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Speaking of Python Methods....
by Steve Drees 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

What's the PythonMethod equivalent of: <dtml-with callTypes> <dtml-var "_.getitem(_.str(2)).Name"> </dtml-with> -- Steve Drees SysAdmin/Software Developer/Web Geek/Chief Bottle Washer "A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved." http://www.christianmp3zone.com/savanna

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Executing Z SQL Methods via a URL request
by Nick McDowell 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Hi, I have a Z SQL method that requires an id value which it users to perform a select statement. I am trying to pass this id value via a URL, which calls a DTML method who in turn calls the Z SQL Method. I have been using URL which looks like: http://localhost/getarticle.html?id=23. Getarticle.html contains only one line - <dtml-call testselect> and testselect is the Z SQL method performing the db select. I have tried several different combinations but nothing seems to work. Does anybody know if this is possible and if so what am I doing wrong? Cheers Nick

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Error Installing PKT
by Dany Rioux 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

I just installed PKT and I can't import DemoPortal.zexp. I get this error ----------<PASTE>-------- Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: ImportError Error Value: No module named PythonMethod.PythonMethod ---------</PASTE>-------- I would guess I'm missing some module. Anyone can tell me which one it is? TIA. Dany ---.oo0O--------------O0oo.-------- Dany Rioux UnderSoft Inc. Business www.dating-reviews.com rdany(a)dating-reviews.com Personal www.drioux.com rdany(a)drioux.com -------.o00O-------O00o.-----------

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Multiple ZODBC sources
by Capesius, Alan 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

I need to join tables from two ODBC sources, one MS Access one SQL. ZODBC DA seems to be limited to one data source at a time. Is there any way to join tables from two different sources? Alan Capesius, MCSE+20 Technical Support Engineer Sysmex Corporation of America capesiusa(a)sysmex.com

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sort
by konteXXt＠t-online.de 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Hello again, I want to sort catalog results e.g. by title alphabetical. But when I type sort_on='title' I see the titles in order by bobobase-modification-time. What I am doing wrong ? Thanks for help Mechtild-- in der Heimat tut sich was: http://www.wolterdingen.de konteXXt - Web-Konzept-Text-Design 07705 / 919391

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Exception msg rendering
by seb bacon 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

LoginManager displays a login form by calling a page something like this: <dtml-raise "'LoginRequired'"> <html> <form action="foo">  </form> </html> </dtml-raise> this works fine on one of my boxen but not the other. The bust one raises the exception but doesn't print the message. Instead it renders my standard_html_header and standard_html_footer, with the stack trace in comments at the bottom of the page. Please! Can anyone point me a what might be causing this to happen? cheers seb

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RE: [Zope] Search and replace
by Lee Hunter 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Martin Winkler wrote > I just wanted to express that this feature may be too hard to > program for > the (IMHO) rare cases that we really need it, but IF there I had understood that Python and Zope excelled at string manipulation. That's why I am surprised that it would be difficult to scan a folder full of documents to find a word and replace it with another (with the option of ignoring anything in pointed brackets). I'm not a programmer so I probably don't appreciate the complexities of the task, however in this case it seems like the object-oriented database is a hindrance rather than a help. If it was just a batch of html files I could search and replace through them with just about any piece of software on my desktop. I wouldn't know whether this is the sort of tool that is generally useful, but in my work I use search and replace all the time (if only to fix my endless confusion over 'its' and 'it's') Cheers Lee Hunter Hum Communications Ltd.

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Pseudo E-Mail Address validation
by Martin Winkler 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Hi all, For a subscription tool of a mailing list I'd like to quick-check the e-mail address our users type. Is there a little product/method etc. available that does this? I know that you can only be sure whether an e-mail address exists or not, when you actually send a mail to the user, but a quick-n-dirty check would be nice. Maybe even complete RFC-compliancy as implemented in some Perl-Modules? (spaces, "@" sign, dot-notation etc.) Hoping for an answer, Martin

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DTMLTemplate + PythonMethod == separate code from HTML?
by Thiebaut CHAMPENIER 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

In fact, I find it too hard to code something using DTML, that's why I'd like to use good old python and to keep only variable substitution in my HTML (dtml-var, or maybe just &dtml-my_variable; which is an easier to use form of it, or maybe replace it with @my_var@ or smth like that, which I would find even easier!) I'd like to be able to delimit blocks in an HTML file and to use these blocks from a python program, the goal is to completely separate the code from the design (HTML). With DTML, the code and the design are mixed. it would look like this: def index_html(_): "Display a list of items taken from the products database" if not check_password(): return bad_password_page query_result = my_zsql_query(_) if not query_result: return my_template.no_result result = ReturnStream() result.add( my_template.header ) for line in query.result: result.add( my_template.one_line, line ) result.add( my_template.footer ) and my_template would be an HTML file with <dtml-block> tags that delimit the header, one_line and footer blocks. The one_line block would use some variables defined in the line dictionary; for example: <dtml-block one_line> <tr><td>@item@</td><td>@quantity@</td><td>@price@</td></tr> </dtml-block> The DTMLTemplate and PythonMethods products seem to provide this kind of separation between code and design, but I did not manage to get them working properly together: DTMLTemplate: when I display a block (using <dtml-var "my_template.my_block">), the HTML tags in my_block appear quoted, should I use a fmt="html" or something like that to avoid the quoting? PythonMethods: how can I access Zope objects from my method? Typically I'd like to call a template block from my method, but just using my_template.my_block doesn't work. As you can see, I'm not a Zope guru, but I'm willing to learn! I believe that Zope and PTK have a big role to play in the current portal and application servers war... ready to use portal-in-a-box products cost around $100,000... so for that price you can use zope and afford more consulting and coding services! BTW, currently I'm experiencing a problem: no images (icons, ZopeButton etc..) appear on my management pages, images stored in the ZODB are ok though. any idea where are those images like http://localhost:8080/p_/ZopeButton ? Thanks for your time!

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Support for PHP?
by Ben Ocean 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Hi; I'm reading *the book* and it appears that Zope supports Perl and Python but *not* PHP :(( Well, I'm learning Python and I have a limited but working knowledge of PHP: I really *don't* want to have to learn Perl because, although there's lots of stuff out there written in Perl, PHP (IMHO) is better suited for the Internet than Perl. (I don't mean to offend any Perl officionados out there.) So... Is there, or will there be support for PHP? Will I be able to somehow cobble an interface between Zope and my PHP programs? Also (without getting too far OT) can I do pretty much anything I can do in PHP in Python? TIA, BenO

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