# insert a news 
if len(_newsBody)>255:
    print _("Body must not exceed 255 characters")
    raise SCRIPT_END
    
import datetime
table = Import("portalDb",REL=REL).table

so=Session()

# form was submitted with iso-8859-1 encoding, transform it to utf-8 for SQLite
for key in ("newsTitle","newsBody"):
    REQUEST[key] = unicode(REQUEST[key],'iso-8859-1').encode('utf-8')

table['news'].insert(so.login,REQUEST["newsTitle"],
    REQUEST["newsBody"],datetime.datetime.today())
table['news'].commit()

raise HTTP_REDIRECTION,"index.pih"
