February 1999 - Zope

Starting Zope?
by Kristian Vilmann 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

Hello, I just installed Zope on my Linux-box a few days ago, and I must say I'm impressed. I tried Zope-zserver, but figured that I'd rather have it running through Apache. So I followed the WEBSERVER.TXT, but it didn't work. After a while playing around with it, I noticed that pcgi.pid and pcgi.soc wasn't in /var/local/zope/. I don't know what, but something made me run Zope.cgi from Apache's cgi-bin-directory, and suddenly pcgi.pid and pcgi.soc were there! Of course Zope.cgi gave me some error messages, but now the thing is working. What did I miss? Is this in the docs somewhere? Do I have to start something before I try to access Zope through the web-browser. Any pointers would be appreciated. /kristian -- Kristian Vilmann - kristian(a)vilmann.com Disclaimer -- These opiini^H^H damn! ^H^H ^Q ^[ .... :w :q :wq :wq! ^d ^X ^? exitX Q ^C ^? :quitbye CtrlAltDel ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT ^[zz ^[ZZZZZZ ^vi man vi ^@ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D ^d !! man help ^C ^c :e! help exit ?Quit ?q CtrlShftDel "Hey, what does Stop L1A d..."

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Re: [Zope] Installation on Solaris
by nexusweb 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

We have installed Zope but can't get it to authenticate. We have placed it in Dick's account so he can play around with it and try and get it working. We really want to offer this to NexusWeb clients but are at a wall and beyond what we know how to do. You can email Jason directly at jason(a)pwebtech.com he takes care of all of our server upgrades and additions. Tam NexusWeb Hosting and Design http://www.nexusweb.net ---------- > From: Jeff Bauer <jbauer(a)rubic.com> > To: dickw(a)tkb.att.ne.jp > Cc: webmaster(a)nexusweb.net; zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Installation on Solaris > Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 9:11 PM > > > I've helped convince the people at nexusweb to become a Zope ISP. > > They're pretty friendly in responding to me, most ISPs that I talked > > with flatly refused to have anything to do with Zope. > > But it looks like they're having problems getting it up and running on > > a Solaris machine. > > Any pointers someone can pass their way in the installation? > > > Not exactly sure what the problem is. > > Dick, > > Please provide more information, or have your ISP send > a problem description directly to the list. Zope runs > fine on Sun Solaris. > > Regards, > > Jeff Bauer > Rubicon, Inc. >

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Hiding Products
by Mike Pelletier 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

I needed to have a container-like Product. In order to avoid re-inventing the wheel, I simply made it Folderish, and went about the meat of the Product. There is a companion Product which is contained by the Folderish Product to provide content. I don't particularily want the user/manager to be able to create this Product any old place, since it doesn't make sense out of context. It's not hard to throw an error, but I would rather the Product simply not show up in the list of Addable items in the management system. Is there a way to do this? Mike. -- --- | Mike Pelletier Work: 519-746-1607 /opeware! | Software Developer Home: 519-725-7710 --- | mike(a)zopeware.com Fax: 519-746-7566 http://www.zopeware.com | Zopeware is not endorsed by Digital Creations

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RE: [Zope] DTML Doc property from DTML Method in tag
by Brian Lloyd 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

> this is my structure: > > Folder 'HERE' has Folders within it. > Assume that they have ids ID1, ID2, ID3, etc. > Each of these Folders has a property 'common_name' > > Thus, in HERE/ID1 can reference  and > get 'Name 1'. > > In HERE, I execute a form. The checkboxes build a list ids > ['ID1', 'ID2']. > Processing the form, >  gives me the list. >  gives 'ID1' on the > first iteration. But I want to get 'Name 1' Try this:  My id is:  My common_name is:   Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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DTML Doc property from DTML Method in tag
by Kevin Dangoor 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

Hi, I'm having trouble getting at an DTML Document property from within an in tag in a DTML Method. I have a folder property that lists the documents I want to appear in a particular order. I would like to display the "title" and "summary" of those documents.    So, if the docs list contained an entry "test", what would I put in the var tag to get test.title? If I use "test.title", I get the title. If I try "sequence-item+'.title'" or "_[sequence-item+'.title']", I get a NameError. What simple little thing am I missing here? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor kid(a)ans.net / 734-214-7349

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BHS 0.5: download location
by Andreas Kostyrka 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

Hi! I've forgot the download location where one can get BHS 0.5 :( So here it is: http://www.mtg.co.at/bobo/BoboHTTPServer/ Andreas -- Win95: n., A huge annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS, Win 3.x, Win98.

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Re: Date/Time - DTML - SQL question
by chalaouxf＠synbio.tpgnet.net 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

Hi, My solution is to write an Extension method using DateTime module. With year(), mm(), dd() methods the string.join() method and float() function give a way for a float representation like 19990215.0. Never heard about this module until looking inside /zope/lib/python/DateTime directory. Where Can I find information about PrincipiaTime() ? It's cool, cause it is my first realization with an Extension method and my life could be easer than with pur DTML. Do not create a class in Extension method modules. Just use fonction ;) Thanks All, to all for yours ideas. <color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> In the following sql method I select records with 'date' (a float field) > superior to an 'dayfloatdate' float field. 'dayfloatdate' is just the date > of the day in the float fomat (i.e. 19990215.0) > > How is it possible to construct 'dayfloatdate' before sqlmethod > call cause construct 'dayfloatdate' in the sql method seems > difficult for me :) > > > ----------------------- > SQL method > ----------------------- > select * from table where date > < > > > Bye, FR. François-Régis Chalaoux Bioinformatics Group Synthélabo Biomoléculaire 67080 Strasbourg Cedex FRANCE Tél : 03 88 60 87 14 Fax : 03 88 45 90 70

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BHS 0.5
by Andreas Kostyrka 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

Hi! I've released BoboHTTPServer.py 0.5 today. (Not ZopeHTTPServer!) It has some features: -) URL renaming to support a frontend Apache. Instead of many options, you just provide the real external URL. (UserFriendly!!!) -) Support for more than one external (proxied) URL. -) Sensible usage message :) -) Zope support. (untested, as I do not have Zope :) ) -) Better documentation on how to integrate BHS with Apache. To summerize: BHS 0.5 is (should be, as it's untested with Zope) the easiest way to publish Bobo/Zope projects :), and it can basically do all the cases pcgi can with BHS 0.5 :) Could someone try if it works with Zope? Andreas -- Win95: n., A huge annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS, Win 3.x, Win98.

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RE: [Zope] Mapping Image object properties to img tag attributes
by Paul Everitt 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

Jephte wrote: > It would be cool to map Image object properties to the <IMG> > tag attributes. > When using image for links, it is better to specify the > attribute 'border=0' I *believe* the long-term (read: next 4 weeks) answer to this is expose a knob in the Control Panel. That is, you could go to Control Panel->Products->Images and edit the DTML that formats the result of . Your changes would then apply to all Image objects in your Zope site. Alternatively the management screen for Image objects could be hacked to let each Image control its own. --Paul

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Mapping Image object properties to img tag attributes
by Service Informatique CHSR 15 Feb '99

15 Feb '99

I just posted this to the collector. What do you think? ---------------------8<------------------------ It would be cool to map Image object properties to the <IMG> tag attributes. When using image for links, it is better to specify the attribute 'border=0' I want to be able to write , with the MyImage object having the border=0 attribute, or . The rendered HTML text is then: <img src=/path/to/MyImage alt="MyImage" border=0> ---------------------8<------------------------ Also, many thanks to Jim who explained that StructuredText gets confused with \r\n. I looked at the code, but quickly gave up as regular expressions is not my hobby :-) Perhaps someone could change this someday? For the moment, i take care of translating \r\n to \n before feeding my database. Regards, Jephte CLAIN Service Informatique

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