January 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

More REQUEST.set not incrementing SUCCESS!
by Jerry.Spicklemire＠IFLYATA.COM 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Thanks to all the folks who responded with a bunch of good ides. The prize for the most appropriate solution for this particular problem goes to Jim Sanford, and here's the final code that did the trick : <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('z_t',_.string.split(_.str(ZopeTime()))[0])"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_all',_.string.atoi('0'))"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_logged',_.string.atoi('0'))"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_today',_.string.atoi('0'))"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_not',_.string.atoi('0'))"> <dtml-var u_all> <dtml-var u_logged> <dtml-var u_today><br> <dtml-in count_users_logged> <dtml-let t_all="u_all+1"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_all',t_all)"> </dtml-let> <dtml-if logged_on> <dtml-let t_logged="u_logged+1"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_logged',t_logged)"> </dtml-let> <dtml-if "_['z_t']==_.string.split(_.str(_.DateTime(logged_on)))[0]"> <dtml-let t_today="u_today+1"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_today',t_today)"> </dtml-let> </dtml-if> <dtml-else> <dtml-let t_not="u_not+1"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('u_not',t_not)"> </dtml-let> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> It looks (to me) like the reason this works, and other permutations failed, is that <dtml-let> bahaves slightly differently than <dtml-call "REQUEST.set">, as far as persistence of values. I'm not sure if this way of getting there suffers from the data.fs bloat problem, but I'll be watching to see if there's anything detectable. Of course the SQL Gurus out there will be thinking that a series of "select count queries might be faster, but we need to track new logins, which requires checking every row every day, so why not let Zope handle it. Thanks again, Jerry S.

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Re: [Zope-dev] ASP vs Zope vs PHP vs ..?
by Hung Jung Lu 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

>But, I'm uncomfortable with loosing touch with an actual HTML/ASP document >in an actual file system. I feel weird about the URL that Zope presents - >there's no simple file name reference, like, http://www.abc.com/mypage.asp >or http://www.abc.com/mypage2.html. Sorry, but my web experience expects >that. I guess there is a SiteAcess product that allows serving from file system, but it requires a bit of work: you'll have to write some external python method. In the near future, they will be releasing Zope 2.2 with virtual hosting capability, and it will be slightly easier to serve from file system. >2. How do you create/maintain the look of the site? Doesn't seem feasible >using the Zope control panel. I prefer using HomeSite (Allaire) for coding >HTML, ASP and any text file. MacroMedia DreamWeaver for complex HTML >design/layout. And I like using MS SQL Server (although I could be >converted..) to support data-driven web sites. How do I integrate these >products with Zope (if at all). The HTML page editing/layout features of >Zope are not clear to me. My personal opinion is that Zope should not get too deep into the business of HTML file editing: it will never be able to compete with applications like DreamWeaver. Virtual hosting is the way to go: let content developer use DreamWeaver to do whatever they want to do, and then let the programmers write methods to strip the headers, insert additional contents (dynamically), catalog the files, etc. In short, right now it's tricky to server files from local file system. But soon enough (a few months?) the situation should be better. Hung Jung ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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[Fwd: Questions on your ZmySQLDA Tutorial]
by Don Undeen 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

This is an email I sent to Alan Pogrebinschi, but everyone on this list has been so helpful, I thought I'd throw this out to the list. Thanks in advance.

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RE: [Zope] Restart bug *and* shutdown bug
by Michel Pelletier 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Let me verify for my sanity, you guys both tried running your browser on another machine right? That appears to have fixed it for me, when I run a browser on a seperate machine the problem does not happen. -Michel > -----Original Message----- > From: Magnus Heino [mailto:magnus@vuab.net] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 9:58 AM > To: Martijn Faassen > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Restart bug *and* shutdown bug > > > > > Any progress on the restart bug front? I am having trouble > with regular > > shutdowns too, not only the previously reported restart weirdness. > > > > When I start the linux binary install with the 'start' > script on RedHat > > 6.1 (with the latest upgrades), I get strange behavior with > 'shutdown' > > in the Control Panel. When I do shutdown, and go back to > the management > > screen, Zope is still running, until I do *another* > shutdown. Sometimes > > I even have to do three shutdowns to get Zope down. This > happens with > > clean Zope 2.1.2 installs. > > > > This is really annoying when you're developing products. > The restart bug > > was difficult, but not being able to shut down reliably > makes even my > > workaround unworkable. > > > > So is there any progress on this? Presumably the restart > and shutdown > > problems are related. Last I saw it was discarded as a RedHat 5.2 > > specific bug, but it definitely isn't. At least not here. > > I have exactly the same problems on RH6.1 and Zope 2.1.2 compiled from > source (I also did a cvs checkout yesterday, but it had the same > problems). > > I first thought it was me doing something wrong, since it was my first > attempt to write a product in python, and that it was "broken" almost > all the time. > > > > I also get a lot of > > 2000-01-07T18:09:02 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for > '\000\000\000\000\000\000\002\320' > > is that related, or is that because of the broken product? > > It seems to disappear if I kill zope and all python processes and > restart. > > > > I ended up starting zope with ./start and killing it with ctrl+c > yesterday. I had enough problems trying to understand > zclasses etc than > to bother about if things got reloaded all the time... > > > /Magnus Heino > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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RE: [Zope] AUTHENTICATED_USER?
by Michel Pelletier 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Guy Davis [mailto:davis@arc.ab.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:49 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] AUTHENTICATED_USER? > > > I am trying to disallow anonymous access for all but a handful of > domains. This is easy to do with Apache, but how can it be done with > Zope? > > The only thing I could think of was to have the following in the > standard_html_header. > > <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER == 'Anonymous User'" > > {if remote address is acceptable} > {show the true page} > {else show an error message} > <dtml-else> > {show the true page} > </dtml-if> > > However the above expression never evaluates to true even when > <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> shows 'Anonymous User' on the > same page. That is because AUTHENTICATED_USER is an object whose __str__() method prints the user name as a string. This is not the same thing as the user object being *equal* to a string. > If I try to use string.find(), Zope complains that > AUTHENTICATED_USER is > a bad arguement. Because it's type is not string, it is a user object. Compare 'Anonymous User' with AUTENTICATED_USER.getUserName() -Michel

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Re: AUTHENTICATED_USER?
by Andrey V Khavryutchenko 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Hi, Guy! >>>>> "GD" == Guy Davis writes: GD> <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER == 'Anonymous User'" > Use <dtml-if "_.str(AUTHENTICATED_USER)=='Anonymous User'"> AUTHENTICATED_USER is an object, not just a string -- SY, Andrey V Khavryutchenko http://www.kbi.kiev.ua/~akhavr Software & SPI Engineer Visit my site Shick's Law: There is no problem a good miracle can't solve.

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AUTHENTICATED_USER?
by Guy Davis 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

I am trying to disallow anonymous access for all but a handful of domains. This is easy to do with Apache, but how can it be done with Zope? The only thing I could think of was to have the following in the standard_html_header. <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER == 'Anonymous User'" > {if remote address is acceptable} {show the true page} {else show an error message} <dtml-else> {show the true page} </dtml-if> However the above expression never evaluates to true even when <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> shows 'Anonymous User' on the same page. If I try to use string.find(), Zope complains that AUTHENTICATED_USER is a bad arguement. Is there someway to salvage what I'm doing, or better yet is there a simpler mechanism to achieve this goal? Thanks. -- Guy Davis mailto:davis@arc.ab.ca (403) 210-5334 Alberta Research Council

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SQL LIKE
by cesare＠planningsrl.it 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Hi all! I would like to do a form in which the user can edit few words (separated by a blank character). When the user press the "Search" button I would like to use those words to search in a field of a table. I have done it but I have two problems: 1) I use sqlgroup but I can use it just with the = and not with the LIKE statement select * from annunci <dtml-sqlgroup where> <dtml-sqltest Parola column=testo type=string optional> </dtml-sqlgroup> the result is: select * from annunci where Parola="Word" but I would like this result: select * from annunci where Parola LIKE "%Word%" 2) I am not able to divide the words in more conditions. I would like the following result: select * from annunci where testo LIKE "%FirstWord%" and testo LIKE "%SecondWord%" Thank you in advance, Cesare Cesare Raoss Planning srl Via Bolzano 45 38014 Gardolo (TN) cesare(a)planningsrl.it http://www.planningsrl.it

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RE: [Zope] Zope running on LinuxPPC
by Michel Pelletier 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Darcy Clark [mailto:darcyc@engin.umich.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:24 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Zope running on LinuxPPC > > > I'm curious - has anyone compiled Zope to run on LinuxPPC ? I remember hearing it could, but I've never done it. > Should be > do-able right ? Absolutely. All of Zope's C code is ANSI and strictly Python module extensions, if LinuxPPC can compile python, it can compile Zope. If it doesn't, it's probably because there isn't a Python LinuxPPC makefile. Easy enough to fix. -Michel

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employment opportunity
by Sam Gendler 12 Jan '00

12 Jan '00

Impossible, Inc., a full service Internet design company, is looking to hire a talented, innovative web applications developer into a full time position. We specialize in highly interactive, high performance internet and intranet web applications for clients that include Cisco Systems, Time, CNN, the United Nations, and others. We are located in beautiful, sunny Santa Barbara, CA. We are looking for an engineer with several years of experience building applications on the web. Our primary platform is currently Zope, but we offer expertise with Cold Fusion, Apache modules, IIS/ASP, PHP, PERL (if we have to), and Java. Additionally, we provide database development in Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Acess, and BerkeleyDB. The position requires advanced Zope expertise, as well as an in-depth understanding of the HTTP protocol. At this time, we also require a reasonable familiarity with the Unix operating environment, preferably Linux. HTML skills are not a priority, but they do come in handy. Most importantly, a willingness and ability to learn new technologies very quickly is desired. Your academic pedigree is not important, and we are happy to hear from you, regardless of the level of your education. Impossible, Inc. is growing exceedingly quickly, and our workplace is currently a fairly high pressure environment. We try to offset that by having a lot of fun and enjoying the work that we do. The position includes stock options in a growing Internet startup, as well as reasonable salary and benefits. Of course, when you work at Impossible, you also get to live in the paradise that is Santa Barbara. If you think that you can contribute to the Impossible team, please send your resume to sgendler(a)impossible.com, or fax to the number listed below. Additionally, I am happy to hear from you by phone. The position is available immediately. --sam ------------------------ Sam Gendler Chief Technology Officer Impossible, Inc. 1222 State St. Suite 250 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 w: 805-560-0508 c: 805-689-1191 f: 805-560-0608

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