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Re: [Zope-PTK] Andover.net roles out "Shlashcode" Portal
by J C Lawrence 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:20:01 +0100 Jochen Haeberle <listen(a)MIDRAS.de> wrote: > Hi, I thought some of you might be interested that Andover.net is > going to release Slahscode, the tool that runs Slashdot.org. Its already done, and is under the GPL. Further, there is a rumour (ie I haven't been able to verify it), that Hemos has stated that the current codebase is being abandoned and replaced with something written in Python which will NOT be OpenSource. -- 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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rewrite how to create a configuration interface?
by Scott Gruber 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

hi, i would like to help improve the documentation for the tutorial described on this webpage. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZCMG-HTML/ZCMG.6.2.html i am going through the steps right now, but can't seem to make it work. i want to offer to help rewrite the tutorial if someone will offer to help me to learn how make the goal of that tutorial work. my goal is to allow people the ability to add new content through a web based form. i think it will help zope grow if we can explain how to accomplish this task more easily. thanks, scott gruber ............................................................. ucla center for digital arts 310.825.3561 | sgruber(a)arts.ucla.edu http://www.cda.ucla.edu/staff/scott

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Re: [Zope] where's the Distribution tab ?
by Andrew Lahser 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

Jerome ALET <alet(a)unice.fr> said: > Hi, > > At work I'm designing a Zclass which subclasses ObjectManager and which > have some subclasses. > ...snip... > I've tried to access directly to the manage_distributionView method for my > product and it said to me: "this product is not redistributable" > > where does the problem come from ? > > Does Zope refuse to "redistribute" something which was written on another > Zope server ? I hope (read: I'm sure) it's not the case. > I you want to continue working from home, you should _Export_ your Zclass based product from your office, and then _Import_ it at home. Distribution allows you to specify what items can be customized by the end-user content manager. I don't think (read: believe) further distributions are possible. Drew

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Zope & Mandrake
by Tom Deprez 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

Hi all, Just want to say that Zope installing on Mandrake 7.0 is no problem at all. Everything works like it should. Even with the how-to of Miklos Nemeth it's like a charm to install it with Apache. Regards, Tom.

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ZSQL testing for empty return from select
by David Salgado 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

Hi all I've got a problem with a ZSQL method which looks like; select max(<dtml-var key_field>) as keyval from <dtml-var table_name> This works perfectly as long as there is at least one record in the table, but seems to just hang if the table is empty. I'm trying to use this method from an external method as follows; res = self.qryMaxKey(table_name='events', key_field='eventid') # Test for empty return here return res[0][0] so I've tried tests like; if not res: return 0 if res == []: return 0 if res == None: return 0 but none of these seem to work. All ideas gratefully receved! TIA David

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RE: [Zope] cookie problem
by Hung Jung Lu 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

>From: Martijn Pieters <mj(a)digicool.com> >Erm.. .you guys realizing that you are opening a gaping security hole >here? You are right. An astronomical worm-hole. :) Personally, I do the following things: (1) I only use cookies that are encrypted. (2) I avoid using serialization (pickle). On point (1): why would anyone want to expose the recipe of their cookies? If you don't do that with real cookies, why would you do it with internet cookies? :) On point (2): If it is pure data, don't pickle it. Don't be lazy. Write a output format for it. You'll be glad, because you will be able to handle the data from something else than Python. If it is really necessary to keep track of large objects, it's better to store and retrieve them on the server side. I remember someone wrote a How-to on this: http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/localcookies Hung Jung ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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RE: [Zope] Re: Zope Sites and Info Needed to Convince Boss
by Chris McDonough 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

We are keeping stats and we do have reports... I dunno about making them open to the public right now, but maybe... Note also that to be honest and as I'm thinking about it this isn't quite a fair test for Zope either. DC has 20 people who know Zope inside and out because they wrote it. The zope.org story is probably not indicative of a normal situation and probably wouldn't hold much weight with a potential evaluator. Chris McDonough mailto:chrism@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com Publishers of Zope http://www.zope.org > -----Original Message----- > From: LEE, Kwan Soo [mailto:kslee@plaza1.snu.ac.kr] > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:03 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Re: Zope Sites and Info Needed to Convince Boss > > > > on #2. This is a strawman argument. How many hits does > your site get > > in a peak hour? If it's fewer than 13000, and your site is about as > > dynamic as zope.org you can run it on a sub-$1200 P450. we > are serving > > about 2 million hits a month on that box and gaining. > > This will be handy info to persuade others to convert to ZOPE. > How about put some more info about www.zope.org box configuration and > statistics? > Yes, I know, some are at http://www.zope.org/AboutZopeOrg. > But more info of ZOPE setup of www.zope.org and statistics > will sure help. > By statistics, I mean something like provided by > webalizer(www.webalizer.org). > > Forgive me, if I missed what already there. > > LEE, Kwan Soo. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Python & Zope? Gurus
by Tom Deprez 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

Hi, Instead of giving a fixed list of news, like you can with dtml, I would like to let the news scroll vertical in a frame/applet. ie. The first news classes are shown. Then the scrolling stops for a certain time. After that time, the next 5 news classes are shown, etc... Later on if possible, mouse-interaction (a user can click on the frame/applet and then move the mouse up/down to move the news classes. I know this can be done with Java applets, but can this also be done through Python? So that it can be loaded into Zope as a project? Is there someone who knows if this is possible? And can give me somewhere a link from where I can start creating it? Thanks in advance. Tom.

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Advice needed: converting a PHP3 project to Zope.
by Tony McDonald 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

Hi all, (this is longish, so feel free to 'd') I need the lists' wisdom here. I'm considering changing a PHP3 based multiple choice question (MCQ) engine to be zope based. At the moment, I have urls to the PHP server within my Zope system that load the MCQs into a separate frame for display, but would really like the MCQs to be 'inline' along with all my other Zopish content. My MCQs are read from MySQL and displayed on the page, and this means that there may be more than one on a page. I also have up to five responses (stems) where the student can answer true/false/don't know. This means that there are fifteen radio buttons for each MCQ question. Currently, to identify each group of radio buttons uniquely I do this; I name each radio button with a name of the form 'q_n_stem_m', where; n = number of the MCQ on the page (starting from zero, so if there's 10 questions on a page, the last variable will be q_9_stem_m). m = the stem counter, again based from 0, so that if there are 5 stems to a question, the counter goes from 0..4. All the radio buttons for a group need to be named the same so that the browser can automatically turn them on and off. eg...for one MCQ. <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_0 VALUE="1"> == True selection <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_0 VALUE="0"> == False selection <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_0 VALUE="DK"> == Don't Know selection <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_1 VALUE="1"> <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_1 VALUE="0"> <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_1 VALUE="DK"> <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_2 VALUE="1"> <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_2 VALUE="0"> <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=q_0_stem_2 VALUE="DK"> (repeated for q_0_stem_3 and q_0_stem_4). Essentially a radio button group has to be uniquely named on the page, and as we allow students to see the full 142 MCQs at once, that means 710 unique variable names... (ie q_0_stem_0 ... q_141_stem_4). When it comes to marking the questions, I create a variable name in PHP through concatenation and use that as a lookup to get the value of the stem as entered by the student. It's then a relatively simple matter to check whether the student has a stem correct and then add the attempt to a database table. So, having described the problem, what do people think? Is my method of naming stems too complex and unwieldy? Should I stick with PHP (for the time being...) Storing the MCQs in the ZODB isn't really on, as the SQL method has proved very useful and is very heavily used. I can see that I'm in for a forest of DTML here (I've already tried a demo, but doing the 'concatenated' lookup got too complex!), a Python External method looks best (a PythonMethod looks better but I'm not up to speed on that yet!) Any thoughts would be appreciated. Tone. ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2

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Re: Zope Sites and Info Needed to Convince Boss
by LEE, Kwan Soo 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

> on #2. This is a strawman argument. How many hits does your site get > in a peak hour? If it's fewer than 13000, and your site is about as > dynamic as zope.org you can run it on a sub-$1200 P450. we are serving > about 2 million hits a month on that box and gaining. This will be handy info to persuade others to convert to ZOPE. How about put some more info about www.zope.org box configuration and statistics? Yes, I know, some are at http://www.zope.org/AboutZopeOrg. But more info of ZOPE setup of www.zope.org and statistics will sure help. By statistics, I mean something like provided by webalizer(www.webalizer.org). Forgive me, if I missed what already there. LEE, Kwan Soo.

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