May 2001 - Zope - Zope lists

Re: [Zope] Newbie Question
by Ignoramus Maximus 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hi Eric, Thanks for the response. Loved the <shameless plug></shamelessplug> ... you've got great comic timing. More below:- >First, I'd like to say that your questions are not at all trivial, and I >had to do a lot of research to answer these questions for my own work. >Squishdot is a product that creates sites similar to Slashdot. It looks >nothing like a Mac site, but the graphics can be customized. See >http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/Squishdot > >If you need more workflow features, then the CMF might be more suitable >for you. Please read through the documentation at http://cmf.zope.org >before you install CMF, it is a complex software package. Thanks, I thought it wouldn't be such a brain-strain, I guess I was wrong. I don't think I'll have a problem with trying out Squishdot at all, nor CMF. I know it's going to take a lot of sweat and cups of coffee. Kinda worried bout the clients tho. They've been spoilt by the user friendliness of the Mac and will balk at the idea that the cms they'll use is different. I'm sure that one can be developed, I'm just not sure as to which tools to utilise to build what they want. They want a superfast site, with lots of quicktime files (stored in MySQL) that's easily updateable by non techs. They'll also need a workgroup calendar solution that would enable them to work collectively from remote locations. I know that they sound like a big company, but they're aren't ... they only have 5 staff. But they'd like to use the site as their virtual office, ... so to speak. Oh yea .. they need loads of Flash. ><shameless plug> >If you would like some help with this site, we do technical and creative >consulting. ></shameless plug> Hey! I might just need to call on you, if I can't handle this on my lonesome. ;) but without going through much detail ... can you forsee potholes/problems? iggy >Eric Balasbas >Senior Developer >eric(a)virtosi.com > >http://www.virtosi.com/ >Virtosi Ltd. >Design -- Branding -- Zope > > >On Tue, 22 May 2001, Ignoramus Maximus wrote: > >> Hi There, >> >> I'm an absolute newbie to Zope and was hoping for some help. >> >> I'm jumping head first into a project for one of our creative >> clients. I've recommended Zope over other application servers. >> One of the requirements for the site is that we build an easy >> mac-feeling content management system for the clients to update >> the site as well as upload Quicktime files and change stuff >> around. Where should I start, and what should I use? >> >> Another requirement would be the creation of an online calendar >> that can be accessed by a particular workgroup. Again, where >> would I start, and what would I use? >> >> Lastly, what does one charge for building a CMS solution as such? >> >> I appologise if the questions are trivial. Thanks for the time. >> iggy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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[ANN] ZShell 1.0pre1
by Jerome Alet 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of ZShell 1.0pre1. ZShell is an external Zope method which allows you to manipulate the ZODB using standard unix shell's commands from within Zope's Management Interface in your web browser. You can download it from: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/zshell/ This is a preversion of 1.0 which I'll publish in a week or two, but I would want to receive lots of feedback from people who use ZShell with SiteRoots, VirtualHostMonsters and all this sort of things. Such setups seem to make ZShell display incorrect urls and objects' paths, so the more feedback I receive the on this subject, the less buggy it will be in 1.0 final. Please send me reports which include your current configuration and "works" or "doesn't work", and of course feel free to send patches. New features are: ================= - The call command works again. - The wget command works again. - The passwd command now works. - The domains command now works. - The roles command now works. - The lrole command was renamed to lroles to be more consistent with the roles command. - The lsusers command now lists both roles and local roles. - The lsuser command was renamed to lsusers to be more consistent with the rest. - The cd command now displays the current directory correctly when an error occurs. - Security checks are now done for all commands. - DocStrings fixes. - Urls should now be OK with SiteRoots and Apache ProxyPass/ProxyReverse, but this needs heavy testing by someone who has got this sort of setup. The fact that all commands now do security checks may be of particular interest to those of you who were afraid of giving ZShell access to people: you should now be able to do it (carefully) 1.0 final will include: ======================= addrole (add a user defined role) setperms (set permissions) lsperms (list permissions) locate (search in ZCatalog) history (history of commands) suckfs (suck filesystems and put them into ZODB) the mv command will allow renaming. the mv and cp commands will accept paths in source arguments. TODO list for post 1.0: ======================= - Make most commands recognize options, the most useful options would certainely be: --recurse and --maxdepth --hasperms= --type= --mtime= --mmin= --owner= ... - Piping between commands. Feel free to send any wish, comment, bug report, patch, etc... Thanks in advance. Jerome Alet - alet(a)unice.fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome Fac de Medecine de Nice http://wwwmed.unice.fr Tel: (+33) 4 93 37 76 30 Fax: (+33) 4 93 53 15 15 28 Avenue de Valombrose - 06107 NICE Cedex 2 - FRANCE

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Error in Etailer - hope to find help here
by Gitte Wange 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hello, When I check out my orders in my Etailer shop, I get the following error: TypeError Sorry, a site error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: CatalogAware) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: buy) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: buy) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/Etailer/Cart.py, line 282, in buy (Object: Traversable) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/Etailer/OrderManager.py, line 115, in create_order (Object: RoleManager) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 538, in __call__ (Object: <string>) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 334, in eval (Object: style().postOrder(_.None,_)) (Info: _) File <string>, line 0, in ? File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 182, in __call__ (Object: postOrder) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 538, in __call__ (Object: postOrder) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/MailHost/SendMailTag.py, line 189, in render (Object: MailHost) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/MailHost/MailHost.py, line 222, in send (Object: MailHost) File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/smtplib.py, line 465, in sendmail File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/smtplib.py, line 349, in mail File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/smtplib.py, line 118, in quoteaddr File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/rfc822.py, line 451, in parseaddr File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/rfc822.py, line 496, in getaddrlist File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/rfc822.py, line 504, in getaddress File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.2-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/rfc822.py, line 484, in gotonext TypeError: len() of unsized object Well looks like it's the mailhost that is something wrong with but .... I'm not into this so please help me .. Regards, -- ************************ Gitte Wange Jensen System Squid Developer MMManager Aps +45 29 72 79 72 gitte(a)mmmanager.org ************************

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using db2.0-conform database in Zope
by Rudi Wurm 22 May '01

22 May '01

i would like to use the Kinterbasedb-2.0 package from Alexander Kuznetsov to use a Interbase database in a Zope project. This python-module is Python DB API 2.0 compatible. What are the steps to make a database connection visible in Zope with this module ? There is also a gvidba-package out as a ready-tu-use modul for Interbase Datbases, but this is only for Version >= 6, and our database will stay at version 5.6, what only kinterbase supports. thank you for any help _______________________________________________________________________ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de IhrName(a)web.de, 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de

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Amanda to backup ZOPE remotely
by Marcus Schopen 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hi there, is it a good idea to use Amanda to backup ZOPE's physical home directory (/home/zope) while ZOPE is active? Is it critical because of changing data.fs and logfiles while Amanda is trying to do its job? Now I use rync (http://www.zope.org/Members/jrush/howto_rsync_zope) Thank you Marcus _______________________________________ (0> Marcus Schopen //\ Bielefeld, Germany V_/_ _______________________________________ Live as variously as possible

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Re: [Zope] question about PathHandler
by Chris Withers 22 May '01

22 May '01

Kevin L wrote: > > Hi, Chris. I'm just following up with a little more information > about my problem. > > I made the changes to PathHandler.py like you suggested. > > And on my server I have a folder called "testf" which contains > one dtml document called "index_html". > > In the root I have a path handler called "ph" and the Method > value is set to "/testf/index_html". > > When I try to access this via the web I get a key error on > "testf". It also appears to restart zope whenever I do this > because I see messages on the console. > > btw, you can see this with http://test.discogs.com/ph/1 > (this is running behind apache with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy, > if that matters) > > any ideas? thanks! Not really :-S The list may be able to help though... cheers, Chris

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Python external method
by Laurie Nason 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hi guys, I have a very simple python external function (id=thumbnail, module=thumb, function=thumbnail) ####!/usr/bin/python def thumbnail(infile,size): try: im = infile except IOError: print "cannot create thumbnail for", infile im2=im.thumbnail((size,size)) return im2 All this does is to take a file object and return the thumbnail of the image provided - fairly simple I hear you say - well, I can't seem to get the dtml required to call it. I want the form to display just a thumbnail of the full image so I pass in the id of the image object - I have tried most combinations including the ones below: <dtml-var expr="thumbnail(_['id'],128)"> Error---"not enough arguments; expected 2, got 1 " <dtml-var expr="thumbnail(_.getattr(REQUEST,'id'),128)"> <dtml-var expr="thumbnail(_[_.getattr(REQUEST,'id')],128)"> <dtml-var expr="thumbnail(_.getitem(_['id']),128)"> WHY????????? &:-( Laurie Laurie Nason Dept. of Biochemistry - N420 Baylor College of Medicine Houston. TX77030

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deleting objects from a dtml method
by Sandy Britain 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hi, I've created a ZClass in a product and then written dtml methods that allow users to make new objects of the class using manage_addProduct.. and can edit the properties of a given object using manage_changeProperties. But I can't anywhere find the appropriate method call for deleting objects from their container via a dtml method, can anyone help? thanks in advance Sandy Britain

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delete quote in strings
by Frank Zorge 22 May '01

22 May '01

Hi, Does anyone know how to delete quotes in strings, for instance delete the quotes in: 'hello'. I tried to use string.replace but I don't get the syntax right. <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('var',_.string.replace(var,''','')"> Or maybe there's a better way? Thanks Frank Zorge

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Localhost Zope ignoring new username/pwd (2)
by Kirby Urner 22 May '01

22 May '01

solved problem by renaming inituser to access docs don't seem to care, but Zope does. >Using localhost Zope on WinME: > >Forgot my username/password, so I followed instructions to run >zpasswd.py in a DOS box. Gave inituser as filename to store info, >and gave new username/password at prompts. inituser now exists >in the same subdirectory as zpasswd. But on booting Zope, it pays >no attention to the new info and still won't let me in. Help? > >Kirby

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