June 2001 - Zope - Zope lists

script to dynamically update fields in SELECT
by Konstantinos Margaritis 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Hi, I made this script because I wanted to dynamically update the contents of a SELECT field based on the choice in another SELECT. The contents are updated from a <dtml-in> call, in my case from a SQL query. It took me a while to create, and I thought that someone else could use it. Feel free to include it in a FAQ, guide, tips, etc. Comments about the script: * Create the arrays you want in Javascript to be populated by dtml-in. For some reason if I could not make it work if I used identation. keep it all on the same line. * I used a clone() function that I found in some other site to copy the wanted array in itemArray and create the SELECT object using itemArray. * This script uses DHTML show & hide functions. So I doubt it will work in older browsers (actually I don't even know if it will work on anything other than IE. But I plan to test it at least on Konqueror). Regards, Konstantinos Margaritis Script here ----------------- <html> <head> <script language="JavaScript">   </script> <style type="text/css"></style> </head> <body> <form> <select name="choice" onChange="showTable('table', this.form.tableKey, this.selectedIndex);"> <option value=-1>None</option> <option value=1>Games</option> <option value=2>Products</option> </select> <div id="table" class="myStyle"> <select name="tableKey"> </select> </div> </form> </body> </html> -----------------

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dreamweaver and addresstranslation
by Robert Rottermann 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Hi there, I try to use Dreamweaver together with WebDAV. After I changed all my dtml methods and documents to have an extension of .html I can load them into dreamweaver change them and save them back. Very nice indeed. Now my question: All my symbolic addresses like URL1 are translated to their physical address. so URL1 might become www.myserver.com:8080/directory/x This is fine and allows me to see the real thing (where as with ftp I only see the structure). However, when I send the data back, these address are not translated back to their symbolic counterpart. Is their a way to deal with that save of translating them by hand ?? thanks for your ideas Robert

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Re: [Zope] Time-consuming External method blocks Zope execution
by shawn grant 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

I have been unable to get this method to work. I went to the Netscape page and tried their example. It didn't work with Netscape 4.75 on windows or linux (as well as IE and mozilla). Is this still a supported mimetype? Has anyone gotten this to work in or outside of zope? On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Oleg wrote: >On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Dieter Maurer wrote: >> Jerome Alet writes: >> > you have to return a document which content-type is: >> > >> > multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=XXX >> Very Interesting! >> >> * where did you find this (extension) MIME type documented? > This is called Server Push (to distinguish from Client Pull): >http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html >> * what browsers support this? > All major browsers from ancient times. >Oleg. >---- > Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru <mailto:phd@phd.pp.ru> > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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dcoracle2
by Meilicke, Scott 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Hello all, I'm trying to figure out what else is needed to use dcoracle2 besides zope. I have downloaded DCO2-NT-Beta3.ZIP and installed for use on my NT based 2.3.0 zope. When I restart zope, it reported missing oracle dlls. So I copied all of my oracle client (8.0.6) dlls to a folder in my dll path. Now when I start zope, I get the following traceback in the ZOracleDA product: Traceback (innermost last): File "D:\PROGRA~1\intranet\test01\lib\python\OFS\Application.py", line 528, in import_products product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly) File "D:\PROGRA~1\intranet\test01\lib\python\Products\ZOracleDA\__init__.py", line 91, in ? import DA File "D:\PROGRA~1\intranet\test01\lib\python\Products\ZOracleDA\DA.py", line 91, in ? from db import DB File "D:\PROGRA~1\intranet\test01\lib\python\Products\ZOracleDA\db.py", line 89, in ? import DCOracle2, DateTime File "D:\PROGRA~1\intranet\test01\lib\python\Products\ZOracleDA\DCOracle2\__init_ _.py", line 37, in ? from DCOracle2 import * File "D:\PROGRA~1\intranet\test01\lib\python\Products\ZOracleDA\DCOracle2\DCOracl e2.py", line 63, in ? import dco2 ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Thanks, Scott

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Evaluating an parameter in a custom tag
by Tommy Johnson 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Hello all, This really is a quick question, but it does take some explaining, otherwise the full idea doesn't get across. What I'm trying to accomplish is to have a custom tag write out an HTML table with 3 columns. Also, it will fill in the columns with content, which will come from 3 separate DTML Methods. Ok, now for the meat: I have a DTML Document from which I call my custom tag. Its syntax is this: <dtml-customTag attribute1="methodA" attribute2="methodB" attribute3="methodC"> What this produces is HTML that looks similiar to this: <table> <tr> <td>Content from methodA</td> <td>Content from methodB</td> <td>Content from methodC</td> </tr> </table> Like I said, the content will be provided through the DTML methods, so one of those would just contain text (for now) ;> Something like --> this is methodB: "Welcome to my site. I hope you enjoy your stay." (without quotes) The actual code for the custom tag is this: <dtml-table leftColumn=_['methodA'] middleColumn=_['methodB'] rightColumn=_['methodC']> This does save correctly, and I tried it with quotes around the passed values also. That also works. Now for the problem. I cannot seem to get the tag to evaluate the methods. What happens is that the attributes take in the literal string "_['methodA']" and displays that in the HTML table. Like so: <table> <tr> <td>_['methodA']</td> <td>_['methodB']</td> <td>_['methodC']</td> </tr> </table> So now, here's the question. Is there a way in DTML to tell it to evaluate _['methodA'] so that when I write: leftColumn=_['methodA'] it will first see that I want the text within the DTML Method methodA, and assign that to the attribute leftColumn? I did something similiar that worked, but it used the <dtml-var> tag. I wrote this to display an image that I wanted to display 500 pixels wide: <dtml-var expr="imageName.tag(width=_['methodSize'])"> Within the DTML Method "methodSize", I simply wrote the string (number) 500 So what happened is that the tag evaluated the method, and returned the string, '500' to make the argument width=500 What I see from this is that the <dtml-var> tag itself does the evaluation on _['methodSize'], correct? And if so, then how does it do it? Sorry for the short novel, and thanks in advance, Tommy

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RE: [Zope] Apache, mod_rewrite, https working together?
by tomc＠evetcia.com 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

I dont do exactly what you are looking for but I do do this: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8080/zopefolder/$1?REAL_HOST=%{HTTP_HOST} [QSA,P] ProxyPass /misc_ http://localhost:8080/misc_ ProxyPass /p_ http://localhost:8080/p_ Notice that I am passing the HTTP_HOST variable through as a query string append. I do this because it is the only way (that I know of) to pass client info to Zope. I then call it as I would any other zope variable. of course you could do the same for IP or any other similar variable. Hope this helps. Tom => -----Original Message----- => From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On => Behalf Of Jim => Penny => Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2001 10:33 AM => To: zope(a)zope.org => Subject: [Zope] Apache, mod_rewrite, https working together? => => => One of the strengths of the mod_proxy solution is that => it it possible to use apache-ssl to convert https => requests to http. => => But, that comes with the cost that it is quite difficult => for the Zope server to know the actual remote IP. => => It would be nice to be able to use the E=... flag setting => of the RewriteRule to set the REMOTE_ADDR to something => visible to Zope. => => Has anyone used mod_rewrite directives to proxy an https => request onto an http zope site? Does the E= flag permit => forwarding the REMOTE_ADDR? => => Thanks => => Jim Penny => => _______________________________________________ => 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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my solution for manipulating PDF
by Kyler B. Laird 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

For the projects we do, we frequently need to generate a PDF file that consists of PDF files (submitted to us by proposal/paper authors) and dynamic data (from other Zope objects). Before we started The Great Zope Migration, we used LaTeX to generate the dynamic pages and then glued them together with pjscript. http://www.etymon.com/pj/pjscript.html I've been trying to find a good way to do this under Zope. I have looked at PDFlib. http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/ I like that it has Python bindings, but for manipulation of existing PDF, we would have to purchase its sister product, PDI. More recently, I was pointed at ReportLab. http://www.reportlab.com/ This is even better; it's written in Python. (I see that it's being used by other Zopers, too.) Unfortunately, it too requires another product, PageCatcher http://www.reportlab.com/pageCatcher/ to do the things I want to do. It would be a slick integrated solution, but I might end up sing it without PageCatcher. We have money to spend, but I'm dead set against using Closed solutions right now, so neither of these appealed to me enough. Instead, I decided to fall back on pjscript. Cameron Laird helped me get started with a simple PJ document class. I made it work as a Zope External Method for trivial purposes, but then I rewrote most of it today so that I can do most everything that pjscript offers. (I'll include PJ.py, the Zope extension at the end of this message.) I was surprised at how easy it was to do this. Here's how I use it from a Python Script: document = container.WRRC.Ztools.PJdoc() # Sandwich the NYT fax between two simple pages. document.readpdf(container['simple.pdf'].data) document.appendpdf(container['nytfax.pdf'].data) document.appendpdf(container['simple.pdf'].data) # Remove the first page of the NYT fax. document.deletepage(2) # Make an 'X'. document.setpage(2) document.drawline((0,0), (500,500), 5) document.drawline((0,500), (500,0), 5) # Throw text around. document.setpage(1) document.initxy() document.drawtext(text='upper left', font='Courier-BoldOblique', fontsize=8) document.drawtext(text='PJdoc test', font='Helvetica-Bold', fontsize=16, pos=(50, 600)) document.drawtext('Howdy!', fontsize=90) # Write lines of text. document.setinit((200,400)) document.initxy() document.drawtext('one') document.nextxy() document.drawtext('two') document.nextxy() document.drawtext('three') # Set the resulting document's info. document.setinfo('Author', 'Kyler Laird') document.setinfo('Keywords', 'foo blah test NYTimes') context.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-type', 'application/pdf') return document.writepdf() Although I really balked at using system() calls into pjscript (wanting to go straight to the PJ API through some Python/Java wizardry) for this, it's hardly noticeable at this level. I like the solution. I'm almost confident that I can safely encourage its wide use here. Next I'm going to work on extensions for Ghostscript (for PS->PDF conversion), LaTeX and html2ps. I'll probably revisit ReportLab, too. I only offer this because I'm guessing someone else might travel down this road someday and it could help a bit. I'd put it somewhere more permanent, but I'm not willing to commit to its correctness nor to its maintenance right now. Please smack me if I'm out of line posting such things here. Thank you. --kyler =================================================== PJ.py =================================================== import tempfile import os import sys import string # Return a PJdoc object to caller. def PJdoc(): return _PJdoc() class _PJdoc: # Allow Zope users to access PJdoc's methods. __allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__=1 # CL intends to re-sort these def-s into utilities and publics. def __init__(self): # the PJ script I'm building self._script = '' # Keep track of temporary files. self.tmpfiles = [] def __del__(self): # Clean up my temporary files. for file in self.tmpfiles: os.unlink(file) # Put a string in a temporary file. # Keep track of it so we can delete it when # this object is destroyed. def _write_string_to_tmpfile(self, text): filename = tempfile.mktemp("pjs") # Add to list of temporary files. self.tmpfiles.append(filename) file = open(filename, "w") # I had problems just writing everything # at once, so now I write in 1K chunks. start = 0 textlen = len(text) bufsiz = 1024 while 1: end = start + bufsiz if (end >= textlen): file.write(text[start:]) break else: file.write(text[start:end]) start = end file.close() # Tell caller the name of the file used. return filename # Display our accumulated PJ script. def show_script(self): return self._script # Run the PJ script. def _run(self): tmpfile = self._write_string_to_tmpfile(self.show_script()) command_string = "/usr/bin/env pjscript %s" % tmpfile result = os.system(command_string) if result != 0: report = "Failure with '%s'." % command_string raise report # Add a command to the PJ script. def _do(self, string): self._script = self._script + string + '\n' # Add a command that reads from a file to the PJ script. def _read_file_command(self, command, string): tmpfile = self._write_string_to_tmpfile(string) self._do('$file %s' % tmpfile) self._do('%s' % command) # Add a command that writes to a file to the PJ script. def _write_file_command(self, command): # I will handle destroying this. tmpfile = tempfile.mktemp("pdf") # Set "file" to point at the temprorary file. self._do('$file %s\n' % tmpfile) # Do the command. self._do('%s\n' % command) # Run pjscript with the current script. # There are better ways to handle this? self._run() # Read the result. file = open(tmpfile, "r") string = file.read() file.close # Return the text of the output file to # the caller. return string # Set a PJ script variable. def _set_variable(self, var, val): if val is None: return # Everything is a string to pjscript. val = str(val) # Make sure val isn't screwy. # If someone got a newline in, an arbitrary command # could be executed. if (string.find(val, '\n') != -1 or string.find(val, '\r') != -1): report = "Invalid value: '%s'." % val raise report # To store "data" in "x", do "$x data". self._do('$%s %s\n' % (var, val)) # Kyler added this. def setpage(self, page=None): self._set_variable('page', page) # Kyler added this. def setinit(self, pos): (x, y) = pos self._set_variable('xinit', x) self._set_variable('yinit', y) # For commands below, see # http://www.etymon.com/pj/pjscript.html # Note that I've handled x, y pairs as position tuples. def appendpdf(self, pdfstring): self._read_file_command(command='appendpdf', string=pdfstring) def deletepage(self, page=None): self._set_variable('page', page) self._do('deletepage') def drawline(self, start, end, linewidth=None): (x0, y0) = start (x1, y1) = end self._set_variable('x0', x0) self._set_variable('y0', y0) self._set_variable('x1', x1) self._set_variable('y1', y1) self._set_variable('linewidth', linewidth) self._do('drawline') def drawtext(self, text, font=None, fontsize=None, page=None, pos=None): self._set_variable('text', text) self._set_variable('font', font) self._set_variable('fontsize', fontsize) if pos is not None: (x, y) = pos self._set_variable('x', x) self._set_variable('y', y) self._set_variable('page', page) self._do('drawtext') def initxy(self): self._do('initxy') def newpdf(self): self._do('newpdf') def nextxy(self): self._do('nextxy') def readpdf(self, pdfstring): self._read_file_command(command='readpdf', string=pdfstring) def setinfo(self, key, text): self._set_variable('key', key) self._set_variable('text', text) self._do('setinfo') def writepdf(self): return self._write_file_command(command='writepdf')

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Where can I see my ZClass's API?
by Felix Ulrich 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Hi Newbie question again: I have made a couple of ZClasses and I want to manipulate then from a python script, but I don't know what methods are available to me. Can I see the python source of my new class, or see the API somehow? In more detail, if you're interested: I have made a DatePattern ZClass, which extends ObjectManager. My python script processes a form, and should add new instances of PatternInstance (another ZClass I've made) to the DatePattern in question. I can't see how to do this. Thanks in advance for your help Felix. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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[Fwd: Re: [Zope] newbie q: error messages after install - RH rpms]
by Nicole Lallande 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Chris - I don't know enough about ports - my /etc/services file says: webcache 8080/tcp # WWW caching service webcache 8080/udp # WWW caching service do I just add a line: zope 8080/tcp # Zope ? the reason why I used 8021 is because that is what I thought it was running on - if I type localhost:8080/manage I get that netscape is unable to find the server. Unfortunately there is nothing in the documentation that says what do do. Where does the port get set and how do I reset it? BTW - RedHat rpm install ... TIA, Nicole Chris McDonough wrote: > > Hi Nicole, > > Port 8021 is the FTP port in this case, and you will not get useful > information out of it. Are you sure the HTTP server is running on > 8080? When you say it doesnt work do you mean you can't get to it in a > browser, or you can't log in or something else? > > Nicole Lallande wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have downloaded and installed all the files, and yes zope is running - > > > > when I tried localhost:8080/manage it did not work and so I changed it > > to localhost:8021/manage because that seems to be the port it is running > > on: > > > > python z2.py -p /var/zope/Zope.cgi -u zope -z /usr/share/zope -Z > > /var/run/zwatchdog.pid -w -f 8021 -m -l /var/log/zope > > > > so - after running that command I get: > > > > 220 mango FTP server (Medusa Async V1.12.4.1 [experimental]) ready. 500 > > 'GET': command not understood. 500 'Connection:': > > command not understood. 500 'User-Agent:': command not understood. 500 > > 'Pragma:': command not understood. 500 'Host:': command > > not understood. 500 'Accept:': command not understood. 500 > > 'Accept-Encoding:': command not understood. 500 'Accept-Language:': > > command not understood. 500 'Accept-Charset:': command not understood. > > > > > at which point it just hangs. Apologies if this q has been addressed > > before but I did: > > > > try your documentation > > look through your archives. > > > > TIA, > > > > Nicole > > > > -- > > ######################## > > Nicole Lallande > > nicole(a)nmlconsulting.com > > 760.753.6766 > > ######################## > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 ) > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ) -- ######################## Nicole Lallande nicole(a)nmlconsulting.com 760.753.6766 ########################

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Image <dtml-var tag>
by James van der Veen 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Hi everybody, In my portal I would like people to be able to add images. But as you might understand those people don't want their pictures to get "stolen" . So I tried Zbutton.... I would like to get an image over the image. This wors fine except for the fact that if I call the image like in image_view the dtml-var tag I just sse teh tag as an image ... like http://www.sjeems.com/ilsedelange/sjeems.gif alt=sjeems etc etcetc.> Does anyone have any idea what this <dtml-var tag> does? or does anyone have any other solutions or maby has done it another way? Hope y'all can help me! James

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