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Re: [Zope] banner ad system, was how much resource?
by - 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Bill Anderson wrote: > > Methinks thou art confused, but only slightly. me sorry, me look carefully next time. > Understand completely. > > I literally just came back from the couch (no, not _that_ one!, my > programming couch ;) where I was working on the next version .. so lets > see what we already agree on :) > > > what phpads offers:(from the readme) > > Summary: > > phpAds is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP3. > > Currently it can > > - manage multiple banners (any size) per client > > Yup. Main part here is just the dtml/html for it. Well, that and choice > of storage. > phpAds stores all in an SQL database, right? yes, and are you going to use sql in the future? or just stay with zodb? i would think going with sql is better in the sense that most of us have that 2G fs limit, and putting data in sql would help separate data from zodb. > > - send statistics to clients via email > > On what kind of schedule? By request, or by cron-job type setup? it's actually done by cron, and i would think you can do that easily. > > > - show random, pre-defined or HTML/image banners > > Little more specific, if possible? well, i guess you have it now, where you can weight the banner. > > So far, I believe the following are set for the next version (by > mid-March if all goes well): > > o Click tracking > o Stats (Views, Clicks, Click-through ratio, views/clicks left) > o Keywords > o Ways to avoid ZODB growth for each view/click. > i'll be waiting for this eagerly. BTW, i'd be glad to help in any ways i can. a little warning tho, i'm not an accomplished programmer, i wish i were, and know only so much sql. and i don't think i got good english! thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kedai.com.my/kk Am I Evil?

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Javascript for Zope project
by Sin Hang Kin 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

Is this possible? On zope site we could collect links to opensource / free javascript. On later stage, we could examine them and make them adapt them to zope. Any one interested?

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Assorted Zope problems
by Ed Thomson 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

Hello- I've been trying to get our existing Zope server (previously with ZServer handling http) under Apache. Here are some problems I ran into: 1. My biggest problem was that Zope uses the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable to construct it's notion of the base URI. Unfortunately, SCRIPT_NAME gives the actual script name, not the URI. So if you do a ScriptAlias, or any rewriting inside Apache, this isn't necessarily valid. An adequate solution seems to be to change PYTHONHOME/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPRequest.py line 211, to use DOCUMENT_URI instead of SCRIPT_NAME. 2. I couldn't get Apache with FastCGI and Zope working reliably. On about 1% of requests, garbage would be returned, resulting in random broken images or pages full of gibberish. This is with the Oct 06 snapshot of FastCGI, compiled into Apache-1.3.12. Anyone else seen anything like this? Ed

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Zope DHTML and XHTML : Moving things to the Client-side
by Sin Hang Kin 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

I think it worth to encourage zopelist to move more things to the client-side by modify a Zope fresh installation. I found out there are many things hard-coded in python or dtml in zope's source. There are some things which can be do better in the client side. For example, there were many dynamic folder tree writen in javascript which can be more responsible than the zope tree tag (which the change of the tree state require the help from server). I would like to urge zopelists to explorer the client side authoring which could actually give zope a dramatically change. 1. Remove those hard-coded parameters from the source and placed them in the folder tree as attributes which can be modified or overwrited by manage interface and acquisition. 2. Define the basic css (which zope.org have one) as default elements with the fress zope install. 3. Make the current Zope tag comply with xml standards : they should end with /> or accept an end tag. 4. Collect open-source javascript codes and convert them into zope products (like tree).

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PostgreSQL money weird problem
by Cesar A. K. Grossmann 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

Hi, I'm with a weird problem with a report from a SQL database. I have a field of type 'money', and every time I use it in a SELECT query, it returns 0.00, doesn't matter the actual value of the field (in the example bellow - the 'test' of the query -, the field Valor is of type 'money'): Id | Idcliente | Data | Valor 1 | 11 | 03-03-2000 | 0.0 2 | 11 | 03-03-2000 | 0.0 3 | 11 | 03-03-2000 | 0.0 SQL used: select * from compras where idcliente=11 Running the same query on the interactive client, gives the value of money: credito=> select * from compras where idcliente=11; id|idcliente| data|valor --+---------+----------+-------- 1| 11|03-03-2000|R$50,00 2| 11|03-03-2000|R$150,00 3| 11|03-03-2000|R$15,00 (3 rows) I'm using Zope 2.1.2, ZPyGreSQLDA, and PostgreSQL 6.4.2, running in a Conectiva Linux 4.0 (kernel version is 2.2.5). The definition of the class compras is: Table = compras +--------------+----------------------------------+-------+ | Field | Type | Length| +--------------+----------------------------------+-------+ | id | int4 not null default nextval('c | 4 | | idcliente | int4 | 4 | | data | date | 4 | | valor | money | 4 | +--------------+----------------------------------+-------+ Indices: compras_id_key compras_pkey TIA -- Cesar A. K. Grossmann - AOLIM CesarAKG - ICQ# 53373705 http://members.xoom.com/ckant/ ...when you are obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.

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Logging users in Zope 2.x (second try)
by Hannu Krosing 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

How should I configure logging to get usernames into Z2.log I first hoped to get it from Apache's access_log, but it saves username only when doing user authentication itself. Then I thought that Zope at least would log it and migrated the site to Zope 2.1.3 to get logging support. Unfortunately it does still not log usernames and I have not found the place where I could turn it on. Also the format is buggy: Apache access_log: 193.40.215.135 - - [11/Feb/2000:08:29:55 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2673 Zope Z2.log 127.0.0.1- - [11/Feb/2000:19:04:46 +0300] "GET /misc_/OFSP/dtmlmethod.gif" 200 1000 the bug being the missing space after the IP address. what I was hoping for would have looked like: 127.0.0.1 - superuser [11/Feb/2000:19:04:46 +0300] "GET /manage" 200 1000 ------- Hannu

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Hooking into traversal
by Andrew M. Kuchling 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

I want to write an object that can be traversed by ZPublisher. The goal is so I can write URLs like thingyForwarder/45/display, to get an object corresponding to thingy #45, and call its display() method. What's the Zope Zen way of doing this? Implement an __of__ method for acquisition? Implement a __bobo_traverse__ method? Make thingyForwarder a Folderish object and implement all the folder methods? -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ "Wet", said he. Classics was his subject, and he sometimes affected a classical simplicity in social conversation. -- Robertson Davies, _Tempest-Tost_

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"creating XML Applications With Zope"
by dillera＠isc.upenn.edu 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

In Amos Latteier's "creating XML Applications With Zope" at http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/12/zope/index.html There is an example that uses a Zcatalog. He says to enter this into the expr field of the "Find Items to Zcatalog": getNodeName()=='entry' and click find. When I do this with my own version, or even his version Zope gets this error: Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: NameError Error Value: Eval it has to do with that entry in expr. Is that a typo?

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Client-side Zope
by Sin Hang Kin 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

Continue to moving more job to the client, There will be more for Zope to perform: 1. There will be necessary to generate various section-specific temporary objects for CSS, DTD and Scripting files, framed or embeded html. 2. There will be necessary to support java or javascript access of zope in the client. In the first requirement, I would like to suggest an machenism to create an section specific temporary object (which zope create the unique name and substitute it) which dtml is able to write to it. The new object can be just a new dtml-document. As in the following <dtml-object dtdobject> <dtml-object scriptobject> <dtml-object cssobject> <script lang="javascript" src="<dtml-var scriptobject>"> .... <dtml-write target=scriptobject> function <dtml-var uniquevalidfunctionname>(){ .... } </dtml-write> I don't known about the solution of the second request. In the long run, zope might encourage separate of control and data. The current opening all tags in one dtml-method and closing them in another is very dangerous if the control get complicated. I would like to suggest DC consider a xslt like syntax which can also be used in server side xml to html conversion if the client do not support it. If zope is going seriously to the international market and xml, then unicode is important in the core level.

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Re: [Zope] Perchance a dtml major mode for XEmacs?
by Alastair Burt 03 Mar '00

03 Mar '00

The link below explains how I managed to create such a beast: http://www.zope.org/Members/alburt/dtml_mode It relies on a DTD file to define the format of DTML code and then letting PSGML, a package for editing SGML/XML code, do all the work. --- Alastair Burt

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