December 1999 - Zope

RE: [Zope] zope.org Web Site
by Rob Page 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

> The website seems to be down... or is it just snowed under currently It's working for me... Try a traceroute. --Rob

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Re: [Zope] ZopeDate weiredness again
by Alexandre Ratti 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Hi Joachim, If you want to display a date in a non-GMT format you cannot easily use fmt="%d.%m.%Y". These format code are all GMT-based. <dtml-with ZopeTime> <dtml-var "'%s/%s/%i - %s' % (dd(), mm(), year(), TimeMinutes())"> </dtml-with> displays the correct date and time (in French format) on my box. See this document: <http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats/> HTH. Alexandre At 12:00 01/12/1999 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:55:24 +0100 (CET) >From: Joachim Schmitz <js(a)ac-copy.net> >To: "zope-dev(a)zope.org" <zope(a)zope.org> >Subject: [Zope] ZopeDate weiredness again > >Hello, > ><dtml-var "ZopeTime('1999-12-01 GMT+2')" fmt="%d.%m.%Y"> ><dtml-var "ZopeTime('GMT+2')" fmt="%d.%m.%Y"> > >results in: 30.11.1999 01.12.1999 > >regardless of the time of day. If seen questions about this many times and >no solution. I just tested it one the Zope-site and that gives the same >results. You find it under: > >www.zope.org/Members/perry/testdate > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > >Joachim Schmitz > >WWW-Consultant > >email: js(a)ac-copy.net >tel: +49-241-89491-0 >fax: +49-241-89491-29

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Re: [Zope] ZopeDate weiredness again
by Alexandre Ratti 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Hi Adonis, I think there is another way to get a non-GMT date: <dtml-with ZopeTime> <dtml-var "'%s/%s/%i - %s' % (dd(), mm(), year(), TimeMinutes())"> </dtml-with> displays the correct date and time (in French format) on my box. See this document: <http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats/> HTH. Alexandre At 12:00 01/12/1999 -0800, you wrote: >From: technews(a)egsx.com >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:35:01 -0500 (EST) >To: Joachim Schmitz <js(a)ac-copy.net> >cc: "zope-dev(a)zope.org" <zope(a)zope.org> >Subject: Re: [Zope] ZopeDate weiredness again > >Yes I had a similar problem with > > > <dtml-var "ZopeTime('GMT+2')" fmt="%d.%m.%Y"> > >Regardless of what time zone I put it did not change. I also used >.toZone() and that did not work either. The only way to get the GMT+2 was >to divide 2/24 = 0.083 and added it to ZopeTime. i.e > ><dtml-var "ZopeTime() + 0.083" fmt="%d.%m.%Y"> > >That worked... > >Adonis

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zope.org Web Site
by Craig Avnit 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

The website seems to be down... or is it just snowed under currently

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dtml / zsql datatype problem
by Adam Gotheridge 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

I am trying to call an sql method which requires and integer argument. If I call it with <dtml-in "getMilestones(milestoneid='<dtml-var milestoneid>')"> I get "Invalid integer value for milestoneid " If I use <dtml-in "getMilestones(milestoneid=<dtml-var milestoneid>)"> I get "invalid syntax, for tag <dtml-in "getMilestones(milestoneid=<dtml-var milestoneid>)">, on line 24 of editTask Can anyone help? I have been at this for over 2 hours. Thanks, Adam

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Tree Tag of PARENT object
by Jason Spisak 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Zopists, I have been trying like the dickens to get the tree tag of a PARENT object, to no avail. <dtml-with "PARENTS[1]"> <dtml-tree>... </dtml-with> And all the variations thereof, arent bringing my the tree from the PARENTS point of view. If I do a <dtml-var "PARENTS[1].my_tree"> of course I just get the html back, not the rendered tree tag. Any ideas? I am trying to get the tree tag of the PARENT object. (Don't ask, don't tell:-) All my best, -- Jason Spisak webmaster(a)hiretechs.com

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A Comparison of Four Databases
by Patrick Phalen 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

A nicely done feature/price/performance comparison of 4 databases (Oracle, Informix, MySQL, Postgresql) can be found at: http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-general/1999-11/msg00227.html

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Fwd: Re: [Zope] some advice for a news site
by - 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: > We have a project of a Web-zine that has to run on a Linux box. I heard > about Zope and I'm impressed so far. > > The site will have functionality like "related news" and "send this to a > friend". We also need to be able to categorize the content/news and search > with keywords. > > There will be "subscribers" that will receive daily tips with links to the > news on the Web site. Those will be stored in a RDBMS. > > We took a look at PHP3 and MySQL as an interesting choice, but after reading > about Zope we would like to take the better alternative. > > Is it possible to use the Z ODB to store the news instead of a RDBMS, > without loosing the functionality we need?... Maybe a combination of Zope > and MySQL?. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Luis Bordas > we are in the publishing sector, and the company i worked for produces daily and weekly papers. we are developing a site to complement the print version. we have decided to go with zope, and so far has used ZClasses to help present news. the send to a friend feature is stolen from KMNetNews (thanks kevin). related link can easily be created, me think. the ZClass categorized according to publication, day, section, etc. Developement is still on going. help are welcome from those interested. we have not gone live yet, so don't know whether we have a good solution or not; with regard to performance, response time, etc.. some other things - comment form ala slash/squish dot for articles, customization of pages ala zope site, ... RDBMS use may come in the future, and we are more inclined towards postgres. note: the codes are not of professional quality, since we are very new with Zope and know little to no python, and may not even be useful to others. checkout the beta site, comments regards to response time, presentation, feature wish, etc are welcome http://202.184.94.19:8080 thks ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kedai.com.my/kk Am I Evil?

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New zope powered sites
by technews＠egsx.com 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Hi Guys, I am new to zope. I started about three weeks ago, and already got a couple of sites running Zope. I am not going to say it was easy. I was very frustrated but I am still going through my learning curve, and I should be able to revisit my work and improve on them in the future. The first site is at http://ads.ayna.com. The site is very simple nothing major but it was built in about 8-10 hours. The other site is http://www.aley.net/ This site is much more complex. It is a a community portal with integrated internet directory, business listing, News (using Squidot), Horoscopes, Calendar of Events (Calendar), Movies listings, Airline information, etc. We also used external Python methods to suck in content from our affiliate sites. It was soft lauched a couple of days ago, and so far the site has been stable. We are a little worried about the load, since our main Internet diretory serves over 4Million pages per month, and some of the visitors will go to this new site. We used Rewrite rules in Apache to exclude certain directories from being served by Zope and everything works like a charm. The only catch is that the site is in Arabic, but hey it will help us with the Internationalization part as we find bugs, etc.. So far the major problem has been the use of ZCatalog with Arabic. At this moment we do not have time to figure out what is the problem, so we will use our search engine to index and search the site. It will not be as beatiful as we would have wanted, but se la vie. If you have any comments, please feel free to email me. Best regards, Adonis El Fakih

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another ZClass question (easy?)
by Sam Gendler 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Please forgive the flurry of questions, but the ZClass documentation is not exactly chock full o' detail. If I am trying to build a ZClass that requires a database connection, how to I go about building the add form. I want it to look much like the userDb add form, with a pull down of available connections. I can construct the dtml by copying out of UserDb, but where to store the connection. Is it a property of my ZClass, or is it a method. How do I assign it. Mostly, if someone could point me at a ZClass product that does some of these things, I would greatly appreciate it. Another question has just cropped up. I cannot add ZSQL methods to the ZClass, because I don't have a db connection, but I don't want to have them connect to a particular connection, I want them to connect to the db connection that gets assigned to the instance of the ZClass. Presumably, this could also be solved with a good example ZClass. Thanks --sam

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