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[ZGotW] Issue #2 (Open)
by Zope Guru of the Week 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

A new issue of "Zope Guru of the Week" is available: =================================================================== Issue #2 -- How to Import a Static Web Site into Zope =================================================================== Status: Open Zen Level: Novice (1/8) Keywords: Management Interface Submitted by: ithomas christmas(a)mail.sd70.bc.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------- How can one most easily (with the least typing) import an existing static website into Zope? The site contains: * image files * multiple HTML/JavaScript files including internal and external links After doing it by hand for a small site I decided there had to be better way. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply and win undying glory and mondo guru points: http://209.67.167.7/demos/ZGotW/2

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permissions question
by Katrin Kirchner 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

Hi everybody! Is there anyone who can tell me what the permission 'Change configuration' is for? And what about 'Search ZCatalog'. I created a user who didn't have that permission. But that user still can use the search form and search the catalog. Does anyone know how to create users that can't search a catalog? Thanks in advance Katrin

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Re: [Zope] Any news from ZOPE track?
by J C Lawrence 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 02:51:47 +0100 Ryan Hughes <rh(a)n-h.net> wrote: > Which IMAP server? I suspect it could be in the IMAP > parsing/processing code, if it's an IMAP server worldpilot hasn't > been tested against. Which have you tested against? My interest is in UWash and Solid. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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[ZGotW] Issue #1 (Closed)
by Zope Guru of the Week 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

The current issue of "Zope Guru of the Week" has closed: =================================================================== Issue #1 -- DTML Subroutines =================================================================== Status: Closed Zen Level: Novice (1/8) Keywords: DTML Submitted by: Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Suppose you have been happily hacking away at your Zope site, and discover that you are reusing a chunk of DTML over and over::  <dtml-in "objectValues( 'FooType' )"> <tr> <td> <a href="&dtml-id;"><dtml-var id></a> </td>  </tr> </dtml-in> Now, you decide to "refactor" the site to follow the "Once and Only Once":http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnceAndOnlyOnce dictum of "Extreme Programming":http://www.extremeprogramming.org : i.e., you'd like to make this snippet a reusable "subroutine," so that you could make changes to it in just one place. The intent is to be able to reuse the loop, but be able to vary the meta_type(s) being passed to the loop: in one spot, it would be '"FooType"', but in another, it might be '[ "Folder", "DTML Document" ]' [1]. How do you move this code out into a DTML Method and then replace all the cloned copies with calls to that method? [1] *Please pardon my inverting the single/double quotes here: while not valid DTML, it **is** valid Python, and renders correctly as StructeredText.* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviewed by: Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary In spite of having to answer the question before I made the point less than muddy, Ross Lazarus righfully pointed out that, for complicated logic, DTML Methods (the "subroutines" of the question) have distinct disadvantages: * convoluted syntax, because DTML isn't really designed for such cases * a small performance hit (compared to External Methods) Jeff Hoffman answered the orignal intent of the question (as revised after feedback from Ross), showing the correct syntax for passing parameters to a DTML Method using keyword arguments:: <dtml-var "table_of_type(this(), _, type_list = ['FooType'])"> This syntax allows 'table_of_type' to iterate over 'type_list' as passed in by the caller:: <dtml-in "objectValues(type_list)"> <li><a href="&dtml-id;">&dtml-id;</a> </dtml-in> Evan Simpson amended Jeff's example for calling such methods as acquired from elsewhere in the tree without having to munge the namespace stack using 'dtml-with' (in his example, calling a method 'table_of_type' acquired from 'lib':: <dtml-var "lib.table_of_type(target, _, type_list='Folder')"> Congratulations and kudos to all three for their answers! -------------------------------------------------------------------

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ZCatalog and underscore
by Hung Jung Lu 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

The underscore character is considered a valid character for FieldIndex search in ZCatalog. But underscore is considered a word separator in ZCatalog's TextIndex search. This is bad. The thing I am worried about is: if I dig in and change the relevant .c files and regenerate the .so shared library files, for the next release of Zope, I'll have to merge the changes. So, would Digicool be kind enough to include the underscore ("_") as a valid character? thanks, Hung Jung PS- what's is the collector? how do I submit change proposals to Digicool? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [Zope] Link scanning, former: Fitting Zope into publishing process
by J C Lawrence 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:33:17 -0800 (PST) John Eikenberry <jae(a)kavi.com> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ragnar Beer wrote: >> I tried Linbot 1.0 and generally think it's great. The problem I >> had with it was that it would ONLY check remote sites but not my >> zope test machine http://localhost for whatever reason. Only the >> root url was displayed in the report. I tried pylice which is >> also written in python but it also refused to scan my >> localhost. Then I tried to scan from an external machine - same >> thing! The same content server as static pages from apache: >> works. Could that be a zope issue? > I too have had this problem. And it also happens with some of the > other (perl based) link checkers. Try instead pointing it at the FQDN for your machine instead of localhost. Why? Most likely because gethostbyname() doesn't resolve for localhost. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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RE: PGP Signed e-mails.
by Brenton Bills 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

Hi, I am using ( hope to be) SSL for secure connections between customers and a server, what I would like to do is forward credit card transaction information from the Server to a machine behind a firewall at my place of business. I assume the best way to do this is to PGP encode an e-mail and send it to the machine behind the firewall. What I would like to know is this the best method? And secondly has anyone implemented functionality in zope to do this? Thanks, Brenton Bills.

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Re: [Zope] Any news from ZOPE track?
by Anthony Baxter 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

>>> Anthony Baxter wrote > You probably want to turn on imaplib debugging to figure out what's going > on. just as a followup here - the way to do this: import imaplib imaplib.Debug = 5 before you make any connection objects.

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Trapping empty form values ...
by Darran Edmundson 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

Someone recently posted asking how to trap empty form values in ZClass constructors. I stumbled across Zen's How-To "http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes" which contains the answer: "When the [name] form field is left blank, :ignore_empty skips over the variable rather than returning a null string as its value." Note, it seems that it's necessary to also indicate the field type, ie., use varname:string:ignore_empty rather than just varname:ignore_empty which will not work. Cheers, Darran.

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Re: [Zope] Any news from ZOPE track?
by Anthony Baxter 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

>>> Ryan Hughes wrote > > Logins and Passwords are kept in plaintext in this file. > > This can be made optional, but then the sessions are lost if the server > get's stopped. The password is necessary to make authenticate the IMAP > connections. I'm open to any other suggestions? I'm moving my copy of worldpilot over to use SQLSession instead - that way it's all stashed away in a database. Anthony

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