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How to select pictures from another folder?
by Sorin Marti 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

I've got a dtml-method index. There I want to call a picture, I do it like this: <dtml-var picture> That works fine... But now I want to get a picture which is in another folder. <dtml-var Images.picture> and <dtml-var Images/picture> don't work... how to do that? Thanks Sorin Marti

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STX - how to add new function
by Jaroslav Lukesh 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Hi all, I want to add into STX two new functions - line break with syntax: paragraph text ;; linebreak text And blockquote tag ,, This is indented paragraph (tag marks should be other) I'm not big pythonist, would someone help me with that, please. Many thanks, J. Lukesh

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Zope Installation Problems
by Sheppard Norfleet 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

I am using Rad Hat Linux 7.x. which comes with python 2.2 not the problem. I have Zope that has a python 2.1 one with it. when I try to build w_pcgi.py using the python that comes with zope, I get compile errors when trying to build the exception modules, the last message has a message like "I and PICKY raiseError" There are a ton of warning and a few errors sprinkled in a compiler output (or at least it looks like that). Anyway I have been working at this installation for about a week, I have tried a source install and binary install. No matter which way I go zope fails to build using the 2.1 python that comes with it. Has anyone else had these problems? Trying to run Zope like this: bin/python z2.py -p /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/zope.pcgi all I get in return is a new bash prompt wiht no warnings. the log files are empty or don't exist. Please help! BTW, don't mean to knock mailing lists but wouldnt forums be a lot easier way to communicate? Just a thought...

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do I need to build a product for this?
by sameer chaudhry 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

I have done this using products but I'm wonder if the following is easier done within the Zope machinery. I want to have a python list at a URL say: some_server/list I want to update that list by appending a line of text to it by going to the URL: someserver/list/updatelist I want to see the updated list by going to the URL: someserver/list/viewlist. Is this possible without building a Product which supports the persistence of the list? -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife

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Python calling python?
by Michael Havard 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Somebody make this simple for me. I have two python scripts (internal not external). I want to call the first script using DTML/ZPT. I have no problem in that regard... BUT... I want to call then use th first script to call the second script. As soon as I try to include that functionality it falls apart. If I try to import I get 'not authorized'. If I try to access it the same way I do ZSQL methods 'context.whatevername()' I get "whatevername" not defined. What am I missing? Is it a security thing? Did I miss some important piece of documentation? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Installing PIL on binary dist. of Zope 2.6.1 on Linux...
by Meehan, Francois 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hi all, I need to install PIL on a Zope server, that was installed from a binary distribution. How can I install PIL in the Python version that came with Zope? Francois

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dtml files in dtml files? getting frames to work on a simple Product
by sameer chaudhry 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

I am trying to write a simple web based chat server Product. The interface is simple with a frame for entering text, and another frame for viewing the chat so far. My problem is that in a dtml file, I put links to two other dtml files (those being the two frames), and the frames don't show up. How can I make this work? -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife

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Zope+Oracle efficieny (was Re: [Zope-DB] ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, Version 1.0.0)
by Dario Lopez-Kästen 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Browning" <paul.browning(a)bristol.ac.uk> > --On 28 February 2003 18:55 +0100 "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal(a)lemburg.com> wrote: > > <List of features snipped> > > Can someone who has a deeper understanding of this area than > I please contrast (ideally against the mxODBC Zope DA feature list) > things with ZOracleDA/DCOracle2? > > The links from <http://www.egenix.com/> took me eventually to > <http://www.datadirect-technologies.com/products/odbc/ken-north-report.asp> > and the "Oracle ODBC Performance - Faster than Native" stuff. > > >From birth I've always been told ODBC is sloooowww .... don't go > there. Might mxODBC Zope DA offer advantages to Zope/Oracle sites? > > We've had a tortured history with Zope+Oracle+Solaris (cf. > <http://www.zope.org/Members/glpb/solaris>) and are about to > side-step this by going Zope+Oracle+Linux. > > But the Oracle bit (i.e. ZOracleDA/DCOracle2) of the equation still > looks dubious from time to time and so hence my questions. > well, I am no expert either but AFAIK Oracle uses SQL*NET for ODBC communications (ODBC sits on top of SQL*NET). Not sure if this is slower or not. I also have the impression that ODBC is slower per se, but perhaps coupled with better connection pooling it makes mxODBC faster? Nad how would mxODBC's pooling differ from Zope's "pooling" of connections by keping them open? I understand from previous mailexchange that the preformance of a heavly DB driven (DB=RDBMS) is in part defined by the amount of ZODB-connections as well as the amount of threads available to the Zope-process. I wonder though if the *sheer number* of active/connected ZOracleDA objects in the ZODB has some relevance to those numbers (ie. more open DA objects means increase threads and/or ZODB connections?). I have not read any specific numbers and I have yet to begin to understand how the amount of ZODB connections has an impact on the usage of ZOracleDA connections/objects. We do have experienced problems when using many connections to different schemas and I know that at least one more person has experienced similar problems (mem leaks, etc). Some of them wnet away as we reduced the amount of DA objects. Also, I would like to know how the kind of connection pooling that mxODBC uses benefits Zope. Does it spawn it's own threads in an external process or how does it work? Would it be possible to increase the performance of DCOracle2 by using similar tchniques? Thanks, /dario

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3rd party eloctronic payment solutions
by AM 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Does anybody have any experience with integrating third party electronic payment solutions with a zope site? If yes which one would you recommend? ANs how hard or easy is it to do it? Thanks AM -- ================================================================== Aseem Mohanty Neurobehavioral Systems Inc, 828 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706 (R) 510 7696011 (M) 510 3014871 (O) 510 5279231 ================================================================== "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there!!" -- Steve Gonedes ==================================================================

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restoring deleted data
by Back, Elyssa 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Good morning, I am Zope newbie who used the program in December to build a medium-sized site. I installed Zope on my work computer and did all my development there. When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect.... I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it. Thanks so much! Elyssa ************** It is impossible for us simply to serve soup and provide shelter without crying out that homelessness is a gross injustice and an indictment of a society that has so much and yet will not make available to all persons the basic necessities of food and housing. -Ed Loring, The Open Door Community, Atlanta

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