September 2000 - Zope

Ad banners in Zope anyone ?
by Jason Cunliffe 06 Sep '00

06 Sep '00

Hello I am glad to see any new web site anoncements using Zope. For example the new Malaysian news service at http://www.emedia.com.my/ Out of curiosity I checked to see how they handled their ad banners: <a href="/phpAds/click.php3"><img src="/phpAds/phpads.php3?what=NST" border="0" width="468" height="60"> It looks like this is perhaps some instant cut-and-paste of exsiting PHP tools tacked onto the Zope Server. If it ain't broke don't fix it..and DTML aint pretty we know.. - Can one run PHP from inside of Zserver/ZODB easily? - How would to do that? - Is anyone using Zope for Ad Banner services?? - What would would make it a good or bad choice? thanks Jason ________________________________________________________________ Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS.(Interactive Art and Technology).Design Director

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Zope 2.2 & ZopeAttributionButton
by Ira Hochman 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hello Does anyone know how to set security on ZopeAttributionButton? Since it is referenced (currently) in my standard_html_footer, users who have only access to their subdirectory get an error on pages that reference this footer. I'd rather set it up properly than remove the credits. TIA! --ira -- Ira Hochman go2ira(a)onebox.com - email __________________________________________________ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com

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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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wikis down momentarily
by ethan mindlace fremen 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Zopatistas, Wikis will be offline briefly as we ZEO-fy them. Thanks for your patience, -- ethan mindlace fremen Zopatista Community Liason Abnegate I!

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Re: [Zope-dev] Folderish objects and multiple inheritance
by Andy McKay 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hmmm I can override inheritance in a simple class... I guess theres something in Zope thats annoying this: class A: var = 'A' def test(self): return self.var class B: var = 'B' def test(self): return self.var class C(B, A): var = 'C' def test(self): return A.var c = C() print c.test() OUTPUT>> A ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy McKay" <andym(a)ActiveState.com> To: <zope-dev(a)zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:35 AM Subject: [Zope-dev] Folderish objects and multiple inheritance > Hi there, > > Ok so I have a class that has multiple inheritance. My main class (A) works > fine, but I wanted to add in folderish properties. The problem is the order > of multiple inheritance and viewing folder objects. When you view a folder > from you call index_html and this gives a content list. > > By inheriting this way: > > class B(A, Folder): > > I have kept all my A methods. However viewing it does not produce the > content list since its overwritten by A. Of course inheriting: > > class B(Folder, A): > > Does work for that, but breaks all my other methods. > > Solutions: > > Well I tried defining a tab - view_folder which was something along the line > of: > > def view_folder(self, client=None, REQUEST={}): > ''' doc string ''' > return Folder(self, client, REQUEST) > > But get an attribute error on manage_tabs. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > -- > Andy McKay, Developer. > ActiveState. > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) >

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How to make and populate properties remotely..? 4 questions of the apocalypse..
by Jason Cunliffe 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hello Hoping some kind enlightened zopistas can point me to existing examples or show me how the syntax works for this: 1. I need to write a simple general method which will allow me to create a property in the parent folder. for example: 'createParentProperty()' DTMLmethod ----------------------------------------------------------- <dtml with PARENTS[-1]> <dtml manage_addProperty(Id = 'myNewPopertyName') <dtml manage_addProperty(type = 'tokens') <dtml manage_addProperty(value = '') <dtml-with> ------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Then I need to extend my 'createParentProperty()' method so I can call it from an URL, http POST or GET. I want to pass or fetch the parent folder's property 'Id' name. for example: http://www.zopesite.net/TOP/SUB/PROJECTA/createParentProperty?=id+statistics &type=tokens will create a property Id = 'statistics' in PROJECTA folder of my site whose type = 'tokens' but if it exists already it will return a '1' How to do this? 3. Then I need to do the same thing but this time setting or getting the property's 'Value' field via http POST or GET. for example: http://www.zopesite.net/TOP/SUB/PROJECTA/createParentProperty?=id+statistics &value+2000september will create a new property id = 'statistics', type = 'tokens', value =' 2000september' but if 'statistics' already exists, the method will just change the value 4. Finally some properties we need to 'lock' so they cannot be overwritten by the above methods. However I do need to check remotely over http if this is so. For example: http://www.zopesite.net/TOP/SUB/PROJECTA/createParentProperty?=id+admin&valu e+2000September will return an integer '2' or string such as : 'locked' or "property id = 'admin' is locked" where: 0 = does not exist 1 = exists 3 = locked How to do this? ...ideally there there should be a separete method we can call to lock or unlock a property for admin use over http Thanks for any help..deadlines loom.. - Jason ________________________________________________________________ Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS.(Interactive Art and Technology).Design Director

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Getting the Date from Zope
by Stuart Foster 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

I know I've seen many posts about this, I just can't find one. I need to put the current date into an input's value when a form is loaded. Is there a way to do this with DTML. TIA Stuart

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Help with calcualtions in DTML
by Dario Lopez-K�sten 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

Hello! I have the following listing of objects in my folder: <table> <tr> <td>Name</td> <td align="right">Size</td> <td align="right">date</td> </tr> <dtml-in expr="doc.objectValues()"> <tr> <td> <a href="<dtml-var absolute_url>"><dtml-var id></a> </td> <td align="right"> <dtml-var get_size> bytes </td> <td align="right"> <dtml-var bobobase_modification_time fmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"> </td> </tr> </dtml-in> </table> It gives me the name of the object, the size in bytes and the modification time in GMT. I need to do the following: express the size in kb, format the output with spaces for thousands. I also need the date displayed according to my locale (+2 GMT in Sweden) so if bobobase_modification_time is 10:48, I need to show it as 8:48, and on top of that I also need to take dayligth savings into account. How do I do it? The fmt strings are abviously adjusted to US standards, so us ISO-people need to hack our own format strings :-). I know i could calculate the size in KB myself IF I only knew how to get the get_size attribute into a calculation expression (that goes for bobobase_modification_time as well, however this returns as string. How do I get the date as a date?) Any help is appreciated and needed. Thank you. /dario PS: has anyone been thinking of renaming bobobase_modification_time to something shorter and more intuitive, like, say, modification_time? :-)) - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Lopez-Kästen Systems Developer Chalmers Univ. of Technology dario(a)ita.chalmers.se ICQ will yield no hits IT Systems & Services

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EVENT: First Houston Zope Users Group Meeting
by Larry Albert 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

An informal Houston Zope Users Group is holding a first meeting this Wednesday evening, September 6, at 6:30 at the Koch Building in Greenway Plaza, Houston. Topics will be Zope and Zope-related Python. Because access to the Koch Building is limited, we will meet promptly at 6:30 in front of the Quizno's (deli) at 3837 Richmond, near Weslayan. At 6:40, we will go into the Koch building accompanied by George Runyan. If you are able to join us, please be there on time or you will miss us -- there is no way for visitors to get into the building if you are unescorted. For further information, please email George Runyan at grunyan(a)emerging.com

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