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Re: [Zope] Beginner DTML
by Tim Fouracre 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Hiya >better forget all about DTML and go for >http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/ZPT I have started learning ZPT, and although I don't want to discourage anyone from using it, i would say that for a complete beginner it would be better to start off with DTML. I say this as there is little documentation on ZPT at present, and the documentation that there is, i.e. the examples that show you how to do things are all DTML conversions, so you will be a bit stuck if you don't know DTML in the first place. As for where to find DTML documentation, there are tons of tutorials at zope.org. cheers Tim _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Newbie Question/Where's Document Root?
by Kevin Kitts 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

I've installed the latest RedHat rpms from Jeff Rush's site onto a RedHat 7.1 system. I'm not using Apache - just the ZServer. Everything is working fine. Just curious, where the heck is the Document Root? What directory do the files get loaded into as you add files to the root folder? Thanks, Kevin

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Interbase and Date datatype
by Michael Schulz 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Dear List, i am using zope2.3.1, python 1.5.2 and interbase adapter gvibda096. I am accessing an interbase DATE type column via a zsql-method and want to reformat the returned date (yyyy/mm/dd), but i can't figure out how? I tried without success: 1.) <dtml-var "_.DateTime(_['gueltig_von'])"></td> Error: AttributeError 2.) <dtml-var "gueltig_von.strftime('%d.%m.%Y')"> Error: File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 334, in eval (Object: gueltig_von.strftime('%d.%m.%Y')) (Info: gueltig_von) File <string>, line 0, in ? File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 127, in careful_getattr AttributeError: (see above) 3.) With this script: |#create_date(datum_string) | from string import split, join | list_date = split(datum_string,"/") | return list_date[2]+"."+list_date[1]+"."+list_date[0] <dtml-var "create_date(datum=_['gueltig_von'])"> Error Type: TypeError Error Value: argument 1: expected read-only character buffer, instance found File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-src/lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/PythonScript.py, line 336, in _exec (Object: create_date) (Info: ({'script': <PythonScript instance at 8cdc120>, 'context': <r instance at 8add6e8>, 'container': <Folder instance at 8cdbb98>, 'traverse_subpath': []}, (), {'datum': <Products.gvibDA.gvib.gvib.Date instance at 8cff7b8>}, None)) File Script (Python), line 5, in create_date TypeError: (see above) Could anybody think of another method to reformat the column values or has this problem to do with gvibda? TIA, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Schulz in medias res GmbH, D-79100 Freiburg

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Stupid question? :)
by Stephen Hansen 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Alriiighty. What i'm wanting to do is to put up a 'news' table for the side of my page -- think, www.zope.org -- 'News'? :) The way I have it set up is a News/ subfolder, with an Items/ folder beneath it that has a group of dtml documents in the format of YY-MM-DD.SS, with a title that describes what the news is about. SS is a serial number, btw, in case there's more then one news in a day. Now, the News/content_html method should basically build a list, and transform the id into "MM/DD/20YY (#SS) title". How do I do that? :) Being a zope-newbie, I tried the following: --------------- <ul> <dtml-in expr="Items.objectValues()"> <li><dtml-eval> anchor_text = ":%s:%s/%s/20%s (#%s) %s" % ( id,id[3:5], id[6:8], id[0:2], id[-2:], title) </dtml-eval><dtml-var anchor_text> </dtml-in> </ul> ---------- ...except id is apparently not a string, nor something sliceable... what do I dooo? :) Thanks in advance! --Stephen http://www.myseraph.org/

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Overrinding a method which doesn't belong to a class
by Valérie Aulnette 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Hi ! I am trying to override a method that doesn't belong to a class. I am doing : """ from module import manage_addSomething def my_own(..): self... import module module.manage_addSomething = my_own """ Any hints ? ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Vos albums photos en ligne, Yahoo! Photos : http://fr.photos.yahoo.com

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HotFixing methods of modules (not classes)
by Peter Bengtsson 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

I read and used this http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/Dynamic_Hotfix This works great for changing methods and stuff inside classes, but what about stuff that isn't inside the class? (Maybe more of a Python question rather than Zope) --- module.py ---------- def manage_addSomething(self,id): self._setObject(id,Something(id)) class Something(SimpleItem): def __init__(self,id): self.id = id del somemethod(self): return "hello" ---------------------------- This I can HotFix like this: ---- hotfix: __init__.py -------------- # import class from module import Something def myown(self):return "Hello!" Something.somemethod = myown -------------------------------------- But it is this that I can't get to work. Here I need help: ---- buggyhotfix: __init__.py -------------- # import function from module import manage_addSomething def myown(self,id): id = string.upper(id) self._setObject(id,Something(id)) module.manage_addSomething = myown -------------------------------------- it's the "module.manage_addSomething = myown" part that looks like the evil thing. Any hints? Cheers, Peter

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Idea for a new "basic" class
by Max Møller Rasmussen 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

During my process of discovering Zope, I have made quite a few products. I have allways found that there is a lot of repeated functionality and code just to get them up and running. I have an idea for a "basic" class to be added to the Zope framework that sets up the most comonly used mixin classes, and sets up sensible default values for them. So to make a very simple Zope product you just need to write:: from basic import basic class minimal(basic): meta_type = 'minimal' And it would set up a fully functional product with id, and title as default vales. manageAdd, manageAction, manage_editForm, manage_editAction, and index_html would also be included by default. If you want to add more properties you would just overwrite "_properties" from basic import basic class minimal(basic): meta_type = 'minimal' _properties=( {'id':'title', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'summary', 'type':'text', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'content', 'type':'text', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'author', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'url', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'email', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, ) And the manageAdd, manageAction, manage_editForm, manage_editAction, and index_html would change dynamically to fit the new properties. You could also add new methods, or overwrite the default ones like:: from basic import basic from global import DTMLFile class minimal(basic): meta_type = 'minimal' _properties=( {'id':'title', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'summary', 'type':'text', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'content', 'type':'text', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'author', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'url', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'email', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, ) index_html = DTMLFile('www/index_html', globals()) view = DTMLFile('www/view', globals()) edit = DTMLFile('www/edit', globals()) I believe that it would _greatly_ simplify the process of writing Python products. Taking the minimal needed code to get started from something like 40 lines to 3. Does it sound like a waste of time to write this class?? I think it would be fairly easy, but would anybody use it? And is it possible to get something like this into the core? If so I am willing to write it. regards Max M

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Re: [Zope] Mozilla and Tabs in Textareas
by Anthony Baxter 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

>>> Christian Zagrodnick wrote > Some guy screamed for entering tabs in mozilla's textareas. Here is a patch > for the 0.9.2 version and my favorite .mozconfig. I found no way to change > the keybindings via config file but as the code looks to me this is not > possible anyway. Build mozilla with `gmake -f client.mk build' for those who care, mozilla's textarea cut'n'paste finally got the ability to actually copy and paste with destroying leading whitespace in the last couple of days. Anthony

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Browser Cache problem or ZServer problem
by Li Dongfeng 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Server: Linux 2.4 Zope 2.4.0b3 Browser: IE 5.5 Problem: some graph files won't load when viewing some pages. If I clear the browser cache, the problem goes away for a period of time. Viewing the server log shows that these graph file requests have an HTTP response status of 304, which means the file hasn't changed. Is this a browser problem or a ZServer problem? I have no such experience browsing other sites. Li Dongfeng

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How to filter unwanted strings within a form's textarea?
by Ausum 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

I need my local users to create content using html tags within a textarea, but I don't want them to include links to external images resources. My idea is to enable a filter that looks for the "http://www.whatever_ext_site.com" string within the img tag, and then erase it before posting the whole form data to the proper method. Is there a simple way for doing this? (If not, what is the hard way? :) ) Thanks in advance, Ausum

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