May 2002 - Zope - Zope lists

cookies "expires setting with new values"
by Hamzat Kamal 08 May '02

08 May '02

Dear All, I wanted to know what will happened to the cookies if another value is passed to the it before the expires attribute set is lapsed. Thanks. ===== Hamzat kamaldeen Ishola Dnet Systems Limited 223 Ikorodu Road, Lagos. Nigeria. 234 1 7749381, 234 08033011305 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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LDAPUserFolder and Zope 2.5.1
by Josef Meile 08 May '02

08 May '02

As I know, LDAP it's a standard protocol to access a user database on a server. I also read that by using LDAP you can read and write on this database. In my case, I only have read permissions and I'm not allowed to see the database internal structure neither to change it. I've tried to get it work but it doesn't and don't know why. I Just create a schema as follows: LDAP Server: ldap.myorganization.ch Login name attribute: uid RDN Attribute: Canonical name Users base DN: ou=student,o=myorganization,c=ch Scope: Subtree Group storage: Groups not stored on LDAP server Groups Base DN: same as Users base DN (I don't know what else can I put here and I don't have more info) LDAPLogin and Pasword are empty User object classes: top,person User password encryption: crypt Default User Roles: Anonymous Authentication: Basic HTTP Authentication Next I added the group student and assigned it my local Zope role Student. My question is how can I populate my user folder? I saw the feature add user, but I need to add 500 hundred users and I guess this is not the way of doing it and I don't see anythin on the Caches tab. My logic says my that this feature is only if you want to add users to your ldap database. But I rather than add want to authenticate them. Because I don't have any result when I search by uid, I just made this: <dtml-in "findUser('sn','lastname')"> <dtml-var "_['sequence-item']"> </dtml-in> And then I saw a dictionary with lots of fields, but not uid. I'm just wondering why. I guess the authentication looks for this username and then gives the password. Whenever I observe the log contents, I see always somethin like: (9) Apr 29 20:37:55: userx not found (getUser) Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advanced, Josef.

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path to argument rewrite
by Russell Uman 08 May '02

08 May '02

howdy. i'm writing a zope page that generates dynamic content based on the query string in the URL. for example: http://index_html?content=introduction is different from http://index.html?content=contact some search engines have trouble indexing pages by query strings. a common way around this is to use a path instead of a query string in the URL and rewrite the path as a query string. so: http://index_html/content/introduction is rewritten as http://index_html?content=introduction by the webserver. i know how to use a rewrite rule in apache to do this. i've heard that this is doable in Zope. but i can't find any documentation on how to do this. can anyone help? thanks!

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Quick question about <dtml-if ...>
by George M. Ellenburg 08 May '02

08 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction the other day. I have a quick question regarding <dtml-if ...> (I'm up to Chapter 4 in the Zope Book right now.) If I have a URI like this: GET /foo?a=3 And the corresponding DTML contains: <dtml-if expr="a=3">  </dtml-if> ....Wouldn't this evaluate the Python expression? I've tried doing: <dtml-if a=3>  </dtml-if> But received a syntax error. So I guess my question is, I thought the expr argument brought the DTML script outside the scope of the website. I'm not trying to call any external methods. Have I completely lost it now? ;-) (Don't answer that, please.) Regards, - -- George M. Ellenburg <george(a)ellenburg.org> <http://www.ellenburg.org/> 3 Years and counting of being 100% Microsoft-free; and much more productive. Proud user of ASK <http://www.paganini.net/ask/>, the Active Spam Killer! - --- "Grub first, then ethics." -- Bertolt Brecht -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE82RNrFItzMEWZZdgRAlttAJwPMq3i6CHNetuL4+0/Ao3CTZ36RQCfazlw 6MaCzzcpvxh+14TjBVuigDo= =hmKr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mod_pcgi2 version 2.0.1
by Oleg Broytmann 08 May '02

08 May '02

Hello! I am pleased to announce mod_pcgi2 version 2.0.1 - Apache module for Zope/PCGI. WHAT'S NEW in version 2.0.1 Updated for latest Apache2. Tested with Apache 1.3.24 and 2.0.36. Apache2 should be patched to properly configure and build the module. WHERE TO GET http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/ AUTHOR Oleg Broytmann <phd(a)phd.pp.ru> LICENSE GPL Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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Re: [Zope] how to access the owner of an object?
by Brian Lalor 08 May '02

08 May '02

Following up to my own post here, after finding the answer pretty much verbatim in the ASPN-archived list. I created a python script (proxy-permissioned via Manager) that does return context.owner_info()['id'] Seems like that's the kind of thing that should be in the Zope Book. Where does that method come from? According to the Zope Book, it isn't part of either ObjectManagerItem or PropertyManger... B -- Brian Lalor blalor(a)ithacabands.org

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Re: ZopeTime() Error
by Martijn Pieters 08 May '02

08 May '02

First of all, please use the zope(a)zope.org mailinglist for Zope related questions, the zope-web list os for Zope.org (website) issues only. On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:32:17PM -0600, Mike Tran wrote: > I can call the <dtml-var ZopeTime()> variable from Zope's root folder, but > i cannot access this variable from anyother sub folders. Zope's traceback is > telling me that the 'ZopeTime' variable is not defined globally. Can anyone > show me how to fix this please? thanx. Please use <dtml-var ZopeTime> or <dtml-var name="ZopeTime"> (equivalent) or use <dtml-var "ZopeTime()"> or <dtml-var expr="ZopeTime()"> (again, both equivalent). <dtml-var ZopeTime()> looks up an object with the full name "ZopeTime()" (including the parens) which does not exist. See the Zope Book on Zope.org, chapters on DTML for more info on the difference. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@zope.com | Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------

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RE: [Zope] How to check type of variable in DTML
by Schmidt, Allen J. 08 May '02

08 May '02

Nope. That throws a strange error and generates a very odd looking SQL statement which is not valid. Even if I declare it as a list type in the parameters, and use multiple in sqltest, the sql that is rendered tries to escape all the single quotes around each one of the list items and has no idea what to do with the [ ] square brackets. I'll keep banging on it. Thanks -Allen > >From what I have seen, Zope does not do this. The link you sent has nothing > relating to this issue. > #sorry. ive seem it somewhere. try "multiple" > > If I send in a string to a ZSQL method and the first block below is in the > WHERE clause, then it strips off the first and last letters. > > If I send in a list like ['Ford','Toyota',''] then is takes the [ and ] > off and gives me the correct IN syntax. > > I need to see if the variable coming in is a list or just a string and > branch accordingly. Maybe I am going about it all wrong but this is what I > am trying to do now. > Subject: Re: [Zope] How to check type of variable in DTML > > "Schmidt, Allen J." wrote: > > > I am passing a variable to a ZSQL method and I need to check whether its a > > string or a list before it is part of a WHERE statement. How can I check > > this? > > > > you dont need to. Zope can do this for you. > especially <dtml-sqlvar ...> and <dtml-sqltest> > see > http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/ZSQLMethods-InsertingData > > > <dtml-if mk> > > CMAKE IN ( <dtml-var "mk[1:-1}"> ) > > </dtml-if> > > > > This works well if its a list but blows up if just a string. > > Needs to be like this: > > > > <dtml-if mk is_A_list> > > CMAKE IN ( <dtml-var "mk[1:-1}"> ) > > <dtml-else> > > <dtml-var sqltest mk column=CMAKE type=nb optional> > > </dtml-if> -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Who's got only a hammer sees the world as a nail hans augustin (software developer) hans(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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RE: [Zope] Quick question about <dtml-if ...>
by Schmidt, Allen J. 08 May '02

08 May '02

I'll second that. ALL our stuff is in many, many DTML docs and methods. I have been looking over ZPT stuff for a while and trying to make sense of it. One thing that really helped in studying for comparison was creating a new Z Search Method. Choose an existing ZSQL method and then choose to have one rendered in ZPT and then another done with DTML and compare the results. It really helps getting a handle on the concept. My problem is that I do lots of little things with dtml-if statements all over a DTML page to get the results I want. I know it should be done in Python but its hard to switch once your mentality is focused one way. I think our next big project will use ZPT as a test. We'll see....depends on the imposed deadline. My $.02 -Allen -----Original Message----- From: George M. Ellenburg [mailto:george@ellenburg.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:48 AM To: Harry Wilkinson; zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Quick question about <dtml-if ...> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 08 May 2002 09:32 am, Harry Wilkinson wrote: > Well that's furry muff, if you don't want to use it. I don't use it > because it plays nicely with HTML editors, though (I don't remember the > last time I used one, it was bloody ages ago), I use it because it's got > excellent seperation between content and presentation. As for XML not > being a programming language... ZPT isn't a programming language, it's a > templating language. DTML is, well.... to me, DTML occupies some fuzzy > ground in the middle where it's got the templating stuff but it's all mixed > up with the programming aspect, and it gets easily confused. All I was saying is that the ZPT stuff seems even more confusing to me than the DTML stuff. - -- George M. Ellenburg <george(a)ellenburg.org> <http://www.ellenburg.org/> 3 Years and counting of being 100% Microsoft-free; and much more productive. Proud user of ASK <http://www.paganini.net/ask/>, the Active Spam Killer! - --- Cancel me not -- for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain. -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE82SyTFItzMEWZZdgRApuoAJ9cncjA7ACuCK+4fX69ifj4E4LHZQCeMur0 2xxtXCP6a8RTHaJn8yg/5+0= =Tvvi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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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Help!
by Michael 08 May '02

08 May '02

I have 3 different versions of Zope running on my machine. 2.33, 2.41, 2,43. I was working on my site in 2.41 and shut it down and started up 2.33 to export some items. I then shut down 2.33 and fired up 2.41 again and when I logged into the management interface, everything was gone. My site folder, all of my installed products, and the wierdest thing of all, I had to delete the default index_html file in my root folder to get apache to work properly, and it is back! It looks just like I just installed it from the tarball. I checked the 2.43 site and everything in it is gone also. The 2.33 install is still fine. I have backups, but is this normal behavior??? Michael

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