April 2001 - Zope - Zope lists

RE: [Zope] Forking the Mailing List
by Huston, Virgil H. 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

At this stage, I most definately need a newbie list. I have been all over the zope web site, read documentation, etc., and still don't really have a clue even how to install it or if it will work on my host companies servers. All the documentation assumes that everyone has some basic level of understanding. Maybe I'm the only one on the list who is completely confused (the unstructured documentation doesn't help), so maybe I shouldn't even be considering Zope. That said, I need a CMS, have no budget and every other open source product I have looked at makes Zope documentation look like the best in the world. That isn't saying much, however. The documentation seems to be there, but is so unorganized that I have trouble knowing what I need to read, learn and know. My newbie $.02 Virgil > If we must split then I agree with Brian here, no 'newbies' list. > > Phil > >

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database
by Stian Jenssen 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

I want to have a database with questions and answers on a wap platform, and use zope to randomly pull information out of the database (eg. 10 questions at the time). Have the zope running on a apache server on an linux box. Is there any way this may be accomplished. Stian Jenssen

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InterbaseStorage Product
by Uwe Fechner 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hello, I am trying to install the InterbaseStorage Product on a linux- system (debian). In the readme of this product it is said, that I shall install Kinterbasedb. Well, there are two versions available: Kinterbasedb 0.5 with api 1.0 and Kinterbasedb 2.0 with db-api 2.0. Which one shall I use? Best regards: ufechner(a)4commerce.de

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AddressBook Preview 4 (almost there)
by Morten W. Petersen 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hia guys, just wanted to annouce a preview of the AddressBook product, which is available from: http://www.zope.org/Members/morphex/AddressBook it's almost ready for a 1.0 release now, pending testing and verification of permission fixes. As always, comments & patches are more than welcome. Cheers, Morten

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How to correctly use the PARENTS object?
by Gerrie Roos 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

I've struggled with this long enough to justify asking help...I've been through the manuals, FAQ's etc, but somehow my understanding of PARENTS object is incomplete... I have the following directory structure: Bugs Interface Insert sendMail - a DTML Document BugsMail getRecipients - a Z SQL Method I'd like to call and iterate over the results of getRecipients from sendMail. So I tried the following in sendMail: <dtml-in PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients> <dtml-var someFieldReturnedByGetRecipients> </dtml-in> ...and I get a KeyError for PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients.... I tried various other options (albeit somewhat blindly/desparately), eg. putting the whole PARENTS thing in an expression, etc...What am I missing? What other options are there to traverse a path in a dtml-statement, or to do what I want to do here? Please help, I'm pretty new to this...

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RE: [Zope] Proposal of forking the zope@zope.org list
by Huston, Virgil H. 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

I always thought Zope-Dev was for "real developers." I would certainly welcome a Zope for dummies list. One for non techicies trying to figure it out and implement it. Virgil I feel the division is something like: zope-dev: for discussions that require deeper Zen zope: for discussions that are more accessible http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Tree tag, python scripts & returning an object
by Ivan Cornell 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hi, I'm trying to use a python script in the branches_expr of <dtml-tree> to return a list of relevant nodes, but the tree tag seem to require an object for each node containing id, url attributes, etc. Is there any way of doing this using a python script, or do I have to create a dummy class in an External method instead. Thanks, Ivan

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Re: [Zope] How to correctly use the PARENTS object?
by Oliver Bleutgen 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

> I have the following directory structure: > Bugs > Interface > Insert > sendMail - a DTML Document > BugsMail > getRecipients - a Z SQL Method > I'd like to call and iterate over the results of getRecipients from > sendMail. So I tried the following in sendMail: > <dtml-in PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients> > <dtml-var someFieldReturnedByGetRecipients> > </dtml-in> > ...and I get a KeyError for PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients.... > I tried various other options (albeit somewhat blindly/desparately), eg. > putting the whole PARENTS thing in an expression, etc...What am I > missing? > What other options are there to traverse a path in a dtml-statement, or > to do what I want to do here? Gerrie, first the long answer: First, PARENTS[1] tells you that it's a python expression (a list), so you have to put it into " 's. So you now would have <dtml-in "PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients"> <dtml-var someFieldReturnedByGetRecipients> </dtml-in> Because the term is now enclosed in " 's, you're in python and you don't have the magic of dtml-in/var and friends which try to always "do the right thing". You want to call a method in python and you do it that way: <dtml-in "PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients()"> but now getRecipients doesn't get any parameters handled, you have to pass them explicitly, like <dtml-in "PARENTS[1].BugsMail.getRecipients(myvar=myvar)"> Now the short answer: <dtml-with "PARENTS[1]"> <dtml-with BugsMail> <dtml-in getRecipients> <dtml-var someFieldReturnedByGetRecipients> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> or alternativly (and even shorter) <dtml-with "PARENTS[1].BugsMail"> <dtml-in getRecipients> <dtml-var someFieldReturnedByGetRecipients> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> cheers, oliver > Please help, I'm pretty new to this... > _______________________________________________ > 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: Creating Database Connection
by Vishnu Prasad 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hi Are you loading on Linux or Windows? You need to load Zope; mysql; and then install ZMySQLDA 1.1.4. I have used the latest versions of Zope (2.3.1); MySQL (2.23.36); and MySQL adapter (1.1.4) on Linux. I have tested this on Windows NT too. You may get the adapter from this location. http://www.zope.org/Members/mordred/ZMySQLDA/ZMySQLDA-1.1.4-nonbin.tar.gz/v… Follow the instructions: 1. Untar in the topmost zope folder 2. GoTo <zopefolder>/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/src directory 3. Read the README file (if you have problems while running make, then follow the below said instructions) 4. Open MySQLModule.c using 'vi' or any other editor 5. In line 235, change �int� as �long�;In line 384, 1125, 1147 remove �&� found 6. Save the changes and close 7. Run make and you will find the MySQLmodule.so (linux); MySQL.pyd (windows) 8. copy this adapter file in the previous directory ../ZMySQLDA 9. You may have to copy the dtml files under <Zopefolder>/lib/python/Shared/DC/ZRDB/dtml/*.* into the previous directory ../ZRDB 10. Now restart Zope and you will find the MySQLDatabase connection. Click ADD and make the connection with the Connection string: test@domainname You're Done! Let me know, if you need help. regards, vishnu 6. Hi All, Can some one help to create a database connection to MySql. Regards., Karunakaran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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ONLY in python script
by Peter Bengtsson 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

assuming this folder structure: /main /zopestuff /misc /otherstuff If I do this in python script: if hasattr(context.main,'zopestuff'): # it returns TRUE!! return "found in /main/" But also, if I do it in or /misc or /otherstuff if hasattr(context.main.misc,'zopestuff'): # if returns TRUE! return "found in /main/misc/" This is because of aquisition, right. So HOW do I prevent this it happen? I want it only to true with what is called ONLY in DTML. I.e. to get the effect I'm after I would do: <dtml-with "main.misc" only> <dtml-if zopestuff> # This not true </dtml-if> </dtml-with> Peter

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