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RE: [Zope] Using Links within Zope
by Marcus Collins 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Hi, Eron Take a look at http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Breadcrumbs It demonstrates two methods for implementing the navigation hierarchy trail you're after. HTH, -- Marcus > -----Original Message----- > From: Eron Lloyd [mailto:woodsage@op.net] > Sent: 09 February 2000 06:08 > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Using Links within Zope > > > Thanks for the help with images. I've just completed a 6 pg. how-to on > it, which will be up for public consumption as soon as I get approval > from ZDP. > > My next question is: Linking in Zope - is there anything special (yet > basic enough) that can be done besides a "<a href="some.object">click > here</a>" type of link? Any DTML-special stuff? Especially > useful would > be implementing a navigation bar that trails behind each > level deep into > the heirarchy you go. How to generate the links, etc. and what DTML > would need to be used. > > Ideas? Pour 'em out, I'm willing to write as much as I learn. > > Thanks in advance, > > Eron > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Zope] Parents solution
by J C Lawrence 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 13:03:18 -0500 Chris McDonough <chrism(a)digicool.com> wrote: > I try to keep a local copy of all the mailing list posts on my > hard disk. When I have a problem with syntax, generally, I just > grep the local copy for what I'm looking for. If there is interest I'm willing to set up an indexed and searchable (UdmSearch) archive of the list (and/or other Zope lists) here at Kanga.Nu. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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How do YOU enter content?
by danny shevitz 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

I would like to get some opinions on the best way to design a web site using Zope. I don't mean the part about factoring content and general design principles. What I'd like is how people sit down and do it. Do you type DTML? Do you work in a webpage designing suite then write out the HTML and switch the relevant stuff to DTML? If so, which suite do you use? Do you have any other pearls of wisdom which took a long time to discover but you can't seem to live without now? I'm about to design my first major website from scratch and would like to know. A little advice up front can save me a lot of trial and error down the road. I realize this is a little nebulous, but any advice would be appreciated thanks, Danny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

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problem with MailHost
by danny shevitz 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

I'm trying to get the How-To: How to create a mail form working. I can't seem to get the MailHost set up. I'm on NT and trying to get this to work over a dialup account. My Zope installation is on my local machine and is not accessible via the web, I don't have a domain or anything. However I am connect to my ISP. I have tried for the name of the SMTP Host: pop.albq.uswest.net and for the local host: MOGUL (and I also tried blank) Neither actually sent the email successfully. The blank version didn't send, but did at least return a message saying it had been sent. The MOGUL version returned Error Type: SMTP Error Error Value: Recieved error code 503 from SMTP: 503 RCPT first (#5.5.1) Does anyone have any ideas? Should I not be using the POP server? thanks, Danny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

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removing objects from database
by Terry Kerr 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Hi, Is there any way that objects can be removed in such a way from the ZOPDB that the removal can never be 'undone'. Ie, packing the DB after the removal would give this effect, except that I don't want to have to pack every time I remove an object, and I only want to stop retieval of certain objects that are deleted. Any suggestions appreciated terry -- Terry Kerr (terry(a)adroitnet.com.au) Adroit Internet Solutions Pty Ltd (www.adroitnet.com.au) (03) 9888 8522 0414 938 124

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exporting properties only from the ZODB root folder?
by Darran Edmundson 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

My ZODB root folder contains a number of properties neccessary for products tha I have created to work correctly. Is it possible to export and import these properties to another ZODB without copying all objects in the root and the rest of the hierarchy? Cheers, Darran.

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Textareas and SQL (Gadfly)
by Evan Gibson 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

I've been hitting my head on the wall for hours over this... I've got a large collection of forms feeding into a gadfly database without a problem, and then a few that don't work at all. The only difference I can see is that the ones that fail have <textarea> data and the ones that work don't. I'm getting a: Error Type: LexTokenError Error Value: Lexical token not found near :: "s of Bloodax',\012"*"'A determined c" What I _think_ is happening is that gadfly can't handle carriage returns and line feeds in the string input. (Which is why I was trying things like "virtual" to perhaps get rid of them.) Hmmm... Actually, just tried something else, the below versions actually work, but _only_ if you delete all linefeeds from the textarea and let it wrap all by it's lonesome... Something I can't guarantee my users will do. Is there a way I can remove the carriage returns prior to hitting the sql? I was hoping to use some kind of formatting command rather than trying some weird kind of _.string.sub call. Thanks. Evan Gibson (below is the demo info) The form has fields: Name: <input type="text" name="name:string" size="40" value=""><br> Description: <textarea name="description:text" wrap="virtual" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea><br> (I've tried description with wrap=On/Off/Virtual and with and without the :text typecasting.) Sql is called by: <dtml-call "item_create(item_name=name,description=description)"> Sql query has: Arguments- description:string name:string insert into item_table (name, description) values (<dtml-sqlvar item_name type=string>, <dtml-sqlvar description type=string optional>) -- Evan ~ThunderFoot~ Gibson ~ nihil mutatem, omni deletum ~ May the machines watch over you with loving grace.

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ZCommerce solution available soon
by Dyon Balding 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

I am working for a small company developing a general ECommerce solution in Zope at the moment. We have two full time programmers working on it currently, and a graphic designer for the later stages. We are developing the Catalogue/Cart system as an open source front end for a complete realtime on-line purchasing system specifically designed for Australian businesses. In terms of implementation, we are developing it completely as a Zope Python Product. All purchaseable products are stored in the ZODB, as a hierachy of Products (the items) in Categories (folders). Of course you can have Categories within Categories. Each Category defines what attributes it's Products can have, in a method similar to the property sheets of ZClasses. It also allows for templates for the different views. I won't go into too much detail of the code, as we are intending to release it towards the end of the week. We are endeavouring to make the system completely within Zope, with no external SQL database. This makes it much easier to install the system regardless of platform, and without needing any extra skills. Our company also provides Zope hosting, but we want to make our product useable enough that anyone can install it. To implement a 'shopping cart' system, our cookies currently contain the product IDs, with no session information stored in our database. Our system will be able to be set up in a stand-alone mode in which case it will forward the orders to the merchant, or at a later stage in a realtime mode. In this latter case, it will be connected through our proprietry realtime on-line purchasing system. We were intending to keep the system under wraps until we had a first version to release, but with the increased interest in ZCommerce applications recently we thought we should jump on the bandwagon and tell everyone what we're up to. Look for a release by the end of the week, and hopefully this will inspire some more ZCommerce related discussion. -d -- Dyon Balding, email: dyon(a)adroitnet.com.au work: +613 98888522, mobile: +61 0414992604 Adroit Internet Solutions

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Re: [Zope] Is e-commerce feasible with Zope?
by J C Lawrence 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:02:26 -0500 Kevin Dangoor <kid(a)kendermedia.com> wrote: > Also, DC plans to make it possible to use multiple storages for > one logical object database. This will make a whole lot of sites, especially ISP's a lot more happy. Sit each virtual domain and user's DB in their home directory, makes for easy backup policies, simple resource and account tracking, etc. Very nice. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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news interface for zope list (was RE: [Zope] Parents solution)
by Jay, Dylan 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@digicool.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:03 AM > To: Ragnar Beer > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Parents solution > > > > Just as I thought: it was a retrieval problem. I wish I > could get all > > the List archives (with threads) into one file, too. There's such a > > lot of Information out there... > > > You can. Download all the [Archives] from > http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists > > I try to keep a local copy of all the mailing list posts on my hard > disk. When I have a problem with syntax, generally, I just grep the > local copy for what I'm looking for. Can we have a news interface to the zope lists? I have several mailman lists as part of my site. I gateway them quite successfully using mailman to an exchange public folder which is acting as a nntp news group. Then I have the entire list available as a news group. People don't even need to be subscribed to the mailing list. I imagine setting up a nntp server at zope.org or somewhere else would not be too hard and it would provide a much more manageable interface to the list than digests or individual mails. I'd much prefer a proper threading mailreader to digests anyday!!! The only problem would be putting the previous year or two's mail into the mailing list. I'm sure some python hacker can work that out without too much difficulty. My next step with my lists is to provide a web interface to my outlook public folder. I'm going to do this by hacking worldpilot or notmail and access the list via imap. Has anyone already done this or even a web interface to nntp?

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