June 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Creating a ZClass within a folder
by Aaron Payne 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

Hi all, I am trying to create a zclass instance within a newly added folder. Here is the sequence of events 1. get name from a form, vendor 2. add a folder with id of vendor 3. within the new folder create a CouponProduct The following add method (snipped) puts the zclass instance at the same level as the new folder and not inside of it. Note: merchants is a folder containing all of the vendor folders. The add method is at the same level as the merchant folder. <dtml-with merchants> <dtml-call "merchants.manage_addFolder(vendor,'',1)"> <dtml-with "vendor"> <dtml-with "manage_addProduct['CouponProduct']"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('id',`ZopeTime().timeTime()`)"> <dtml-call "CouponProductZClass_add(_.None, _, noRedirect=1)"> </dtml-with manage_addProduct--> </dtml-with vendor> </dtml-with merchants> Peacefully, Aaron

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Internationalization 2nd post
by Dan Rusch 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

How are my fellow Zopers handling Internationalization, especially text. We have a site that is composed of several hunderd pages. We don't use classes but we have made heavy use of aquistion though. For example we have one back button that is aquired thoughout the site etc etc. Basically if the functionality (or code) is used in more than one place it has been but into a method and aquired. Any thoughts or hints? thanks, DR

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Pointers in zope ??? object1 --> object2
by NABETH Thierry 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

Hello, I am trying to figure out how I can find a way to implement pointers in Zope. In other words, I would like to be able that the content of an attribute reference another object. object1 --> object2 and say for instance: object1.aaa := object2 and then get this object with object1.aaa I have spent a lot of time, looking for instance how the name space work. I had thought for instance that I would create a string field in which I would store the id of the other object. But the problem, is that I do know how to get the object from this id in the system, unless it belongs to the same namespace. I had also thought that I could store in this field, the url of the object. >From this url, I would then be able to get the object. (since you can call an kind of method by <url-of-the-object>/<mymethod>) But it didn't work. For instance <dtml-with <url-of-the-object>> .... </dtml-with> raise an error. eventually, you can imagine that you can access an object specified in a absulute way by using """"plenty"""" of dtml-with. for instance for accessing the /root/b/c/d/e object, we would use <dtml-with root> <dtml-with b> <dtml-with c> <dtml-with d> <dtml-with e> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> But really this is too complicate, and really can not be implemented. Do you know an answer to this question. I can not believe that this is not possible, given the OO approach of zope, and the fact that it relies on python. Thanks, Thierry Nabeth Research Fellow INSEAD CALT (the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies) <http://www.insead.fr/CALT/>

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PoPy Licence
by Eric Bianchi 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

Dear PoPy and zpopyda users, there has been a lot of discussion lately concerning the GPL issue of PoPy on zope mailing list, python mailing list and even in the Mixadlive itself. We have been thinking a lot since there. On one hand, we are very concerned about using and developing free software available for the community, on the other hand, we want to provide the best product for our user and give them the availability to enjoy popy as much as we do without having licence issue, that's free software... We have developed PoPy to work faster and cleaner and since we are using it, our work get easier than ever. That's why we have chosen to modify licences of PoPy and zpopyda and put them under the LGPL licence. We hope you'll enjoy that for comments and questions please use our mailing list : popy-user(a)lists.mixadlive.com Regards the PoPy team

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comercial products using zope
by Terry Kerr 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

Hi, I am researching using zope as a framework for a product that I am going develop and sell. I will develop a python product for zope. The product will not be open source, so I will only be distributing the byte code .pyc files, and not the source. However I understand that it is possible to decompyle .pyc files back to the source....although I don't know how difficult this is to do successfully. Are there any tricks that I should know about to make this any harder? Basically I want to know if anyone else has used zope for a commercial product b4, and how they did it. Is there anything in particular that I should know about. Should I just rely on a good software license to protect my code? Also...are .pyc files as platform independent as .py files? Any info appreciated. terry -- Terry Kerr (terry(a)adroit.net) Adroit Internet Solutions Pty Ltd (www.adroit.net) Phone: +613 9563 4461 Fax: +613 9563 3856 Mobile: +61 414 938 124

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RE: [Zope] Basic site management using zope and other queries
by Chris McDonough 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

> 1. Can zope do basic site management. for example missing > link checks. say > if we call an object which doesnt exist. can zope show us > where we have > gone wrong.(without actually checking each and every object manually) No. > 2. I have large number of small html documents(17,000). I > want them to go > in a database. can we automate this in zope to be uploaded it in the > database. Yep. Search the mail archives for loadsite.py > > 3. Say, i want to use a zope enable webiste on a non zope > enabld server, > so i need all the objects(e.g. html files) from the database > to come out > as files. can we do this(sort of Zope to non zope convertion) If this is what you want, use Jonothan Farr's LocalFS product. > 4. Which file do i need to upload to the isp end from the programmer > end ,to make the site work. If we have to upload a single > database it > will take a lot of time. is there any incremental upload facility > available. i have only ftp access with my ISP. I'm not sure what you mean. > 5. i need to build a directory like site somewhat like > yahoo!, is there > any toolkit available for it in zope. > I'm not sure. Check the Download section of Zope.org and click on Products.

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RE: [Zope] Embedding authentication in a Zope Website
by Chris McDonough 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

> Chris, > > Thanks for the speedy reply. I appreciate it. > > The questions I have now is how do you: > > 1) give users the opportunity to log in... where do you actually do > authentication? is there a url they must point to? should I > be calling any > python functions, or perhaps writing my own dtml methods to > aquire their > credentials? You protect an object using permissions and roles. Once they hit an object that requires authentication, they'll be prompted to log in. For example, you might want to create a role named 'Bleah' and assign a bunch of users to that role. Then protect a folder 'Foo' by assigning the 'View' permission to the 'Bleah' role. When users navigate to 'Foo', they'll be prompted for a login. If they have the 'Bleah' role, and they enter the proper username/password combo, they'll be permitted access. If they don't have the 'Bleah' role, or if they do not enter a proper username/password combo, they'll be denied access. You may also want to check out the new Zope 2.2 release that has context-sensitive help for most of this stuff via the 'Help' button on the page. > 2) how can you seperate your userlists for your web sites > from your user > list for zope administration, especially considering you will probably > want users to be able to access multiple trees equally? You don't, a user with management privileges (e.g. the "Manager" role) is just another user.. it's just that he/she has mangement privileges while others may not. > Any advice appreciated. In the meantime, I am looking through > as many FAQs > and HowTos as I can find at the main site. The help system is good here too. > > Knight, > > > > The primary way of obtaining the credentials of the > currently logged in > > user is through the AUTHENTICATED_USER attribute of the > REQUEST object, > > ala: > > > > <dtml-unless "REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER.getName() == 'Anonymous'> > > Important stuff > > </dtml-unless> > > Unimportant stuff. > > > > You probably don't want to hardcode too much of this stuff > into DTML, > > this is what permissions assigned to objects and roles > assigned to users > > are for. Read the content manager's guide for more information on > > permissions and roles. > > > > The subject is a big one. I'e never used MySQLuserfolder, > so I can't > > give you much info on that in particular. I assume it operates much > > like the "basic" user folder that comes 'preinstalled' in > the Zope root > > folder, in which case you'll need to read up on AUTHENTICATED_USER. > > Searching the Zope.org site for "AUTHENTICATED" should turn > up a bunch > > of hits (although AUTHENTICATED_USER will probably not because of > > limitations in our cataloging engine). The How-tos that you'll find > > through this search are probably good for this sort of > thing as well. > > > > knight wrote: > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Please bear with me, I'm still slightly new to Zope, but > I'm pretty up on > > > the structure, miscellaneous administration, etc. I'm > also beginning to do > > > well with Python development. > > > > > > I wanted to start adding authentication to my site via > HTML forms, and I > > > saw mysqlUserFolder. There aren't any real docs that come > with it. More or > > > less, a README that explains the feature set of the > Product is all that it > > > has. > > > > > > Installing mysqlUserFolder wasn't the problem. The problem is now > > > dynamically outputting content based upon login > information. How do I > > > manipulate who is logged in? How do I check to see if a > user is logged in, > > > etc? Do I need to read some plain zope authentication > docs? If so, please > > > point me in the right direction. > > > > > > What do I embed in my DTML in order to check for authentication? > > > > > > I really appreciate the help... The Zope documentation is > still a little > > > out of order, and slightly confusing to navigate. > > > > > > Knight > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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] TAG for file date
by CURTIS David 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

Greeting, Thanks Tino for your reply, but alas I am still not able to achieve what I want. Perhaps I do not understand what you are teaching. I am trying to display the date of a document in an HTML document. Here is what I tried. Step 1.) CREATE A FILE OBJECT I used the menu to create a file object. ID=GuideFile Content Type = Application/ Precondition = BLANK Step 2.) ADD CODE TO HTML FILE I tried to add <dtml-var "GuideFile.bobobase_modification_time"> But I do not get an output displayed!!! I tried to make it a paragraph, bold etc, but no luck. Although I do not get an error from Zope it does not work correctly. I am using the latest version of Zope 2.1.6. If you see where I failed, please let me know. Thank you in advance for any information. :-) >>> tino(a)wildenhain.de 06/20/00 02:52AM >>> CURTIS David wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have a database file that gets copied via a cron job at night. I would to display the new the new file date in an htlm document using Zope. What I would like is a tag that displays the date of a specific file. Is there such a dynamic tag? I am thinking something like <File-tag>copied-file</File-tag> > Any help would be apprechiated. > actually it is <dtml-var "fileobject.bobobase_modification_time"> where fileobject is your actual object. HTH Tino Wildenhain _______________________________________________ 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] TAG for file date
by Tino Wildenhain 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

CURTIS David wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have a database file that gets copied via a cron job at night. I would to display the new the new file date in an htlm document using Zope. What I would like is a tag that displays the date of a specific file. Is there such a dynamic tag? I am thinking something like <File-tag>copied-file</File-tag> > Any help would be apprechiated. > actually it is <dtml-var "fileobject.bobobase_modification_time"> where fileobject is your actual object. HTH Tino Wildenhain

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DCOracle on AIX
by Friedrich, Robin K 20 Jun '00

20 Jun '00

Hi guys, I know this isn't Zope related but this list is the closest thing I know of. We are attempting to get DCOracle 1.3.0 working on our IBM AIX 4.2 platform talking to Oracle 8.1.5 and we are running into a problem. We can get things to compile into the shared object extension fine but it abruptly fails when we attempt a Connect() call. No exception, no core dump, just exits. Questions: 1) Is the code known to work on AIX/Oracle8 ? 2) If so can you give us some pointers or names of folks who have it working? 3) If not can you provide some things to try to help us track down the root cause? TIA Any help would be appreciated. Robin Friedrich Flight Operations Reinvent United Space Alliance

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