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Re: [Zope] Giving up in frustration
by Andrew M. Kuchling 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Martijn Faassen writes: >Just organize the documentation effort better. Our biggest need, I think, is >an organization of the documentation infrastructure. Someone needs to be get >pretty radical there -- ripping apart everything and putting it all together >again in a better way. I'll definitely be around to give my help. Part of the problem is that Zope has been a fast-moving target in the last few months. I would hope that things will settle down a bit when Zope 2 is finalized, so we can write a bunch of interesting add-on Products, implement some attention-getting Zope sites, and write FAQs and tutorial docs. (This recent kerfuffle also made me start writing a chapter on Zope for the Grimoire last night.) And I quite agree with Bradford Hull that the Zope learning curve is steep. There are a lot of components in Zope, and how to mentally fit them all together isn't obvious. It's worth noting the frequent use of the phrase "Zope Zen", implying that knowledge is suddenly gained in unpredictable flashes of insight. (For example, I had tremendous difficulty with calling other objects from DTML, until I suddenly realized how the namespace stack behaves.) Reading the source code may not always help; some portions of it are filled with impressively cutting-edge Python technique; even Guido would have to go slowly. -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ Think until it hurts. -- Roy Thomson

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Re: [Zope] INSERT/UPDATE in SQL methods
by Joachim Schmitz 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

thanks, that was the tip I'm missing, after some other changes my universal ZSQL-method looks like this:  ,  ) values (  ,          ) with "table" and "REQUEST" in the argument list, and the TinyTable EinAusgabe like this Columns: name label ftype length:int default auto Data: "event_id", "Event-Nr", "int", 10, "", "max" "art", "Event-Art", "string", 20, "kino", NULL "veran_id", "Veranstalter-ID", "string", 8, NULL, NULL "veran_ort", "Ort", "string", 40, NULL, NULL "veran_title", "Titel", "string", 80, NULL, NULL "veran_link", "Link", "string", 40, "http://", NULL "datum_von", "von", "date", 10, NULL, NULL "datum_bis", "bis", "date", 10, NULL, NULL "zeiten", "Zeiten", "string", 60, NULL, NULL Gruß Joachim Schmitz WWW-Consultant email: js(a)ac-copy.net tel: +49-241-89491-0 fax: +49-241-89491-29

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INFORMATION
by Tom Deprez 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hi all, I know most people on the list already know these links, but I often see people asking questions about some simple things. When I had to convince our people at the hospital that Zope was it, I created some small demo's, with the great help of people on this list. Very small! Although they're created for Zope 1.0.x, I think they can be used for Zope 2.0 too. So every newbie, have a look at http://www.master.cit.be/c8/default.html and go to the tutorials section (if you are only interested in small examples). Also have a look at http://zdp.zope.org/guide/ZBook, especially at the tutorial. Regards, Tom. ps. By the way, you can also find these links and only these links :-) in my account (ZifNab) at the new beta zope.org

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multihosting / virtual hosting
by Jens Vagelpohl 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

hi zopistas, the zope-based school project i finished a few weeks ago is bearing all kinds of fruit. after seeing it a local software company in ann arbor now has one employee (a good friend of mine who told them about my project) write a white paper on zope and see how they can use it for their benefit. another friend wants to use zope to provide personalized homepages, but he is running against one drawback: missing support in ZServer for multiple domains. here's my question: is multi-domain support for ZServer planned or maybe even worked on right now? is it hard to implement it using apache and rewrite rules? (something i'd rather not attempt because i haven't done the marriage of apache and zope yet). any input would be greatly appreciated :) jens -- Jens Vagelpohl **Better living through electronics** tommymi(a)concentric.net

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Looping in DTML
by craigv＠jps.net 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Is there any way to do looping from within DTML? For example, I'd like to execute a method a certain number of times using a counter. Here's some pseudo-code to demonstrate:     If I can do looping, is there a way to break out of a loop? Thanks in advance.

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Reminder: Berlin Zope Barbecue this friday
by Mark Pratt 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

hello all, this week beehive will host the 4th berlin zope barbecue. time, place and directions are availible here: http://www.zope.de/forum/bzb/ it looks like a lot of people are going to show up so if your thinking about attending please let us know ASAP. regards, mark -------------------------------------------------------------- mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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Sidebar menus
by Arnaud Lecat 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hi I'm trying to make a simple and fast sidebar menu. For this I've created a DTML method at the top with this code      <strong></strong> <!#else--> <A HREF="</A><BR>     Then I create a property for each folder (?) with this code. The property contains a list of string which contains the subdirectory Services|/services Infos|/infos Have I made a mistake coz' it doesn't work :( Perhaps there's allready a system that exists in Zope for doing this and I don't know it... Heeeelp Thanks -- >> WinErr: 080 Clavier introuvable - Veuillez appuyer sur n'importe quelle touche pour continuer. << Arnaud LECAT >> Email: lecat(a)hexanet.fr >> WWW page:www.hexanet.fr/~lecat HEXANET >> http://www.hexanet.fr Z.A. Farman sud - 9 rue Roland Coffignot BP 415 - 51689 Reims Cedex 2 - France phone: (33) 03 26 79 30 05 Fax: (33) 03 26 79 30 06

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Second dippy question of the day
by Scott Michel 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

I have a perfectly working query for MySQL: select nouns.noun, hull_class.ull_class, count(hull_class.hull_class) AS prob_count from problems, nouns, hull_class where problems.noun_rel = nouns.noun_id and problems.hullc_rel = hull_class.hullc_id group by nouns.noun, hull_class.hull_class Unfortunately, this raises a KeyError exception, and there's little or no extra info to debug this statement. If I take out the "count(..." part of the query, Zope is happy. Where am I acquiring negative cluon flux density here? -scooter -- Scott Michel |"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to | hate. Hate leads to using Windows NT UCLA Computer Science | for mission-critical applications." PhD Graduate Student | -- What Yoda *meant* to say

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How to install Zope on SuSE 6.1
by Eric, Stacey and Lydia Miller 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hi. It's the WNT-developer-to-Linux-wana-be again. I gave up on my CheapBytes edition on RH 6.0 and purchased SuSE 6.1 for various reasons. I tried to install Zope 2.0.0b4 after recompiling the 1.5.2 version of Python (with threads). No dice. I can't get it to work. I tried to run ZServer and get the following: -------- 1999-08-18T01:53:31 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname -------- 1999-08-18T01:53:31 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.10) started at Tue Aug 17 20:53:01 1999 Hostname: ERIC.ALPHAQUADRANT.ORG Port:8080 -------- 1999-08-18T01:53:31 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Tue Aug 17 20:53:01 1999 Authorizer:None Hostname: ERIC Port:8021 -------- 1999-08-18T01:53:31 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port 8099 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/Zope/Zope-2.0.0b4-linux2-x86/z2.py", line 494, in ? IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/Zope/Zope-2.0.0b4-linux2-x86/Z2.pid' Now, if I understand this correctly: A. ZServer doesn't like to compute the default hostname or can't. B. ZServer Monitor Server does not have permission to create and or update the file Z2.pid. I tried giving full rights to the subdirectory (777), etc. but this does not make a difference. If I try instead to use the version of Apache that SuSE installs I can run the test-cgi script just fine but can not run Zope.cgi. Under RH 6.0 I could at least get Zope.cgi to run (of course I could never get the auth rewrite rule to work.) I've searched the list email for help and found that someone else has the same message when they start up ZServer. I checked with him and he can't get it to work either. So, either he isn't begging enough or nobody knows how to get this to work. If someone would take pity a poor Win developer trying to migrate to Linux and Zope at the same time and help me install this thing so that I don't have to learn Java and Enhydra... ;^) Eric Miller phoenix(a)cac.net ejmiller(a)sweetsystems.com

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Getting some documentation started....
by Lindon Parker 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Bradford wrote: >If you'll tell me how to hook a ZSQL method for insert/update to dtml, I'll >jump back on now and start that chapter. I'm not busy tonight... So you guys at Digi did this right, and we'll be seeing Bradfords draft documentation here for review soon(ish) right? And whilst we're here if you'll tell me how to search through all the Zope objects in my site by some attribute and then display some (other) attributes, basically like a SELECT statement but not on a database instead on Zope itself(see I'm really new) I'll write that FAQ/chapter too... Lindon Parker TwoMoon Media ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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