August 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Using FTP to connect to Zope server from (g)VIM
by Phil Harris 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hi all, My intellect was piqued recently by a discussion on the list about editors for Zope etc. I remember some people saynig that VIM was good, to which my response was, 'Yeah but there's no FTP built in'. Someone then responded with a few scripts to do it. Well I thought they were a bit cumbersome, so I wrote my own. ftpopen.py and ftpsave.py. If you have a VIM executable with Python support built in then these run from within VIM and allow you to open/save file from/to Zope seamlessly. (I have them on a menu in GVIM for instance) I'll put the files up on my Zope Members bit (http://www.zope.org/Members/philh) along with a few instructions. If anybody can think of any enhancements then please let me know and I'll see if I can work them in. I hope these will be useful to someone. See ya Phil phil.harris(a)zope.co.uk

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Silly send mail problem
by wai＠mahirnet.com 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

Hi all, I had a sendmail problem, whenever I send out a mail from zope, it always contain an empty "To" ,"From" and "Subject", but I was able to get the body of the mail, anyone got this problem before ?? I'm using Zope 2.1.6 on NT and the mail server is from Lotus, and the form processor syntax as below : <dtml-sendmail smtphost="mail.xyz.com" mailto="wai(a)xyz.com" mailfrom="wai(a)xyz.com" Subject="Testing from my machine"> mail body </dtml-sendmail> Thanks. Cheers Wai

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Re: [Zope] using zope for broadcast e-mail messages...
by Anthony Baxter 23 Nov '00

23 Nov '00

>>> chas wrote > Zope's dtml-sendmail tag is excellent - it makes sending > e-mail a breeze. It reminds me of a similar tag that > Cold Fusion added and which I've noticed many sites use > for sending out customized newsletters (the "Allaire > ColdFusion Application Server" header being the giveaway). > > > Now, doing the same in Zope, I can loop over the user > profiles in our database to extract name, e-mail, and > even customize the content of the newsletter as follows : > > > <dtml-in ZSQL_Select_User_Profiles> > >  > To: <dtml-var firstname> <<dtml-var email>> > From: robot <robot(a)ourdomain.com> > Subject: <dtml-var random_inanity> > > Dear <dtml-var firstname>, > > blah blah content (also dependent on his/her likes/preferences) > >  > > </dtml-in> > > > Nothing groundbreaking so far. But the question then is : how > is this going to work if the user database numbers 200,000+ ? > It will take almost half a day to complete and this can't be > done in one form-submission or page load ! Why not use ZClient to make the request to do the mailout? It can just happily sit there for half a day (or whatever) chugging along, without screwing up if your browser goes away. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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Re: [Zope] Retrieving the week number with DateTime
by David Coe 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

I suspect there is no 'standard' definition of week number. E.g. if the year begins on a Wednesday, is the following Monday part of week 1 or week 2? Once you decide, you can design a calculation starting with "some_date_object.dayOfYear()" which will give you the day number in the range 1 to 365 (or 366). The simplest algorithm would be to say days 1-7 are week 1, 8-14 are week 2, etc. In that case ((some_date_object.dayOfYear() - 1) / 7) + 1 (or in dtml) <dtml-var "((some_date_object.dayOfYear() - 1) / 7) + 1"> will compute a week number (in the range 1 to 53). If your weeks must begin on Sundays, or Mondays, or whatever, you'll have to first request the dow() from the first day of the relevant year, and do a calculation based on how far into the week the first calendar day of the year falls. If you want help with that, describe the algorithm you want to use. Good luck. Arjan Scherpenisse <acscherp(a)wins.uva.nl> writes: > Hello, > > i want to retrieve the number of the week from a DateTime object. Is > there any way to do this? I've looked through DateTime.py but i > couldnt find anything usefull, is there some algorithm to get this?

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DTML: fetch an object by its url?
by Scott Shepherd 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

In DTML is it possible to get an object using its url? Something like <dtml-with "get_object( '/some/local/url' )">...</dtml-with> Similar to <dtml-with "_.getitem( name )">...</dtml-with> but what I have is the object's zserver url, not its name in the current namespace. TIA, Scott

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ZServer Statistics
by Demos Economacos 11 Sep '00

11 Sep '00

Is there way to determine how many (and which)pages ZServer serves? I am running ZServer as my primary server. What kind of statistics should I be looking for? For example should I be concerned about how long it takes to load pages, and how long users stay on a specific page etc? I am new to website management and would appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance. Demos __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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Using Zope DB connection from a Python class
by Ivan Raikov 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

Greetings, For the past few days, I've been unsuccessfully trying to use a Zope ODBC connection from within a Python class. I have the following situation: 1. A Python class, Order, which has this method: def create (self, cust_id, connection_id = None, itemcode = None, quantity = 0): while self is not None: if hasattr(self, 'objectValues'): for o in self.objectValues(): if hasattr(o, 'id'): if o.id == connection_id: self.connection = o self.cust_id = cust_id self.itemcode = itemcode self.quantity = quantity query = 'insert into orders (cust_id, itemcode, quantity) values (%s, \'%s\', %s)' % (self.cust_id, self.itemcode, self.quantity) if self.connection != None: self.connection._begin() result = self.connection.query (query) print result self.connection._finish() 2. A Zope class, TestOrder, which subclasses Order. Its constructor tries to invokes 'create', however upon executing the SQL query, Zope either dies and is restarted, or just sits there, doing nothing, until the HTTP connection times out. In either case, the new record is not written in the database. 3. Zope 2.1.7 Z ODBC DA 3.0.3 Solid dev kit 2.3 RedHat Linux 6.1 on i386 Please help. Thanks, Ivan Raikov

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<dtml-comment> doesn't?
by Chris Withers 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

Hi, Is is just me or does stuff inside a <dtml-comment> get parsed? So if you have: <dtml-comment> ... some syntactically bad dtml ... </dtml-comment> You still can't save the page 'cos the the parser throws up an error. That seems silly to me. Anyone else agree? cheers, Chris

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Newbie Question (Content Manager Tutorial)
by Mark A. Pappas 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hi All, I decided today was learn Zope Day. I expect to be pounding the list with some newbie questions. I installed Zope 2.2.0 on a Win 98 machine. Seems to work fine. I dloaded the Content Manager Guide and started working through the tutorial. Went to create a folder as instructed. Id: News Title: The ZAcme News X Create public interface X Create user folder Below is what I got. What am I doing wrong? Thanks All Mark Pappas Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: SuperCannotOwn Error Value: Objects cannot be owned by the superuser ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Troubleshooting Suggestions The URL may be incorrect. The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect. A resource that this resource relies on may be encountering an error. For more detailed information about the error, please refer to the HTML source for this page. If the error persists please contact the site maintainer. Thank you for your patience. Traceback (innermost last): File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 222, in publish_module File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 187, in publish File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 171, in publish File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_addFolder) File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: manage_addFolder) File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\OFS\Folder.py, line 116, in manage_addFolder File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\OFS\ObjectManager.py, line 249, in _setObject (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\AccessControl\Owned.py, line 271, in manage_fixupOwnershipAfterAdd (Object: ElementWithAttributes) SuperCannotOwn: (see above)

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Re: [Zope] newbiz : zope connection
by Stephan Goeldi 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

>To get more information, you would analyse ZServer's >log file: "var/Z2.log". It contains an entry for >each HTTP request. But if you use ProxyPass like me, there is only the IP address of the Apache Server in this logfile, so there is only one user in the Z2.log file logged. You have to check out the Apache logfile, usually /var/log/httpd/access_log to see the different IP addresses. The logfile-format of Apache is the same as in Zope. -goe- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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