June 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Zope admin/backup question
by dillera＠isc.upenn.edu 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Backing up Data.fs everynight--- is it in a usable state if it is backed up while Zope is running? I haven't actually tested the restored Data.fs yet, I wanted to get some feedback first. Also, are the Data.fs.in and Data.fs.lock files necessary for restore or 'moving' a Zope install? I have already just moved the Data.fs file over to a virgin Zope install and it seems to be working OK. -andy diller

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Documentation Chat!
by ethan mindlace fremen 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Zopistas! Amos Latteier and Michel Pelletier will be on #zope Tuesday, 19:00 EST June 06th, to talk about the state of documentation in zope. More information is availiable at: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Chats/ Be there or be square. ~ethan

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Can't edit saved file
by Jilani Khaldi 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

Hi, I can't edit modified and saved files and everytime I open the folder and press the edit tab I see: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <h2><dtml-var title_or_id></h2> <p> This is the <dtml-var id> Document. </p> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> As it was the first time I create it. I am sure the file are saved on the server, because I can see them with the browser but I can't get them into the Zope editor. I am trying for hours and hours but without success. What is the trick? Zope is really difficult to manage :( . I am give it its last chance! -- <jk> ___________________________________________________ http://space.tin.it/scuola/jkhaldi FreeBSD ~ The Power to Serve

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Re: [Zope] E-Commerce solution using Python and Zope.
by Terry Kerr 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

Graham Chiu wrote: > > > >these problems were fixed...it was only a problem initially caused by an > >upgrade. > > > > Hi, > > A couple of other things. On your front page, the non-hilighted 'demo' > image is broken. If you go to www.adroit.com there are more broken images. > You may not be seeing them if they're in your cache. > Also, your shopping cart is still broken. > > Try this > > 1. select an image and place into cart. > 2. go to check out > 3. don't enter any details and click on buy > 4. It then asks for credit card details - when it shouldn't really allow you > this far > 5. Then just keep backing out and the cart empties out :-( > > I downloaded the latest checkout but haven't had to a chance to see where > the bug is. > Ok...I found the bug that allows you to buy without entering any details I can fix it. Yes, after you have entered the checkout, you cannot back out. This was just overlooked...it will be fixed. > > Otherwise it looks quite good, though I would prefer a solution that uses a > relational database to save data. ( My own Zope Ecommerce site has about > 24,000 items which would be a bit painful to add items using a through the > web interface. ) > We didn't use a relational database because it is way too is too complex for the intended use of the product. The idea behind e-tailer was to have an ecommerce product which is extremely simple and quick to setup. Setting up a shop is as simple as adding an e-tailer from the manage screen of a folder. It takes less that 5 minutes to have the shop fully setup and ready to go and accepting secure credit information. I don't know of any other ecommerce products that are that easy to setup. Besides, there are no easy ways to manipulate an SQL backend like we do with the e-tailer catalog. Things like adding and remove product properties, and giving properties to categories that all the products within that category will aquire, and having products and categories aquiring template styles, etc. This is all very difficult if not impossible to acheive with a flat relational database. We never intended for e-tailer to hold 24000 items! Although i dont see any problem with this. We have done some tests with over 50000 cataloged items in a zodb and searching was fine. I agree that adding 24000 items through a web interface would be painful ;-) We need to create a tool that can upload items from other storages so that this kind of process can be speed up. Having said all that, we are looking at possibly integrating a backend relational database. Any more feedback is greatly appreciated! ;-) terry > > --- > Graham Chiu > http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.php > http://www.compkarori.com/dynamo -- The HomeBuilt Dynamo > http://www.compkarori.com/dbase -- The dBase Bulletin > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Terry Kerr (terry(a)adroit.net) Adroit Internet Solutions Pty Ltd (www.adroit.net) Phone: (03) 9563 4461 Fax: (03) 9563 3856 Mobile: 0414 938 124

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Re: [Zope] ZOPE, Xemacs, html-mode, & indentation.
by Skip Montanaro 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

>> So the question is, how do I turn on auto-indent in xemacs for dtml >> code? Does anyone have a mode specially for this? You should be able to define an html-mode-hook that goes something like (setq html-mode-hook (function (lambda () (turn-on-auto-fill)))) -- Skip Montanaro, skip(a)mojam.com, http://www.mojam.com/, http://www.musi-cal.com/ "We have become ... the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role... We may not be suited to it, but here we are." - Stephen Jay Gould

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Re: [Zope] DCOracle hit by new [].append() behavior?
by Justin Sheehy 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

Luis Cortes <lcortes(a)pollak.com> writes: > >From what I understand ( reading what has changed in Python 1.6 ), you can make > the arguements a tuple and you should be okay. like so: > > out.append( (buf,dbsize,dbtype,ind,alen,arcode, f) ) Yes, I understand what sorts of things need to change and how to change them. However, it was DCOracle code, not mine, that had this bug. I was simply asking if someone had already made the appropriate changes to DCOracle. If not, I'll make them myself. I don't know if that particular bit of code in ociCurs.py is the only thing in DCOracle that is affected by this, and figured that I'd see if anyone else had tracked it down yet. -Justin

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RE: [Zope] ZOPE, Xemacs, html-mode, & indentation.
by Chris McDonough 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

I don't know about xemacs, but gnu emacs has indented-text-mode M - x indented-text-mode > -----Original Message----- > From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip@mojam.com] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 3:28 PM > To: jiva(a)devware.com > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] ZOPE, Xemacs, html-mode, & indentation. > > > > >> So the question is, how do I turn on auto-indent in > xemacs for dtml > >> code? Does anyone have a mode specially for this? > > You should be able to define an html-mode-hook that goes > something like > > (setq html-mode-hook > (function > (lambda () > (turn-on-auto-fill)))) > > -- > Skip Montanaro, skip(a)mojam.com, http://www.mojam.com/, > http://www.musi-cal.com/ > "We have become ... the stewards of life's continuity on > earth. We did not > ask for this role... We may not be suited to it, but here we are." > - Stephen Jay Gould > > _______________________________________________ > 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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DCOracle hit by new [].append() behavior?
by Justin Sheehy 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

I have successfully built DCOracle 1.3.1b1 under Python 1.6a2, and connected to an Oracle database. However... >>> cursor1.execute('select * from sometable') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/home/justin/py/DCOracle/ociCurs.py", line 299, in execute r = self._execute(params__, kw) File "/home/justin/py/DCOracle/ociCurs.py", line 241, in _execute out=self._describe(self._ft) File "/home/justin/py/DCOracle/ociCurs.py", line 201, in _describe out.append(buf,dbsize,dbtype,ind,alen,arcode, f) TypeError: append requires exactly 1 argument; 7 given >>> Looks to me like DCOracle doesn't comply to the definition of [].append(), and has thus been bitten by Guido's changes to make this behavior more strictly enforced. Has anyone already done the necessary patches, or shall I do it myself? -Justin

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RE: [Zope] is WebDAV a security hole?
by Brian Lloyd 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

> Thanx for an informative response! > > Btw I tried WebDAV vs. www.zope.org and that site refused the > connection > attempt. > Is there some obvious setting that I can use to disable > WebDAV, since I > don't need it (as far as I know;) DAV won't work for zope.org because it runs behind apache and we've never done the incantation apache requires to let cgi-ish processes handle their own DAV requests. As far as disabling DAV support, there's no real way to do that (except for running behind apache or another server that interferes with DAV requests by default). This really shouldn't be a problem - the extended HTTP methods that provide DAV support all basically have Zope api corollaries, so the DAV methods are protected by the analogous permissions. For example: PROPFIND -> manage properties PROPPATCH -> manage properties DELETE -> delete objects MKCOL -> Add folders ...and so on. GET, POST and PUT are used by DAV exactly as in the HTTP spec, so if you can "download" something via DAV then you could also have gotten it with your normal non-DAV aware browser. Hope this helps! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope LDAP Browser
by Pierre-Julien Grizel 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

Hi, I wrote in my spare time a LDAP browser with Zope. You can try it at www.xlogx.org/Zygopetale (it's available in french & english). You can try it with the default parameters or with an LDAP database of your own (with write access ?...). Please don't rely on my server's speed, it's hidden behind a 64k ISDN connexion. BTW, if someone wants to host it with a better sever, I do agree ! It took... say... 20 hours to learn LDAP and to build the whole tool (with its current limitations). Zope is actually a very very very powerful web server. P.-J.

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