April 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

RE: [Zope] Has anyone tried authentication accross multiple serve rs?
by Jay, Dylan 11 Apr '99

11 Apr '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:Brian@digicool.com] > Sent: Friday, 9 April 1999 23:37 > To: 'Jay, Dylan' > Cc: 'zope(a)zope.org' > Subject: RE: [Zope] Has anyone tried authentication accross multiple > serve rs? > > > > > > I've tried using cookie authentication with UserDB but so far > > can not get it > > to work. Everytime I try to login in it presents me with the > > normal basic > > authentication header. I believe this maybe something to do > > with permissions > > but so far can't figure it out. I am using IIS4 and have > > turned of basic > > authentication. > > The first thing to do here is to make sure that it is really > Zope causing the authentication challenge, or if it is IIS4. > You need to have _all_ authentication off in IIS and permissions > set to allow "everybody" to run the zope cgi. > > Can you log into Zope using the superuser name and password? I can log in using the superuser password but any other user gets rejected. Restarting the browser makes no difference. > If not, then IIS is attempting to handle authentication itself... > > > > Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com > Software Engineer 540.371.6909 > Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com >

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Re: [Zope] Using DTML - I'm too stupid
by Oliver Thuns 11 Apr '99

11 Apr '99

> > > This works for me. This works for me too :-))) Thanks But I have another little problem. I have a array of dictonaries {'Pos': [{'a': '123', 'b': '456', 'c': '789'}, {'a': '321', 'b': '654', 'c': '987'}]} and I want to iterate over this array:    What variable name must I use. "a" (b,c) and sequence-item['a'] doesn't work. I only read the DTML User's Guide, are there other docs, which describe DTML? Oliver

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Zopesters in Ithaca NY?
by Wade Leftwich 11 Apr '99

11 Apr '99

Hey gang, Sorry to broadcast this to the list, but I was overzealous in cleaning up my mailbox and deleted a message from a fellow Zope enthusiast who lives in or near Ithaca, NY. So if you are here in the Southern Tier, I'd really like to hear from you. Thanks -- Wade Leftwich <wade(a)okaynetwork.com> tel 607-277-1334

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the big 3: directory, search, news
by Karl Fast 11 Apr '99

11 Apr '99

I don't know how many people read Jakob Nielsen, but his latest Alertbox column talks about "intranet portal home pages" and the most important components of a successful intranet. He calls these "The Big 3". A shortened version of the article: 1. A directory hierarchy that structures all content on the intranet. This part of an intranet is sometimes called a "Mini-Yahoo." 2. A search field connecting to a search engine that indexes all pages on the intranet. 3. Current news about the company and employee interests. Typically, the intranet home page can replace traditional employee newsletters and the flood of email announcements and memos that reduce productivity in many companies. Coupling the news listings with an archive and a good search engine ensures that employees can retrieve information as needed and frees them from having to store and manage local copies (something that is very expensive considering the poor information management capabilities of current email software). Assuming he's write, and assuming that the Zope is being used on intranets and intranet-like environments, I'm wondering if these types of things exist for Zope. If yes, where are they and how powerful are they? If not, would it be useful to build them and have them either included with zope or readily downloaded. The more zope can do out of the box, the better. Yes? Now I know what you're thinking, "Hey, a volunteer". I would love to, but I'm just learning zope and python and have been sick for nearly 3 weeks, putting me 5 or 6 weeks behind. I'm swamped. No time. Not enough experience. Documentation, maybe. Code, not right now. Oh, the Nielsen column is here: Intranet Portals: The Corporate Information Infrastructure April 4, 1999 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990404.html

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Search & replace across multiple files in multiple subdirectories?
by Piotr Kozbial 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Is it possible to search & replace across multiple files in multiple subdirectories? Because ZOPE is storing files in a database I not able to do this using tools such as Windows Search&Replace utility. TIA Piotr

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How do I 'refresh' external methods.
by Jørgen Gårdsted Jørgensen 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

I am learning Zope, and here are my current problems: ---- I have a DTML method mk_person, that 1) makes a folder 2) adds an external method to that folder 3) calls the external method with ('myperson') ----- the external method imports the person-class and creates an instance with id='myperson' ----- the person class reads index_html from a file like this: index_html=DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile(Play_Location+"MyPersonDBForm.html") ----- Problem no.1: How do I ensure, that changes, I make in the 'MyPersonDBForm.html', are on the form the next time, 'myperson' is called? (for now I have to restart ZOPE, not very RADish...) Problem no 1.1: How do I ensure that changes, I have made to the person class-definition, are reflected, the next time, I call the DTML method (see above) , that creates an instance? (restart Zope???, I guess not, so I must have overlooked something) Problem no.2: How do I transfer environment variables to 'MyPersonDBForm.html', so that I can use:  (at present it gives me a nameerror) Thank You in advance Jorgen Gardsted Jorgensen gardsted(a)image.dk

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RE: [Zope] Zope to plain html
by Paul Everitt 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Karl wrote: > Hmm, but isn't the big problem with all of this that zope > doesn't use your > standard .html, .gif, etc. extensions for it's URL's. Sure, Zope can use these. Just name your objects index.html, logo.gif, etc. > This is something kind of bothers me a bit. Suppose I have a > site and I > want to move it to Zope to make it easier to manage. But I > have a lot of > people who visit my site and may have bookmarked various > pages. I don't > want my URL's to break because that means lost eyeballs, and > depending on > what I'm doing, lost business. Now I understand I can make > zope respond to > things like /index.html or /News/hello.gif, but doesn't this > require some > tricks. I mean, names like file.html isn't "the zope way", is > it? So to > use things like "wget" or curl or something like that, I need > to do some > pretty careful planning before I get started. Hmm, that's a good point. I personally like thinking about a "logo" without embedding in its ID that it is a JPG. What happens if I decide to switch to a GIF or PNG? Why should I have to embed in the object ID the information about how to view it? The "web object model" transmits type information as metadata, not in the name of the object! Reason number 57 why objects are better than files, I suppose. But you're right -- people that want to export to a filesystem had better go lowest common denominator and be prepared for the silliness of filesystems. > Am I right, or is my zope newbie status simply out of control > here <g>. Nope, your right, except that there isn't anything in Zope that prevents putting "file extensions" in object IDs. Notice the distributions you downloaded when you installed Zope? Those ended in .tgz, .exe, etc. And they are Zope objects stored in the Zope database... --Paul

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help with magic method "__of__"
by Karl & Mel 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

OK so i'm a little slow. I know that Confera is not supported, but I am using it as a base for an extended version that would allow messages to be moved, reordered, copied, paseted, etc. In otherwords turn Messages into folderish? containerish? objects. I don't want to give up the indexing and searching though. Which leads me to believe that I need to override the 'setItem' and '__getitem__' maybe? Anyway As I've been reading the code over and over and over (two weeks now) and have thrown out three attempts. I keep seeing things like self.data[id].__of__(self) msg=msg.__of__(self) r=map(lambda x, p=self: x.__of__(p), r) How does the magic method '__of__()' work? Also how does intSet{} work? ta for any info. Karl Putland

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Zope.cgi -> mod_zope
by Oleg Broytmann 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Hello! Is there any plan to make complex "Apache + Zope" even more efficient by making Zope.cgi a module (mod_zope, let's name it, or mod_pcgi)? Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann National Research Surgery Centre http://sun.med.ru/~phd/ Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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Re: [Zope] Using DTML - I'm too stupid
by Oliver Thuns 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

>Python: >print T(None, {'t': 'abc', 'w': 'DEF'}) > >DTML: > > Why can I not use dictionaries within dictonaries? Python: print T(None, {'t': 'abc', 'w': {'A': 'DEF'}}) DTML:   How could I use n-dimensional structures? Oliver

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