing <HTML>, <BODY>,
> > etc elements (and even this might not be enough).
> 
> You're assuming that the referenced URL points to a complete 
> HTML page. The 
> URL may point to just a snippet of dynamically generated 
> HTML, or to a GIF or 
> PNG graphic, also possibly dynamically generated by a Web 
> service elsewhere.
> 
> Tim C
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