May 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

Another Question
by Chad M. Townsend 19 May '99

19 May '99

Bare with, I almost have everything I'll need to get stared. Lets say this is the path: http://www.domain.com/us/fl/miami/weather/index.html How is it possible to have weather/index_html the same template for all the states and citys. Thanks much, this should keep me busy for awhile. -chad

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RE: [Zope] E-Mails
by Michel Pelletier 19 May '99

19 May '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: rheal.dugas(a)can.xerox.com [mailto:rheal.dugas@can.xerox.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 2:55 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] E-Mails > > > I've setup a sql database similar to a guestbook that > customers can fill out. > > What I want to be able to do is search for a ceratain field > in the database and then e-mails a file (ie PDF) or just a > plain text file to all the people that the search found. The > e-mail address is in the database. > > Can anyone help me out? > This will require a variety of tools, an ZSQL method to return a list of email addresses to be mailed to, which will be iterated in an  tag over a  tag which used the <!~--#mime--> tag to attach your file (untested):   To:  From: me(a)here.com  Here's your file.    Note, starting at the boundary tag to the /mime tag it is all one line, otherwise you will introduce unwanted newlines in your mime body which will break it. Also, the mime tag is new in 1.11pr1. Also, I have know idea what the mime type of a pdf file is, I made applcation/adobe-pdf up. -Michel > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Zope under SSL and IE
by reedstrm＠wallace.ece.rice.edu 19 May '99

19 May '99

Just thought I'd let the group know some of the lessons learned from may little project. I've set up a file exchange area to replace a bunch of shared-password FTP accounts (a real security nightmare). To do this, I got Zope running under Apache/mod-SSL (on top of NT - not my choice, but it's working.) I'd posted earlier about some permission problems and comparision issues with the AUTHENTICATED_USER object in the REQUEST. I got around the access by using the get method: REQUEST.get('AUTHENTICATED_USER') instead of: REQUEST['AUTHENTICATED_USER'] and for comparison, I use the name method of that object:  So, all my development has been using Netscape under Linux as a client. So, since it's ready to roll out, I figured I'd better test it a little ;-) First Netscape under NT works - I did discover that the file upload sends a different filename: under linux, it's the bare file name, under NT its the full path. Found a little function called cookID buried in the source of Image.py. It's not exported from the file (i.e. it's not a class method or anything), but I was able to almost cut&paste it: id=filename[max(string.rfind(filename, '/'), string.rfind(filename, '\\'), string.rfind(filename, ':'), )+1:] turn into:     That should work cross platform to strip off the path info, leaving just the last component. The next problem was that (surprise, surprise) IE is buggy. IE4.0 won't handle MIME encapsulated binaries (I suspect it's anything not text/*) going to or from an SSL server. Just plain breaks, complaining that the server broke off the connection, but there's nothing in the server error logs. I suspect IE4 drops the ball, and blames the server. So, I just installed and tested IE5.0 to see how it does. (2 hour download - and I'm on a t3!) It's better, although it does get confused about when it is and is not actually leaving the secure server. At least it does allow binary files (like Word docs!) to be uploaded and downloaded (in fact, it displays the Word docs directly in the browser) So, long story short, Zope rocks, I've closed a gapping security hole on the server, and I can tell people to use Netscape instead of IE. Ross -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(a)rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005

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RE: [Zope] A few questions,
by Michel Pelletier 19 May '99

19 May '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Chad M. Townsend [mailto:chad@corp.vcn.net] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 1:48 PM > To: Kevin Dangoor > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] A few questions, > > > > Could you please send me a link to documentation that > describes all of these > 'special' variables, etc. > http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML/DTML-HTML/DTML.html#pgfId- 509225 -Michel > Thanks mucho, > > -chad > >

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E-Mails
by rheal.dugas＠can.xerox.com 19 May '99

19 May '99

I've setup a sql database similar to a guestbook that customers can fill out. What I want to be able to do is search for a ceratain field in the database and then e-mails a file (ie PDF) or just a plain text file to all the people that the search found. The e-mail address is in the database. Can anyone help me out?

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Re: [Zope] Zope vs CVS (Re: [ZDP] OpenContent issues)
by Paul Crowley 19 May '99

19 May '99

Jim Fulton <jim(a)digicool.com> writes: > IMO, a major disadvantage of CVS is that it is mostly "file" > oriented. In many (most) cases, multiple files evolve together. I agree. A cleaner alternative is Josh McDonald's PRCS: http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/prcs.html -- __ \/ o\ paul(a)hedonism.demon.co.uk http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/paul/ \ / /\__/ Paul Crowley Upgrade your legacy NT machines to Linux /~\

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A few questions,
by Chad M. Townsend 19 May '99

19 May '99

I'm new to Zope, so I will have a few questions over the next few weeks. Working my way through all the docs. For example, how might I accomplish this: http://www.domain.com/home/country/state/metro/community/weather/index_html Now I would like weather/index_html to receive the arguments 'country', 'state', 'metro', 'community' so I can feed them to a SQL query. So on the index_html I add a connect to the database and a sql method, but how to I access the PATH_INFO to wind up with a statement like: select * from weather_data where country = '' and state , etc ... Any help to point me in the right direction will be greatly appreciated. -chad

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Mysql connection string?
by alan spector 19 May '99

19 May '99

Hi, I'm new to Zope and was wondering if anyone knew on the add Z mysql connection, what is the format of the database connection string? Alan

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customizing #tree tag
by Oleg Machulski 19 May '99

19 May '99

Hello. It is clear how to create tree hierarchies, based on zope folders structure, but I could not find examples of displaying as tree structures, which are external to zope. For example let us have a relational table LIST_NODES with the following columns: (ID_SELF:INTEGER , ID_PARENT:INTEGER , NAME_SELF:VARCHAR) it is very simple to write SQL methods for retrieving set of children of current node, so -- Best regards Oleg Machulski ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/7671/ mailto:oleg_machulski@geocities.com

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forbid to render Objects
by mitaco＠gmx.net 19 May '99

19 May '99

hi, i test this great Zope at the moment, and there is a littel prob. I want a special background-image. So i put this image into the ZODB (as Image -> Add) and change my standard-Header into : <HTML><TITLE>...</TITLE><BODY Background=" and i get : <HTML><TITLE>...</TITLE><BODY background="<img src="http://localhost:9673/my_back" width="2200" height="2" alt="Background">"> so, i can also write a python-method, but why ? Greetings, Mike

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