November 2000 - Zope

Re: [Zope] Editing images
by Dieter Maurer 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Anders Eriksson writes: > I have some images in an image folder within Zope. Now I need to edit > these images but I can't figure out how? > > I guess that the images are withing the Data.fs but how to get them > out? If I do an export they wind up in a .zexp which I don't now how > to expand outside of Zope... One option would be FTP access. There are FTP file system tools out there. They allow you to "mount" FTP hierarchies into your local file system and work with the files as though there were local files. Dieter

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Re: [Zope] XMLDcoument setAttribute error
by Dieter Maurer 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Matt writes: > I have an external method like the following > > def make_an_element(self,REQUEST): > new_elem = self.createElement(REQUEST.new_elem_name) Use: new_elem = self.createElement(REQUEST.new_elem_name).__of__(self) > new_elem.setAttribute('hello','there') > self.appendChild(new_elem) > > I call this on an XMLdocument root node and get the following error at > the setAttribute stage : > > Error Type: AttributeError > Error Value: aq_base Dieter

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Re: [Zope] querying status in zsql
by Dieter Maurer 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Rik Hoekstra writes: > A short explanation: sql queries return a result object (so does ZCatalog > btw), which you can't address directly in DTML (or at least I wouldn't know > how ;-) If it the result object is empty it won't have a (sequence) start > in a dtml-in. This is the same code SearchInterfaces uses for returning a > 'this query has no results'. "Result" objects behave like sequences. You can ask for their length ("_.len") and access the elements by subscription("[i]"). Of cause, you can use them in "dtml-in". Dieter

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Win9x Patch found.
by Brendon Grunewald 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

I found a version of Patch for Win9x The site is Japanese, but you can make out the download and ftp signs :-) http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/win95/prog/s0015025.html Regards, Brendon ------------------ 70South: the No.1 source for Antarcticles. For the latest news and views on Antarctica visit : http://www.70south.com

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Editing images
by Anders Eriksson 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Hello zopistas, I have some images in an image folder within Zope. Now I need to edit these images but I can't figure out how? I guess that the images are withing the Data.fs but how to get them out? If I do an export they wind up in a .zexp which I don't now how to expand outside of Zope... Please help!! -- Best regards, Anders mailto:ame@swipnet.se Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else. - David Knuth

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W9x Patch program
by Brendon Grunewald 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Sometime ago I got help to patch the Mime.py using Linux. Thanks. Does such a program / utility exist for Win9x? Where can one find it? Regards, Brendon ------------------ 70South: the No.1 source for Antarcticles. For the latest news and views on Antarctica visit : http://www.70south.com

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Editing images
by Michael Blewett 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Why not just ftp them out? Zope has built-in ftp. For more information look at: http://www.zope.org/Members/mblewett/ZopeFTP Hope this helps... - Michael >Message: 14 >Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:00:48 +0100 >From: Anders Eriksson <ame(a)swipnet.se> >Reply-To: Anders Eriksson <ame(a)swipnet.se> >To: zope(a)zope.org >Subject: [Zope] Editing images >Hello zopistas, >I have some images in an image folder within Zope. Now I need to edit >these images but I can't figure out how? >I guess that the images are withing the Data.fs but how to get them >out? If I do an export they wind up in a .zexp which I don't now how >to expand outside of Zope... >Please help!! >-- >Best regards, >Anders mailto:ame@swipnet.se >Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. >Art is everything else. - David Knuth > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Blewett Computer Support Mgr - Biological Sciences Monash University (Clayton Campus) Victoria Australia 3168 "I'm out of my mind at the moment, but feel free to leave a message..."

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problems reading tar file
by Robert Rottermann 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Hi there, I have problems reading tar files when I download them from the zope web site. I am working on a NT2000 box. Winzip does recognize the tarfiles as compressed archives but balks when trying to open them. Is there an other utility out there I can use to deal with these files? Thanks for your tips Robert

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Please Tell Me...
by Ben Ocean 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Hi; I'm new. I can see Zope will help me on larger projects, but what if I want to allow the owner of a small Web site (under 200 pages) that I develop the ability to edit text and photos? Is this the right application, or is Zope overkill? If so, any recommendations on a content manager? TIA, BenO

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Where to store my data?
by Randall Kern 11 Nov '00

11 Nov '00

I've just started playing with Zope again, and this time I'm going to spend enough time with it to actually decide if it's crazy or I am :) My project currently consists of a bunch of community "modules" written in PHP using MySQL as a data store. Each modules PHP code produces an XML page, by running a bunch of queries in the database, and performing some logic. These XML pages are then processed using XSLT, with a model very similar to Acquisition. I'm getting very tired of the poor language design inherent in PHP, and wanted to start using Python again. (Big reason for doing this work: In the current package, each module is only accessible from a hardcoded URL, such as /links for the Links module, etc. Many of my customers want to change the layout of their site, and in fact maybe have two Links modules, etc.) So far, sounds like Zope would be a great system for me. It would give my customers a good platform to customize their sites, and give me a good platform to build my modules with. Now, short of just doing it and then discovering what I did wrong, I'm hoping to get some advice from the Zope community on how to structure this system. This is a fairly large system, I host about 10 customers per box, serving about 4MM page views. 99% of the pages are dynamic, doing real-time database queries. Some of my first questions: -Is Zope a good choice for this kind of project? -Which is better: Store my content (Forum posts, Links, etc) in ZODB, or a MySQL database? -Build my Product (right term?) in DTML/ZClasses (seems easier for my users to customize?) or build it in Python? -Can I (easily) build this system in 4 layers: Content -- actual low-level storage, rarely customized Logic/Object Representation -- layer used to interact with the content, also rarely customized, although does have configuration options XML (page contents) -- every URL should result in an XML document, containing all the information that will be presented on that page. Written in DTML? XSLT (page rendering) -- the XML documents must be transformed into HTML/etc. These transformations, like the page contents should be inherited; excuse me, acquired. -Simple things should be simple, Complex things should be possible. -- My users should be able to plop a Links module into their site, edit the Properties for that Object, and it works. If they want to change the way Links are categorized, they should be able to, although it'll take a while longer :) Thanks for your Zen, -Randy

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