April 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

#with tag problems
by Christopher Petrilli 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

OK, here's the DTML:   <H3></H3> <P> <B>Seen</B>:  @  </P>    The problem is this... I'm passing this an object id as a GET variable (showFoo?movie=bar), and it's not working correctly to grab the title of the document ID I'm handing it. movie = DTML document, it has all those properties (title, review_date, theatre), but theydon't want to show... I get attribute errors. If I take out all but  I get the title of the enclosing folder, not the movie document. THis works just fine in another DTML method that looks idental to this one. Ideas? Must be something silly. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for | petrilli(a)amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright

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Re: [Zope] ZServer & CGI scripts
by Amos Latteier 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

At 05:05 PM 4/2/99 -0800, you wrote: >Can ZServer run normal cgi scripts?? > >My thought is to run ZServer and run PHP3 scripts via a php3 compiled cgi. > >Anybody have thoughts on this?? I believe that medusa comes with a CGI handler, or at least the beginnings of one. Since ZServer is meant to serve Zope, not CGI, it doesn't come with the necessary modules, but you could probably get something working by poking around with medusa. However, if you're only interested in php, I would suggest Apache, since there is a php module for it which is quite popular. -Amos PS Find out more about medusa at http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/

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Re: [Zope] [Beginner question] Date last revised
by Tony McDonald 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

> Hello, > > What way is there to refer to the last-modified date of a Zope document, > from within it? Since it's displayed on the management page for a > document, I'm sure it's accessible somehow, but so far guessing at names to > use in > >  > > hasn't gotten me anywhere, and I don't see it listed in Properties. Am I > overlooking it in one of those lists in the User Guide? > > Thanks, > > Mitch Marks > This from something I sent to the FAQ.... How do I get todays date displayed? Use  to get a raw output, eg '1999/03/26 12:05:17.0425 GMT' all the custom formats in Appendix A of the DTML users guide are recognised so that  yields Mar 26, 1999 12:05 pm ...for last modified date, change ZopeTime to bobobase_modification_time (honest!). hth Tone.

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multiple SUBMIT buttons for same method, with parameter
by Piers Lauder 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

I can use the following in a DTML document to call a specific method: <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="mymethod:method" VALUE="Delete this item"> But what if I wanted to have lots of them? I'd like to have multiple SUBMIT buttons, all referring to the same method but diffentiated by parameter - possible? Ie: something like: <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="mymethod:1:method" VALUE="Delete item 1"> passing the parameter '1' to 'mymethod', and then later <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="mymethod:2:method" VALUE="Delete item 2"> and so on. Incidentally, is the ':method' trick documented? - I can't find it in the DTML guide.

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RE: [Zope] emacs - DTML minor mode?
by Michel Pelletier 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan B. Baker [mailto:jbb@spyderlab.com] > Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 12:02 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] emacs - DTML minor mode? > > > Is anyone working on a DTML minor mode for emacs based on the HTML > major mode? If not I think I might take a stab at doing it, > then again, > I've never written an emacs extension before so no promises. > Please do! This is the one thing that agrevates me the most, lack of solid emacs integration. > If anyone has experience with writing emacs lisp perhaps we could > collaborate on a editing mode for DTML? Don't look at me. :) > > I was thinking this could be a nice way to avoid the somewhat tedious > process of editing DTML code in the browser for emacs users by adding > support for inserting the common DTML start/end tags. Also, > some kind of > indenting support for DTML would be nice, though this is a matter of > style. > > Someday it would be nice if emacs could interface via WebDAV directly. > > Actually, I was thinking it would be nice to have a command-line based > WebDAV client ala the ftp command so that emacs could access > WebDAV via > some simple mods to the angeftp mode. This way you could re-use the > existing python WebDAV client code. This probably a better short term solution than trying to hack webDAV into emacs. Brian has a webdav client library and so does Greg Stein. Making a command line tool from then would not be to hard. If you commit on doing the minor mode I'll write your command line tool. :) -Michel > > ------- > Jordan B. Baker -- jbb(a)spyderlab.com > weaving the web @ http://www.spyderlab.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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emacs - DTML minor mode?
by Jordan B. Baker 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

Is anyone working on a DTML minor mode for emacs based on the HTML major mode? If not I think I might take a stab at doing it, then again, I've never written an emacs extension before so no promises. If anyone has experience with writing emacs lisp perhaps we could collaborate on a editing mode for DTML? I was thinking this could be a nice way to avoid the somewhat tedious process of editing DTML code in the browser for emacs users by adding support for inserting the common DTML start/end tags. Also, some kind of indenting support for DTML would be nice, though this is a matter of style. Someday it would be nice if emacs could interface via WebDAV directly. Actually, I was thinking it would be nice to have a command-line based WebDAV client ala the ftp command so that emacs could access WebDAV via some simple mods to the angeftp mode. This way you could re-use the existing python WebDAV client code. ------- Jordan B. Baker -- jbb(a)spyderlab.com weaving the web @ http://www.spyderlab.com

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RE: [Zope] DTML question
by Paul Everitt 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

Things you never expect to hear on the Zope list: John wrote: > I should have known this as it is, in fact, clearly shown in > the manual. I guess in one case out of a hundred we actually documented something :^) --Paul

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RE: [Zope] Building dtml objects now...
by Paul Everitt 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

Andrew wrote: > Im finally starting to build some DTML objects for Dreamweaver, and I > wondered if folks could tell me what their "wish - list" might be for > this. This is fantastic news! Unfortunately I don't know too much about Dreamweaver so I'll have to go over and talk to Jeffrey. > For example for the VAR tag, do you really want to have to specify all > those attributes or should there be a secondary simpler > object that just > inserts a  I've been told this is a classic question in the SGML world -- should a tag have a bunch of attributes or should the attributes be nested tags? > Someday when/if dreamweaver get's webdav savvy Ill have the var object > obtain a list of all available variables at that level and > allow you to > just "choose" one. This brings up a bit of a problem that I wonder how Dreamweaver can address it. If I go to zope.foo/Me/MyDocument, I get the _rendered_ version of MyDocument. If I want to edit MyDocument, I want to edit the _unrendered_ version. Brian has been talking about this in WebDAV. But I don't know enough about how Dreamweaver interacts with the things it is editing... > The possibilites are there. Hmm, if you could just embed Python in Dreamweaver, then use our Python webdav client code, ... :^) --Paul

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object versioning
by Jordan B. Baker 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

Since there are Versions, does that mean we'll be able to keep multiple version of an object around? Also perhaps even name/describe these changes so that you could switch between these revisions. This would be like RCS/CVS for Zope. Anything in the works on this front? ------- Jordan B. Baker -- jbb(a)spyderlab.com weaving the web @ http://www.spyderlab.com

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Re: ZSybaseDA undefined symbol: bsd_tcp
by Andrei Pitis 05 Apr '99

05 Apr '99

> This is the error message, anybody any comments? Thanks: > > Invalid connection string: pink panther floyd pubs2 Well, sorry guys, fixed this one too :-) It should have been: "pink panther SYBASE pubs2" i.e. the server name as defined by sybase, not the hostname of the machine hosting the sybase server... Sorry for bothering you, it's just that I have discovered Zope a few days ago, and I was very anxious to have everything installed asap... Andrei

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