June 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

difference between Squishdot and Portal toolkit
by Tim Wilson 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

Hi everyone, I'm just about to install Zope for the first time and would like to begin developing portal/Slashdot-like for my school district's home page. I'm a science teacher in the district who's being paid this summer to work on the page. I've been lurking on this list for a couple weeks now and reading as much as I can. Zope look awesome! I can't wait to start using it. Before I get to that, I'm wondering if someone could briefly describe the difference between the Zope Portal Toolkit and the Squishdot product. It appears that the ZPT is an official Digital Creations product, while Squishdot is user-created. I know that ZPT requires 2.0.x (which I was going to install anyway). Do the two produts work together at all? I'm trying to figure out where to start. Later, Tim -- Timothy D. Wilson "A little song, a little dance, University of MN, chem. dept. a little seltzer down your wilson(a)chem.umn.edu pants." -Chuckles the Clown Phone: (612) 625-9828 as eulogized by Ted Baxter

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Changing server name
by Perez, Victor 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

I just installed zope for the first time and started to work on a site for my project. The problem is I've installed it with the server name "zope" and now I want to change it so the url don't look like http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/zope.exe. I tried to rename the script file but didn't work (server unavailable). Is there any way to rename the server name without reinstalling? - Atentamente, Victor Perez Muena Automation Support - Port Area (Los Vilos) Los Pelambres Project - Bechtel Chile Ltda. Ext. 8033, Phone: (2) 361-8033 - Fax: (2) 361-8025

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RE: [Zope] WebDAV configuration
by Michel Pelletier 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Thompson [mailto:mary@iserver.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 3:04 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] WebDAV configuration > > > Also, I went to search this e-mail archive, and it's down. > It's the third > time I've tried to search it in 3 days. I wish I could just > look stuff up > there. > Our email archive is not (yet) searchable. If you were using e-groups or any other email archiving site, you should know that we have no control over those systems, if they're down, you should contact them. Coming soon we will have a fully text searchable web-mail archive of the list, and all of our Documentation using ZCatalog, the Zope 2.0 cataloging and searching product. -Michel > Thanks for your help, > Mary Thompson > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Count of folders within another folder?
by Dan York 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

Hi all, I've got a question that I can't solve myself... in Zope (1.10.2), I've got a site listing a bunch of Linux training centers. In the root folder, I want to include in one of my DTML Documents, a count of all of the subfolders inside of another folder. Root --> Folder (called "centers") --> Folder for each individual center Somehow I want a count of how many folders are found inside of the folder called "centers". I've been playing with the "in" and "with" tags, but so far haven't been able to solve my problem. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Dan -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dan York, Certification Program Manager, Linuxcare, Inc. dyork(a)linuxcare.com http://www.linuxcare.com/ 415-740-4519 mobile, 603-268-0691 tel, 603-268-0103 fax Linuxcare. At the center of Linux. --------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [Zope] WebDAV configuration
by Brian Lloyd 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

> I want to configure a folder called "Projects" on my Zope > 1.10.3 site for > WebDAV. I got that client program, DAV Explorer, and want to > use it to > connect to Zope. > > It should be pretty simple, right? I can't find any explanations on > configuration on the Zope web site. > > Also, I went to search this e-mail archive, and it's down. > It's the third > time I've tried to search it in 3 days. I wish I could just > look stuff up > there. > > Thanks for your help, > Mary Thompson Mary, WebDAV is not supported for 1.10.3 - it will be supported in 2.0 (and is supported in the 2.0 alphas right now). Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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WebDAV configuration
by Mary Thompson 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

I want to configure a folder called "Projects" on my Zope 1.10.3 site for WebDAV. I got that client program, DAV Explorer, and want to use it to connect to Zope. It should be pretty simple, right? I can't find any explanations on configuration on the Zope web site. Also, I went to search this e-mail archive, and it's down. It's the third time I've tried to search it in 3 days. I wish I could just look stuff up there. Thanks for your help, Mary Thompson

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RE: [Zope] ftp editing methods
by Phillip J. Eby 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

At 09:31 AM 6/29/99 -0400, Michel Pelletier wrote: > >> Amos(a)digicool.com (Amos Latteier) writes: >> > This has been discussed before. There should probably be some better >> > system for sniffing uploaded content and trying to figure >> out what sort >> > of Zope object to create. This could be based on >> > >> > * file extensions >> > * http headers >> > * the content of the uploaded object >> > * Zope preferences >> > >> > This is a fairly complex problem. For example, there should >> be some way >> > for you to specify that uploaded files with a given file extension >> > create instances of a given Z Class. > >This is an interesting proposition, granted, automated FTP tools >probably wouldn't understand to use the command set we set up. For >tools like Emacs however, we could hack the existing lisp code, and >command line tools the user could just use the interface straight up. > >> Another idea would be to make it possible using site exec to set a >> flag, whether or not the files are up- and downloaded with or without >> HTTP-Headers. Then it would be possible, to set a Content-Type >> Header. And I would find it extremely useful, if I could set >> Attributes in those headers too, because I often have documents, which >> need a standard set of attributes and it would be nice, if it were >> possible to edit them together with the content. >> > >This is possible, I don't know how hard it would be to impliment. It >would also involve up coming up with a few of our own Content Types. A way that I solve a similar problem in my ZPublisher-based application engine, is for container-ish things to have a "ClassMaps" attribute (which is a cumulative multimapping of its parents' ClassMaps, plus its local mapping) that maps file name fragments to class information. When I need to know the type of a file, I look up: * The entire filename plus '/' if it's a directory (or a MKCOL/MKDIR type operation) * The filename as is * The longest possible file extension (e.g. ".tar.gz" before ".gz"), with a trailing /, if applicable and then without. * Successively shorter file extensions, with and without the / Proceeding until a match is found. This approach lets me do things like make an entry for "CVS/" so that CVS directories are automatically assigned an appropriate class, and I can distinguish between a name or extension used for a file vs. the same used for a directory. Of course, I'm using this to access an actual filesystem rather than to handle FTP/WebDAV. And in Zope this would be further complicated by the need to manage content types. Last, and worst (from my POV anyway), is that Zope has no way to drop off the extensions so that URL's can remain polymorphic (i.e., an object's name has nothing to do with its type/implementation). In my file-driven engine, object id's do not include the file extension but are resolved polymorphically. If foo.html becomes foo.dtml, the URL is still 'foo' and no part of the system really cares except that object's implementation. Of course, Zope could use the multimapping approach in the opposite way from how I do it, and instead ADD the filename extensions when operating in FTP/WebDAV mode. So 'foo.sql' in that mode is really 'foo' in regular Zope. But I'm probably just muddying the water further at this point, so I'll shut up now. :)

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RE: [Zope] ftp editing methods
by Michel Pelletier 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Bund [mailto:asbund@gmx.de] > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 4:14 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] ftp editing methods > > > Amos(a)digicool.com (Amos Latteier) writes: > > This has been discussed before. There should probably be some better > > system for sniffing uploaded content and trying to figure > out what sort > > of Zope object to create. This could be based on > > > > * file extensions > > * http headers > > * the content of the uploaded object > > * Zope preferences > > > > This is a fairly complex problem. For example, there should > be some way > > for you to specify that uploaded files with a given file extension > > create instances of a given Z Class. > > I've been thinking about it (on the user-level-side) too. I'm far to > new to Zope and Python to try to implement anything, but here are some > ideas: > > Use 'site exec' to provide commands of the form 'If the file has > extension foo, it's a bla' or 'All files from now on should be > interpreted as bar'... > This is an interesting proposition, granted, automated FTP tools probably wouldn't understand to use the command set we set up. For tools like Emacs however, we could hack the existing lisp code, and command line tools the user could just use the interface straight up. > Another idea would be to make it possible using site exec to set a > flag, whether or not the files are up- and downloaded with or without > HTTP-Headers. Then it would be possible, to set a Content-Type > Header. And I would find it extremely useful, if I could set > Attributes in those headers too, because I often have documents, which > need a standard set of attributes and it would be nice, if it were > possible to edit them together with the content. > This is possible, I don't know how hard it would be to impliment. It would also involve up coming up with a few of our own Content Types. -Michel > Just my 2c... > > Stefan. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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RE: [Zope] Can't configure configuration
by Michel Pelletier 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Canary [mailto:rwcanary@ohiocounty.net] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 9:40 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Can't configure configuration > > > Sure thing. Here is the Builder code. > > -----Start code----------------------------------- >  > >  >  >  >  > > Congratulations! You have created a page from template. > >  > > ------End of Code------------------------------------ > 'personal/nrfortener' is not legal syntax. manage_clone wants an object as it's first argument. The syntax here is pretty much Python. From the *web* your object many be (relative to this script) in 'personal/nrfortener' but from the perspective of the code, it's probably:  -Michel

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RE: [Zope] Sessions needed
by TFE MMS JARVIS JOHN 29 Jun '99

29 Jun '99

It might not satisfy all of your wishes, but... You could use the CookieCutter to do this if you're fine with storing pickled information in cookies. Basically, it pickles a dictionary of objects into a cookie and provides an easy-to-use interface for settings and programming. My application involves some complex queries and saves the user's search selections on the client so they don't have to enter them with each session. I quickly ran into the cookie number limit and needed a way to consolidate the information into a single cookie. I didn't want to go all the way building a database to store the data. You can download it from the Zope contributed products page. BTW, there is also a version of the CookieCutter with MD5 checksums for security added by Mark Hays. I got really busy and never updated the version on the Zope Contrib page. I owe Mark an apology for that. Sorry! If it's ok with the DC guys, should I post it separately? I don't know how this is usually done. Anyway, give it a lookover--it's an easy read ;^) John Jarvis > -----Original Message----- > From: michel(a)digicool.com [SMTP:michel@digicool.com] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 11:46 AM > To: Frank Buhr > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Sessions needed > > Frank Buhr <buhr(a)kogs1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes: > > > Hi, <SNIP> > > > Has anyone build a nice Zope product which does this? > > > > I believe there is a product somewhere out there that lets you > manipulate cookies in the browser to store some small amount of state > (something like 4K) on the client. I believe it was called > CookieCutter. This could be useful for your short term goals. > Perhaps the author could chime in? > <SNIP> > -Michel > > > > > > > > > Frank > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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