May 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Discussion board with e-mail notification?
by Paul Browning 24 May '00

24 May '00

Hi. I need a quick fix. The Confera Product I'm using offers a "Notify me via email of responses to this message" check box if a MailHost object is present in the folder BUT doesn't actually work .... (for me anyway). Question 1: Anyone fixed this or got it working anyway? Question 2: Is there a Zope product that offers a discussion board with working e-mail notification? Many TIAs. Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning(a)bris.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/

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Feedback Requested: Editor Applet for Zope?
by Heiko Stoermer 24 May '00

24 May '00

Hi all, I've been working with Zope for quite some time now, and one point that always slows me down is DTML or SQL source editing in the well-known wonderful textboxes. You all like them... My question: Do you like the idea of having a slim java-based editor applet instead of the textarea? (NO, not a 400k editor with WYSIWYG preview and an exotic scripting engine - it's supposed to be _very_ slim) Please give me feedback on this, because if the community wants such a thing, I might start working on it. Thanks in advance, Heiko -- heiko.stoermer(a)innominate.de innominate AG networkingpeople fon: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de

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Running multiple instances of Zope with SSL
by Graham Chiu 24 May '00

24 May '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm thinking of doing this ( on an NT box ), and was wondering what the easiest way to do this was ... Roxen? Apache? NT Server? - -- Regards, Graham Chiu gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.php Powered by Interbase and Zope -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBOSr0l7TRdIWzaLpMEQIG5gCgvGbsLu2xIGHANQA0xqpIkFFtKHsAoM+A EWryGQvuKA2WOmNNKD/1IXk7 =63Xp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Really dumb newbie question
by Andy Gates 24 May '00

24 May '00

This one is so dumb you'll be laughing, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to evaluate an IF. That's all. I have a variable called Action that's a string, and it can be null, "Add", "Update" etc. I try something along the lines of: <dtml-if action == "add"> blah </dtml-if> and whatever I try, I get "Invalid attribute name, "action", for tag <dtml-if Action=="add">" Assuming that I'm not just cursed by the Zope Gods, what am I doing wrong? Yeesh, I feel dumb. ---------------------- Andy Gates, Learning and Research Technology Andy.Gates(a)bristol.ac.uk - ICQ#74362415

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Re: [Zope] Some newbie questions
by Stephan Richter 24 May '00

24 May '00

Well, reading your mail tells me that you are looking at Zope for the first time today. :) You have the typical Zope newbie syndrom, but that will quickely change if you just spent a little bit more time. :) What can you do with REQUEST? RESPONSE? AUTHORIZED_USER? REQUEST - contains all cookies, form data and HTTP variables. You can see what it contains using <dtml-var REQUEST>. It acts like a python dictionary. RESPONSE - allows you to send non HTML HTTP responses, like setting cookies or sending redirects. >It looks like when you say <dtml-var "something"> it's plain >Python. What's the context? What do I need to do to call some function Yes, everything inside " " is a Python expression. It is evaluated and the result is then returned and displayed. >in a product class? What about a function in a class under some other >folder (ie. corresponding to some arbitrary URL)? > > From a product class function, is there a way to do a server redirect? I am confused. To better understand Zope, download all the guides and read them. When you are done, read them again. Then you should start playing around, trying simple tasks. Here is what happened to me: The first day I sat around and wrote 5 lines of code. I had no clue. The second day I wrote some samples and started on a Web site. The third day, I had a complete user management system, a message board and a news section implemented (back then I did not know about all the existing products for Zope.) >What should I use for managing users (seems to be GUF, LoginManager, maybe >others)? How about a threaded message board? There seem to be a number >of products planning not to continue from their current codebase. I use UserDB right now and it works fine for me. But I have read many times that GUF is good. >Can anyone explain ZClasses? Where's all the code? Is that the future of >Zope? There is a guide to ZClasses as well as a tutorial published by beehive. >Just hoping to find the road. Thanks a lot! Me too, but I am sure you will. Feel free to contact me any time. :) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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Article: Zope - a Swiss Army Knife for the Web?
by Paul Browning 24 May '00

24 May '00

I'm a bit shy about this article amongst hardened Zopistas as it shows that I'm only just reaching the steep part of the learning cliff having wandered through the gentler foothills over the last year. The article was written at the end of 1999 and has yet to appear in print (and is dating rapidly). So I'm casting etiquette aside and broadcasting its whereabouts generally. It will not give Zopistas any new insights but it might help them in the cause of persuading others on board (which was my motivation for writing the article in the first place). A pointer is now at: http://www.zope.org/Members/glpb Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning(a)bris.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/

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Some newbie questions
by Adam Clark 24 May '00

24 May '00

I think what I really need is a reference: What can you do with REQUEST? RESPONSE? AUTHORIZED_USER? It looks like when you say <dtml-var "something"> it's plain Python. What's the context? What do I need to do to call some function in a product class? What about a function in a class under some other folder (ie. corresponding to some arbitrary URL)? >From a product class function, is there a way to do a server redirect? What should I use for managing users (seems to be GUF, LoginManager, maybe others)? How about a threaded message board? There seem to be a number of products planning not to continue from their current codebase. Can anyone explain ZClasses? Where's all the code? Is that the future of Zope? Just hoping to find the road. Thanks a lot! Adam

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Re: [Zope] FYI: Documentation
by Josh Robb 24 May '00

24 May '00

Can/Should/Will this documentation be avaliable on the Zope.org (or zdp.zope.org) site.

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Re: [Zope] LocalFS Question
by Tres Seaver 24 May '00

24 May '00

Jim Sanford <snafford(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Does anyone out there know how I can prevent LocalFS from > translating CR/LF pairs in a text file to LFs when serving up > the file? > > Or will I need to "massage" it in Zope before sending it? > > In this case the files are Windows/DOS batch files. > > They will not run with the CR/LFs replaced with LFs. Assuming that the files are truly stored with the CRLF endings (as distinct from Jonothan Farr's hypothesis that they have all been canonicalized to end in LF), you need to get LocalFS to 'open()' the batch files in binary mode, e.g., if string.lower( filename[:-4] ) == '.bat': return open( filename, 'b' ) else: return open( filename ) Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org

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Re: [Zope] ZClass acting up?
by Erik Enge 24 May '00

24 May '00

Tres Seaver <tseaver(a)palladion.com> writes: > If you fill out the ID and press 'Add', le voilà! Yeah, your right! But that still means I need to do some hacking about, and me and my semantics does not like that ;-) > (Actually it looks like a duplicate of #811). How can I see number 811, it just shows up to 600 and something?

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