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Idiots guide to installing Zope
by christiaan 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Hi. > > I am doing some research for a website that I am building for a non-profit making website. > An important function of the website will be a news section. > I understand that Zope will be able to assist with the editorial process. > I have downloaded three versions of zope to check it out and so far I have not managed to get one installed. > Could you please send me an idiots guide to installing Zope on a windows 98 home pc. > I have also downloaded squishdot. Could you please point me in the direction of what zope applications may be useful for a news web site? I look forward to your reply. > Christiaan

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simple DTML-VAR question for Images
by Jaymer 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

I'm having a brain fart... So, if I'm in my standard footer, for example, and I want to display an image, but the image is located in a SUBDIRECTORY, then how can I reference that Image Object since it is "below" my current path and the <DTML-var> acquisition stuff won't work? It makes sense to place all images in a common subdir, and I obviously don't want to hardcode the path into the footer. I've seen the way squishdot uses their advertising method, for example, to place a banner add and link at the top... but I don't want to do through all that. I'm sure I'm just missing a piece of syntax. tia, jaymer...

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copying Data.fs
by Donald Braman 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

I'm trying to move a site from Linux to Win2000. Zope is installed and running on both. I shut down both zope servers. I copy the Data.fs file. I start up the Win2000 Zope server. It give me an error. Are there special tricks involved here? I haven't found documentation on platform migration...is there any? I'll send back more detailed error messages/logs if I'm following correct procedure. Don

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How to pass values from python script back to calling dtml-method ???
by Anton A. Zotov 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

Greeting, people ! I may seem completely ignorant, but Zope namespaces are driving me wild for the last couple of days :-( I need to solve a pretty simple task: I have a dtml-method which calls a Python script. When that python script is through, it has a variable (say, returnValue="return value"). How can I access this variable in calling dtml method ? Please help !!!!

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Broken Zope installation
by Mayers, Philip J 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

<Sigh> I appear to have a broken Zope installation. Some of the problems: 1) I have a set of PythonScripts and DTML methods which do the logic and presentation. All of the PythonScript can do this: print context.dtml_method(context,REQUEST,param1=data,param2=data) Fine. However, this site was imported from a previous installation. Any new PythonScripts (or any attempt to edit the existing ones) fail to do that, saying that: Error Type: TypeError Error Value: call of non-function (type list) I really don't think that the DTML method is of type list - this happens with old or new DTML methods, and old&modified or new PythonScripts alike. The weird part is that (provided you don't modify them) the old scripts work fine... 2) Restart or Shutdown from the Control Panel link fail with an error 5 (I/O error) - this only happens intermittently. I'm running the source release on RedHat 6.2 sparc - are there any architechtural issues? Cheers, Phil

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RE: copying Data.fs
by Donald Braman 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Doh. Nevermind, once I packed the database it worked fine. -Don -----Original Message----- From: Donald Braman [mailto:donald.braman@yale.edu] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 5:14 PM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: copying Data.fs I'm trying to move a site from Linux to Win2000. Zope is installed and running on both. I shut down both zope servers. I copy the Data.fs file. I start up the Win2000 Zope server. It give me an error. Are there special tricks involved here? I haven't found documentation on platform migration...is there any? I'll send back more detailed error messages/logs if I'm following correct procedure. Don

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How best to "filter" all HTML output?
by Kyler B. Laird 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

I would like to use a common filter for the HTML output of any object in a folder. I want users to upload whatever HTML they want (from whatever horrible HTML generator) but then I want to be able to modify the HTML that results from that object. As a simple example, I want to be able to replace whatever is in "<title>" with the title of the object. I don't want the user to have to think about this; it should just happen any time an object generates HTML. (I realize that templates will eventually do something similar, but it will require that the user invoke the functionality.) I've thought of some ways to do this poorly. It will be such a big part of what we're doing however, that it is worthwhile for me to find an elegant solution. (I've done similar things in Apache over the years, but Zope has the potential to do it *much* better.) BTW, this functionality is sometimes used by providers wanting to force advertisements on their users' pages. That's not what I'm doing, but it is similar. (I seek to provide consistent navigation tools.) When I look at "Folder w/Customizer Support" I feel like I'm probably staring at the answer, but I'm not getting far in understanding it. I'd like to know if that's the right direction. Any thoughts? Thank you. --kyler

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Zope Contractor needed
by Timothy Grant 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Hi all, We have gotten involved in a project, and have just had our contractor bail on us. We need someone with Zope/PostgreSQL expertise for a fairly small (couple of week) project who is able to start immediately. If you are interested please send me a resume and let me know. Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant tjg(a)exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer www.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. <>< (503) 246-3630 >>>>>>>>>>>>>Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal<<<<<<<<< >>>>This machine was last rebooted: 66 days 1:43 hours ago<<

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tree view in LocalFS
by David Kulp 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

LocalFS has a property "Display in Tree View" which says: This controls whether the Local File System object will be displayed in the management tree and other instances of the <dtml-tree> tag. Indeed, checking this box causes the tree to appear in the left zope panel, but if I create my dtml method then the localFS can not be traversed in a dtml-tree. The localFS displays as a branch but there is no '+' to traverse it. Any thoughts? Thanks, David.

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RE: [Zope] <input type=hidden value='<dtml-var x>' name=x> and L OOP
by servel yannick 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

hi, servel stringify your i's: s = s + "<input type=hidden value='%s' name='filename%s'>" % ((REQUEST.filename + str(i)), i) or you can iterator = str(i) s = s + "<input type=hidden value='%s' name='filename%s'>" % ((REQUEST.filename + iterator)), iterator) ----------------------------------------------------- Hello Jim, I already tried to stringified my i's during my preview attempts. Here is the message error I received when I attempted to use this kind of solutions: <html><head><title>yannick</title></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="TOP"> <td width="10%" align="center"> <img src="http://ltg2.comp.glam.ac.uk:8080/p_/ZButton" alt="Zope"> </td> <td width="90%"> <h2>Zope Error</h2> <p>Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.</p> <p> <strong>Error Type: KeyError</strong><br> <strong>Error Value: filename</strong><br> </p> <hr noshade> <p>Troubleshooting Suggestions</p> <ul> <li>This resource may be trying to reference a nonexistent object or variable <strong>filename</strong>.</li> <li>The URL may be incorrect.</li> <li>The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect.</li> <li>A resource that this resource relies on may be encountering an error.</li> </ul> <p>For more detailed information about the error, please refer to the HTML source for this page. </p> <p>If the error persists please contact the site maintainer. Thank you for your patience. </p> </td></tr> </table> <p><a href="http://www.zope.org/Credits" target="_top"><img src="http://ltg2.comp.glam.ac.uk:8080/p_/ZopeButton" width="115" height="50" border="0" alt="Powered by Zope" /></a></p></body></html>  For some reasons, it refuses to add filename to i even when i is "stringified". Regards, Yannick

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