November 1999 - Zope

RE: [Zope] [ANN] ZpdfDocument-0-0-1
by Rob Page 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

> With all the ZDP excitement and discussions related to nicely formated > documents, I would like to do an early release of > ZpdfDocument. It creates relatively nice formatted PDF output from structured text or > HTML. You can download it from: > http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/ZpdfDocument Holy moley -- that's cool! Easy install, eeasy PDF docs! Thanks Pavlos! --Rob

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Getting an object indirectly in a PythonMethod
by Cayce Ullman 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Untested, but, try : return eval(self.ObjNameProperty) That should work. Cayce <I have a python method as part of a ZClass. I want this method to return an <object whose id is stored in a ZClass property. In DTML this would be as <simple as <dtml-return "_[ObjNameProperty]"> <I can't figure out how to do this in a python method. Things such as <self.getattr(ObjNameProperty) don't seem to work at all. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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Using Zope without really using it...
by Tim Wilson 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Hi everyone, I'm wondering about the feasibility of using ZServer's FTP capabilities and the new SiteAccess product to do virtual hosting on our school's Web site. Currently, everything but the main District page is being served from Apache with virtual hosting, a virtual host for each building. I know that I can use Netscape Composer and upload files to Zope. But what if someone is working on a page, has no understanding of Zope, and no desire to learn it. Would ZServer be a good solution for old-style static HTML pages contained in the ZODB? For example, could I tell a 4th grade teacher to send her site to ftp://schoolname.k12.mn.us/staff/teachername/ and have it work OK? Is there any reason that ZServer wouldn't play nice with any of the other WYSIWYG Web page editors out there? -Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson(a)chem.umn.edu | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Hi, It was a normal week for Zope: many software announcements, community expansion, and many other exciting developments. Here are some hilights. It's official now, there will be a Zope book from O'Reilly. It won't be out for a while. When it is released it will probably be available under an open content license. Performance improved on the Zope.org web site thanks to new hardware and improved cache settings. Many folks who have submitted Zope bug reports will be happy to see lots of fixes appearing in CVS. These fixes mark early preparations for a Zope 2.1 release. * The performance of the www.zope.org web site was improved this week due to smarter HTTP and ZODB cache settings and better hardware. There were a few short down times but it looks like smooth sailing form here on out. Hooray! http://www.zope.org/ * Mike Pelletier announced that he and Dan York of LinuxCare will be writing a Zope book for O'Reilly. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013229.html * A perennial discussion on the Zope list is porting Zope to Java. Using Servlets with Zope would be great and JPython makes this relatively easy, right? Wrong. Philip Eby gives a good description of why we're not likely to see JZope for a long time. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013353.html * Edd Dumbill announced SiteSummary 1.1 a Zope product for managing RSS data. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013100.html * OgilvyInteractive is looking for a Chinese speaking Zope programmer. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013175.html * Stephan Richter announced ZPickle 0.0.1 a Zope Product to provide pickling services. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013266.html * Oleg Broytmann announced a Russian Zope mailing list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012885.html * Jeff Rush announced that he has updated his Zope RPMs. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012967.html * Marc Gehling announced a German Zope Yahoo club. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012908.html * Ethan Fremen announced a Zope and CSS How-To. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013032.html * Luciano Ramalho announced that Brazil On-line has launched a Zope-based real time news service. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013031.html * Petru Paler announced ClickTracker a Zope Product to track user activity. http://www.zope.org/Members/ppetru/ClickTracker * Tom Deprez posted summarized Zope Documentation Project happening in his "ZDP Weekly NEWS" post to the zdp list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/001003.html * Amos Latteier made this slides for his talk "Extending Zope in Python" available. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/PORPIGSlides * Mike Pelletier released ZDiscussions 0.1.0 This is a Zope Product for threaded discussions. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Examples folder: where is at?
by Adrian Esteban Madrid 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

There used to be a (Product?) folder with examples on transversing folders, counters, etc. Anybody knows where is at? I've been looking for it unsuccesfully. -- Adrian Esteban Madrid Network Support, ATS Brigham Young University

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FYI: Site back up
by Paul Everitt 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

The site is back up. I'll send a description of the travails in just a moment. Thanks for the patience! --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul(a)digicool.com 540.371.6909 ----------------------------------------- The Open Source Zope application server http://www.zope.org/

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Newbie, pcgi, question
by julio dinis 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

Hi all, I'm trying to setup zope as pcgi on iis. If I hit http://localhost:8080/image.gif I receive the image image.gif that is on my zope site root. But if I hit http://localhost/scripts/zope.pcgi/image.gif I receive a bad request. This is because when I hit http://localhost/scripts/zope.pcgi I get my homepage without images. Even http://localhost/scripts/zope.pcgi/ gives me a bad request. I believe maybe I just dont no how to use pcgi or the logic of it. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot, Júlio ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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RE: [Zope] Java Port
by Jay, Dylan 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje@telecommunity.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 05:07 > To: Joe Grace; zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Java Port > > > At 08:06 PM 11/2/99 -0800, Joe Grace wrote: > > > >Finally, on a coder side, there's been some discussion on this topic > >before. DC has reflected on the subject and pointed out some > >non-trivialities of porting to Java (mainly (?) C code). I > imagine it's > >non-trivial, but getting something running might be reasonable. > > Actually, no, it isn't. The only part of Zope which might be > 'reasonable' > is the ZPublisher bit, and even it makes heavy use of reflection (see > below). Here are just a few of the things I'm aware of: <-- cut many good reasons why a JZope is hard --> > I thought the idea was pretty cool myself a while back, until > I started > thinking about what it would actually take. IMHO, it's too > much work just > to get one extra buzzword added to Zope's already extensive > collection of > them. :) Ok but what about a Java servlet product. Leveging off existing servlet code seems to be of a reasonable amount of use even if you can't run your Zope server on your microwave :) Such a product would marshal the passed in parameters to some long running servlet server and do the same for the results. The same could be done for cgi scripts as well.

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www.zope.org requires authentication
by Pavlos Christoforou 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

Hello - Seems like www.zope.org requires authentication even for normal access ... It was ok an hour ago ... Pavlos

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RE: [Zope] Permissions with object container ZClass
by Jay, Dylan 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

There must be a better way!!! I don't want to let uses get at other TinyTable info in my site!! > -----Original Message----- > From: Adonis El Fakih [mailto:adonis@egsx.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 16:38 > To: Jay, Dylan > Cc: 'zope(a)zope.org' > Subject: Re: [Zope] Permissions with object container ZClass > > > Hi, > > I had to give the Anonymous user the ability to Query Tiny > Table to allow > them to access the page without having to authenticate.. > > Adonis > > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Jay, Dylan wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:26:49 +1100 > > From: "Jay, Dylan" <djay(a)lucent.com> > > To: "'zope(a)zope.org'" <zope(a)zope.org> > > Subject: [Zope] Permissions with object container ZClass > > > > I have a ZClass that contains one TinyTable when its > instanciated. I have a > > DTML method that queries that TinyTable. When I access this > method using the > > manager role all is fine, however when I use Anonymous it asks for > > permission. I don't want to give the Anonymous user Query Tiny Table > > permission however if I give the DTML method proxy > permission of Manager it > > says I'm unauthorized. > > How can I get this to work? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > > > (Related lists - please, no cross posts or HTML encoding! > > > > To receive general Zope announcements, see: > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > > > For developer-specific issues, zope-dev(a)zope.org - > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > > -- > Adonis El Fakih - President, CEO > Engineering Graphical Solutions, Inc. (EGS) > 70 Boston Road, Suite A301, Chelmsford MA 01824 USA > Fax (978) 244-0544 - adonis(a)egsx.com > >

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