Dear Zope community, I am proud to announce the initial release of zyp (zyp yellow pages). - Purpose: create a yellow pages site based on CMF / Zope. - Tested against: CMF-1.2 / Zope-2.5.1 - Project's home page including tarballs, CVS repository and Mailing Lists: http://www.sourceforge.org/projects/zyp - Test site: http://zyp.dyndns.org:8080/zyp (most of the test data is in German - don't hesitate to add content in your favorite language) - License: GPL - Status: Development The idea behind zyp is that a Manager designs a structure of "CMF zyp Category" (folderish) objects. In addition, he/she can define "CMF zyp Category Link" objects which point from a "CMF zyp Category" object to another "CMF zyp Category" object. Members of a CMF site can than add "CMF zyp Entry" and "CMF zyp Address" objects in their Member folder. For each "CMF zyp Entry" object a Member defines links to "CMF zyp Category" objects in which the entry will be listed. A possibly interesting feature is that the above mentioned links won't break if the linked object is moved within the CMF site. This is done by introducing a universal zid which identifies an object independently of its location in the site. (Thanks for the code snippets to alex.khan, see http://www.zope.org/Members/alex.khan/GlobalSystemId?pp=1 ... if anybody knows how I can contact him, please let me know, because I am unsure, if I am allowed to use his code ...) Planned: - Ranking of the most visited entries / categories - Banners - Contacts (analogous to Addresses) - Articles on a per category base - invoicing for entries and banners based on click-throughs and/or page impressions Any comments, hints, critizim and encouragement are very welcome. You may contact me at zyp@jenswolk.de Yours, Jens Wolk