June 2001 - Zope - Zope lists

Mailform & Sendmail
by Tapio Hüffner 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hi guys, I want to create a sendmail-Method which works with several forms. For that I want to list the variables and their values independent from each form. <dtml-var "REQUEST.form"> works, but the output is: {'comments': 'my comment', 'name': 'my name'}. What I would like to see is: comments: my comment name: my name' but I don't want to create for each form a sendmail-Method which includes: comment: <dtml-var comments> Name: <dtml-var name> My idea was something like <dtml-in "REQUEST.form"> <dtml-var name>: <dtml-var value> </dtml-in> but REQUEST.form isn't a sequence!? I guess this is an easy question. Thank you in advance, Tapio

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Making sure all users are authenticated
by David Goodenough 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

I should preface this question with a little background. I come from a Lotus Domino world where all users are authenticated (not the web interface which allows anonymous but the client interface). I need to do something similar in a Zope environment, that is to say that I want to be sure that all users have authenticated themselves and that the scripts can find out who they are, but I do not want to make them Managers or Owners. I suppose that the answer to this is to create a new role (say "User") and make sure that all the users are enroled in that role and then only allow users with that role to view the objects that I wish to control in this manner. I am relatively new to Zope, and have read the manual, but I am none the wiser either as to whether this is the right approach, or as to how I go about adding such a new role and then how I add such a security filter so that only users with this role can access the objects, there only seems to be controls for Anonymous, Manager and Owner.

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userfolder for interbase
by Zope 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hi, Is there anyone how autenticates users from a interbase table? I search for a userfolder product that authenticates in that way. May someone solved this problem? Please let me know Using Win2000 Zope 2.3.2 gvibDA0-9-6 Interbase 6.0 Cheers Jens

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Re: Oracle Error Messages
by Chris McDonough 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Ricardo, Yes, I think you can only catch all exceptions or a string exception with dtml-try... I would suggest catching them all with <dtml-try><dtml-except> (although I know you claim it doesn't work). I can't help you much here if you're having problems any further than what's in the docs, I only use DTML in the simplest presentation code, never anything that requires a <dtml-try>. If you can't get <dtml-try> to work I might suggest using an external method instead of a DTML method, importing the error class into it from DCOracle and catching that in the place where the error occurs. - C PS - I am cc'ing the Zope list on this message.. if possible, please send further questions to the list... thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ricardo Seghizzi To: Chris McDonough Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:21 PM Subject: Oracle Error Messages Hi Chris, I created a website that connect to an Oracle 8.0 DB. My web application is working fine. I created a web application that access a external DB in only 2 weeks! And during this period I as learning Zope and DTML as well. Not to bad... Zope is wonderfull... When my application runs and access the Database if an error occurs the oracle error will be displayed on the page. I wold like to know how could I catch the error and handle the error message to give something more understandable for my end users? I try to use <dtml-try> and <dtml-exepcion> but I didn't manage to make it work. Do you kown how this cold be done? Regards' Ricardo

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zope interface suggestion
by Jason Byron 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Why don't we add three single letter links to each line of the objects listed in zope's web interface? Say 'R', for Rename 'C/P' for Copy and Paste , and 'D' for Delete. We could add it between the Name and the Size. It could simply look like: R C/P D That sure would make things quicker. Anyone want a new project? :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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BLOB from PotgreSQL on web page
by Vid B 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

I am using Zope 2.3 and PSQL 7.1 After installing the adapters Popy and ZPopyDA it has been working very well. But I have one concern and one problem. Problem I am storing BLOBs in PSQL using lo_import, and exporting them to the file system using lo_export. But I cannot figure out how to display them directly from the database to the web page. Concern What is more efficient? To store files as BLOBs in PSQL or to store the files to Zope and store link to the file in PSQL. Files will be of different format: jpg, gif, pdf, wpd, doc, ... Vid __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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file upload to mysql
by Tamas Amon 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hello, I try to put a file to a mysql database. I readed the HOW-TO: http://www.zope.org/Members/cclljj/howto/image_upload_retrive And when I try it, to import as an external method, i get the next error: Error Type: ImportError Error Value: cannot import name MySQL for this line: from Products.ZMySQLDA import MySQL How can I solve this problem? Or how can I use the MySQL.escape() function? (Because this need it.) Thanks a lot. Amon Tamas sajt(a)amon.hu

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object id and URL
by Phat Phish 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

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Request for ideas (indexing documents).
by Jason C. Leach 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

hi, I have a lot of documents I would must index. They may or may not be stored in Zope (perhaps a local FS). I need to: display type (.doc or .pdf) display name provide description (short/detailed) display size display date created/modifie. provide searching capability. on name, description. Right now Zope does most of that. I just add them as files and do a bit of DTML to display a table listing of the files. The description is not yet there; or the searching. Thanks, j. ...................... ..... Jason C. Leach ..

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Is anybody really working on digest auth?
by Clint Byrum 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

I'm just wondering if anybody's working on a digest authentication yet. Currently I only admin zope from the localhost... but I'd like to be able to do it remotely. I can do it with SSL, but this seems like overkill. So I ask, is digest authentication coming soon at all? Thanks. Clint Byrum ERP.COM/PlanetEBI

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