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Re: [Zope] Is data.fs corrupted?
by Stephan Goeldi 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

I just asked the question lately, if it is safe to simply delete a Product in the lib/python/Product folder, if it is not deletable via the Control_Panel. Some told me that it is no problem. Now I am more unsure to delete the stuff. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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RE: [Zope] <dtml-if> newbie question
by hohage 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Hallo Stephan you can't iterate over a string! That's working: <dtml-if "money=='1000'"> This is not much! <dtml-elif "money=='5000'"> This is ok! <dtml-else> This is very much! </dtml-if>

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RE: Wampum Generator (tar in WinZip)
by Harris Peter 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Hi Just want to mention one pitfall in WinZip - by default it CR/LFs all files extracted from a tar archive (unless you turn that option off). Note that the option is NOT on the "extract files" dialog. It hosed 150Mb of .deb files today - and I didn't realise until I had burned them onto a CD. I couldn't believe that was what it was doing at first. "Nah", I thought, "how would it know which files were binaries?" Turns out it doesn't know. It doesn't care either. In case you want to avoid this happening to you, note that PowerArchiver is more or less like WinZip but it can handle bzip2 as well, and it's FREE. Peter **************************************************************************** This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential. The contents may not be disclosed or used by anyone other than the addressee. If you have received this communication in error, please delete the message and notify JBB (Greater Europe) Plc immediately on 0141-249-6285. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of JBB (Greater Europe) PLC. As it has been transmitted over a public network, JBB (Greater Europe) PLC makes no representation nor accepts any liability for the email's accuracy or completeness unless expressly stated to the contrary. Should you, as the intended recipient, suspect that the message has been intercepted or amended, please notify JBB (Greater Europe) Plc immediately on 0141-249-6285. ****************************************************************************

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Re: [Zope] Re: [Image-SIG] Properly integrating PIL, reportlab, and zope
by ed colmar 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Ahha! To force zope (and reportlab) to use a different working directory, use: import os os.chdir('/usr/local/zope/differentdir/') still this is a pretty big workaround, but hey... It works! -e- > Hello ed, > > If you figure this out let me know. We tried several times and were > unsuccessful. we only have two files (logos) so it wasn't worth fighting > with. > > thanks, > > Dan > > > ed colmar wrote: > > > > Thanks for the help everyone! > > > > I'm a few steps closer to solving this one. What I'm doing is pretty much a > > workaround, since I can't figure out how to pass a image file directly from > > within the zodb. I have created a seperate field that gets passed to a > > localFS directory. > > > > Right now, I just need to refrence a file that is somewhere other than the > > /usr/local/zope directory. > > > > I've been trying: > > c.drawInlineImage(str('/home/zope/uploadedimages/' + filename), .5*inch, > > 10.*inch,4*inch) > > > > for some reason it can't find a file anywhere other than the base directory > > in zope. I cannot use this directory because it will serve as a collection > > of image files. > > > > Any ideas how to force it to look somewhere else for this file? > > > > Thanks again! > > > > -e- > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Daniel Rusch" <drusch(a)globalcrossing.com> > > > I have no idea if this will help you. We use PIL, reportlabs and zope to > > > create P.O.'s, to place a logo on the page we use the following line of > > > code: > > > > > > c.drawInlineImage("gclogo_color.gif", .5*inch, 10.*inch,4*inch) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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PHP/Zope Guru
by Vincent - D. Ertner 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Hi folks, first of all I'd like to apologize for crossposting this message. I'm well aware of the fact that this isn't they way it should be done, but I considered this the probably most promising alternative. Enough about this. I want to setup a major database project. It is supposed to cover the administration (entering, changing, deleting) of recordsets, as well als a search engine (resultspace narrowed by several different criteria chosen from a form) ending up in resultlists and detailed views of the recordsets. I started with PHP (LAMP) and then came across Zope. Zope impresses me and I like the simple concept of PHP. There I am now considering the pros and cons ... and then a thought stroke my mind: Why not ask the pros professionals? So I finally decided to create this awful crossposting ... so: Are there any pros who already dealt with a similar matter? Any detailed information on how and *why* one or the other solution rulez would be highly appreciated and helpful, as I have to argue the decision for one or the other system with the initiators of the project. Thanx for reading a lot, hope hearing from u pals soon ... Cheers, Vince ''' ô¿ô -

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Re: [Support] Problems using the Sybase da with zope
by Chris McDonough 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Did you compile the sy_occ module? Can you import that module and do things with it from Python as noted in the docs? (BTW, I moved this to the Zope mail list...) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans-Christian Prytz" <hans-christian(a)prytz.net> To: "DC Support List" <dc_support_list(a)digicool.com> Cc: <support(a)digicool.com> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:18 AM Subject: [Support] Problems using the Sybase da with zope > Hi, I'm trying to use the SybaseDA module for zope, but I'm having > some problems I cant seem to figure out from the documentation. > It compiles file, but I can't seem to get it to import into zop (or > python for that matter) The logs from zope only says: Zope[7257]: > Couldn't import Products.SybaseDAv2. > > Any suggestions? > > > -- > Hans-Christian Prytz > hans-christian(a)prytz.net > "Harmless is something/a little knowlege is not" > Rainmakers >

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ID = "somebody@someserver.com"... ?
by Thomas S�ndergaard 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

I am sorry about me being a newbie but can somebody help me with an Email@dress as an ID....? I Have tried all kinds of things but none of them worked. I know that I must use url_quote, but how do I do that...? This kind of explains it: ****** The add form looks like this ****** <dtml-var standard_html_header> <H2>Add Job Board Entry</H2> <FORM action="entry_addProcessor"> <TABLE border="0"> <TR><TH>FirstName(s)</TH> <TD><input type=text name=firstnam size="35"></TD> </TR> <TR><TH>SurName</TH> <TD><input type=text name=surnam size="35"></TD> </TR> <TR><TH>Email Adress</TH> <TD><input type=text name=eadr size="35"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD></TD> <TD> <input type=submit value=" Add Subscriber "> <input type=reset value=" Clear Form "></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </FORM> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> ****** And the Processor looks like this ****** <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('firstname', firstnam)"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('surname', surnam)"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('email', eadr)"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('title', firstnam+' '+surnam)"> <dtml-with "manage_addProduct['nl_3dcomm']"> <dtml-call "newsl_entry_add(_.None, _, NoRedir=1)"> </dtml-with> <CENTER> <H2>Thank you for your entry</H2> </CENTER> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> ****** You see, I need to make "somebody(a)somewhere.com" into "somebody_somewher.com" or somethiong like that.... But how.... Hope to get a quick answer.... Stoons = ) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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Job offering - England
by Erik Enge 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Zopistas, wanna get paid? :) Zope/Python programmer wanted to work with one of our clients in England. A team from Thingamy (<URL:http://www.thingamy.com>) have for some months now been developing a Zope application for a client in England. The client's main work is resourcing (ie. matching candidates and clients and typing up contracts). Our client has, of course, got access to the source code - and thus they want to continue developing the application after they recieve it from us. We need a person that can travel to their offices once a week, and spend approximately 2 days a week continuing development of the application (the amount of work depends highly on what our client wants done). The application is written in Python, the interface is in XHTML 1.0 STRICT. You should be an experienced Python programmer, and should have spent your time in the Zope source code :-). I will take you through the source code, and will also be your contact person when questions about the source code, class structure or anything of that sort arrises. It would be desirable if you could overlap with us (ie. start coding one month before we stop, so there would be some feeling of consitency - and it would also give you a great opporunity to ask (nearly) all questions). * Start date: within 2 months (room for discussion). * Salary: up for discussion. If this sounds interesting (or if you want to ask questions) please email me. (Please note that this is not a fulltime job, so it would be benefitial if you lived near their offices and had access to other work aswell. Their offices are 40 minutes by train from Waterloo station.) Thanks :)

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Uploading textfiles into Zope using LoadSite
by Jean Jordaan 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Hi Vimmers I'd like to do a show-and-tell about how I - uploaded a bunch of textfiles into Zope (by making use of 'load_site.py') - and turned them into ZClasses (using a DTML method). This is not a flashy "here's how to do it" piece -- it's really a request for advice on how to do things better, and a step-by-step from a relative beginner, for other relative beginners. OK, to business. I used 'loadsite-1.4.0-test.tgz'. From the README:: LoadSite version 1.3 Based on load_site.py from Digital Creations Modified by Oleg Broytmann <phd2(a)earthling.net> Modified by Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamars(a)ibm.net> wxLoadSite uses code written by Amos Latteier, and uses Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib. (Is there a newer version available?). I started from a flattext database, with a structure like: ID|penname|pensurname|notes|title|vol|nr|year|printed|text|name|surname|date |nick|email That is: 15 fields, pipe-delimited, containing different kinds of data (strings, multiline text, dates, email, ...). Here is a shortened sample record: 66|Zandra|Bezuidenhout||A room of my own||||Nee|A room of my own~nl~- garden view,~nl~computer -,|||1998/7/23|zandra|zbez(a)netactive.co.za I wanted to get the individual fields into Zope: for example, as properties of the DTML Documents that LoadSite creates. To do this, I had to hack on LoadSite slightly. I noticed that it found the body attributes and aggregated all of them into one property (in 'htmlutils.py'). I guessed that I could import these attributes as properties. To do so, I made the following changes to 'htmlutils.py'. Originally:: *** 95,98 **** if not self.seen_startbody: self.seen_startbody = 1 self.accumulator = "" self.bodyattribs = join_attrs(attrs) I changed this as follows:: --- 95,99 ---- if not self.seen_startbody: self.seen_startbody = 1 self.accumulator = "" # njj: self.bodyattribs = join_attrs(attrs) self.bodyattribs = attrs This way, bodyattribs is not changed into a string like 'name="value" [...]', but remains a dictionary { penname:Zandra, pensurname:Bezuidenhout }. Then I had to change how they were fed into Zope. To do this, I changed 'Uploader.py' from:: *** 113,115 **** if bodyattribs: self.call(object.manage_addProperty, id="loadsite_bodyattribs", type="string", value=bodyattribs) To:: --- 113,128 ---- if bodyattribs: # njj: start for attrname, attrvalue in bodyattribs: if attrname == 'text' or attrname == 'notes': self.call(object.manage_addProperty, id=attrname, type="text", value=attrvalue) elif attrname == 'date': self.call(object.manage_addProperty, id=attrname, type="date", value=attrvalue) else: self.call(object.manage_addProperty, id=attrname, type="string", value=attrvalue) # njj: end # njj: self.call(object.manage_addProperty, # njj: id="loadsite_bodyattribs", type="string", value=bodyattribs) This works :) Unfortunately, it's a hardcoded hack that will only work for this particular database. To be useful, you should be able to tell LoadSite to snarf the attributes of <meta> tags as properties, paying attention to the ':type' convention of indicating the format of data. But I don't understand sgmllib well enough to do that .. I ran the flattext database through a pre-processor ('http://www.htmlpp.org', for the curious) to get files (named '1.html' and so on) that look like this:: <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>A room of my own -- Zandra Bezuidenhout</TITLE> </HEAD> <body ID="66" penname="Zandra" pensurname="Bezuidenhout" notes="" titel="A room of my own" vol="" nr="" year="" printed="Nee" text="A room of my own - garden view, computer -," name="" surname="" date="1998/7/23" nick="zandra" email="zbez(a)netactive.co.za" > </BODY></HTML> When uploaded by LoadSite, this creates DTML Documents with 15 properties each. Now to get them into ZClasses. Here is the DTML Method that does this:: <dtml-with DTML_texts> <dtml-call "manage_addFolder('ZClass_texts')"> <dtml-in "objectItems(['DTML Document'])"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ID' , ID )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('penname' , penname )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('pensurname' , pensurname )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('notes' , notes )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('title' , title )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('vol' , vol )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('nr' , nr )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('year' , year )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('printed' , printed )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('text' , text )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('name' , name )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('surname' , surname )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('date' , date )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('nick' , nick )"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('email' , email )"> <dtml-let folder_str=nick> <dtml-var folder_str> <dtml-let id_str="_.string.split(_['sequence-key'], '.')[0]"> <dtml-var id_str> <dtml-with "_.getitem('ZClass_texts')"> <dtml-try> <dtml-call "_.getitem(folder_str)"> <dtml-except KeyError> <dtml-call "manage_addFolder(folder_str)"> </dtml-try> <dtml-with "_.getitem(folder_str)"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('id', id_str)"> <dtml-with "manage_addProduct['TextProduct']"> <dtml-call "Text_add(_.None, _, NoRedir=1)"> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> </dtml-let> </dtml-let> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> It iterates over all the DTML Documents in the 'DTML_texts' folder, and creates a 'ZClass_texts' folder inside it. If no folder 'nick' exists, it creates one; and inside the 'nick' folder, it creates 'Text' ZClasses named '1', '2' and so on (discarding the '.html' bit). In this way, each author's texts are collected in their own folder as ZClasses. Nice! The author folders will probably become ZClasses subclassing 'ZClasses: ObjectManager'. TODO: for each author, a user with default password should be created. An author should have permissions to administer their texts. I hope someone finds this interesting! Regards, Jean Jordaan

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Re: [Zope] RE: Wampum Generator
by Oliver Bleutgen 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

> It's a Winzip thing. I'll bet wampum generator is a .tar file, just rename > it to a .tgz file and it should open just fine. Just some thoughts/guesses: I'll bet Kathy uses Internet Explorer. Don't know about Netscape, but it becomes more and more difficult to get IE _not_ to try to be "smart" about any file you download. In this case I think there's some kind of transparent mechanism which kicks in and tries to transparently decompress files of type application/x-tar. Guess it's a helper for compressed vrml .wrl.gz (or similar) files. In this case renaming to .tgz works, but I think I saw the same mess the other way around when IE didn't remove the .gz suffix but nonetheless transparently decompressed the file. These things are extremely annoying when dealing with relativly unexperienced clients who, say, just want to _download_ an .avi file with a left-klick. MS has implemented a lot of magic there, AFAIK IE even tries to guess the filetype by its content in some cases and then ignores each and every http-header which might suggest otherwise. Adding "Content-Disposition: attachment" as a http-header seems to help (for the .avi case). cheers, oliver

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