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Deleting an User through a link
by Alexander Schad 21 May '99

21 May '99

Hi! I want to provide a link in a html-page that deletes a certain out of the acl_users Folder. My idea was something like: <a href="acl_users/manage_delUser([])">delete User</a> but the syntax doesn´t seem to be correct. Any ideas? Bye Alex

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RE: [Zope] Adding User Roles through Products
by Rob Page 21 May '99

21 May '99

> I am developing a product that uses roles to show certain content to > different people. > I am looking for a way to automatically add new user roles to my > products folder in zope when creating a new instance of that product. > Is there a way to do that and when how? <$0.02> Try calling manage_defined_roles from within the DTML. Of course, the calling doc will need a manage proxy role or permissions will break. I just checked the online help and manage_defined_roles didn't have great documentation so you might have to check the docs for necessary parameters or brute force it by sending a REQUEST. </$0.02> ** In general, a good way to research these questions is to look in Zope for what you want to do. In this case I looked at the Security tab of a Zope folder, Viewed Source and checked out just what happens when you add a role. In this case there is a FORM at the bottom of the Security screen whose ACTION is manage_defined_roles. I then took a look at the online help under Folder and looked for the method manage_defined_roles. Often there will be good documentation in the online object reference. When there isn't I can grep for manage_defined_roles in the sources to find out where and how the method is defined... In this case it turned up (among other things): o access.dtml - controls the look-and-feel of a folder's security tab o role.py which contains: def manage_defined_roles(self,submit=None,REQUEST=None): You can, with relatively little pain, read the source there and figure out what parameters it wants to do what you're after! The bit of "insider knowledge" that I added was that in order to call/use a manage* method you need the Manager role. Hope this helps... --Rob

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Adding User Roles through Products
by Alexander Schad 21 May '99

21 May '99

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:41:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Schad <ags(a)beehive.de> To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Adding User Roles through Products Hi! I am developing a product that uses roles to show certain content to different people. I am looking for a way to automatically add new user roles to my products folder in zope when creating a new instance of that product. Is there a way to do that and when how? Bye Alex

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Please help, 3rd post with no luck.
by Chad M. Townsend 21 May '99

21 May '99

http://www.domain.com/us/states/fl/cities/miami/weaher.html us = folder states = Z SQL Method fl = arg to states cities = Z SQL Method miami = arg to cities weather = DTML Document I am trying to access what state and city where chosen in the weather document. Is there another way to do this? I'm trying to avoid making 53,000 folders. Someone please point me in the right direction. Thanks, -chad

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'including' output from external files in a DTML doc?
by Tony McDonald 21 May '99

21 May '99

Hi all, I thought that the simple blah  where quote is a DTML method called  might include the output from quote.pl at the point where  appears. It doesn't. The redirect loads up quote.pl (which it was always going to do of course....) Anyone got any ideas on how to include output from external programs (in my case it will be Perl and PHP3) in a Zope document? tone ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project 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] 'including' output from external files in a DTML doc?
by Rob Page 21 May '99

21 May '99

> Anyone got any ideas on how to include output from external programs > (in my case it will be Perl and PHP3) in a Zope document? If I understand correctly you want to use http as a sorta-kinda RPC and insert the results in your document. Python's httplib gives you an http client. Try an external method something like this: <blatantly stolen from the Python library reference> >>> import httplib >>> h = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl') >>> h.putrequest('GET', '/index.html') >>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/html') >>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain') >>> h.endheaders() >>> errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply() >>> print errcode # Should be 200 >>> f = h.getfile() >>> data = f.read() # Get the raw HTML >>> f.close() </blatantly stolen from the Python library reference> Of course, you'll get all the http headers as well so you'll probably have to parse those out. --Rob

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Re: BeeHive / dynamic gif generator
by Mark Pratt 21 May '99

21 May '99

hello robert, > > ...you'll find the first series of > > screenshots in the step-by-step guide. > at: http://www.beehive.de/Multimedia/index.htm > It looks good. I can think of a few applications > for this dynamic gif generator. great! we would like to hear all about them. > What is the cost and licensing for this > product? during the month of may we will be selling the dynamic gif generator at an introdcutory price of 300 DM, which yahoo tells me is $162,13 (u.s. dollars) dynagif is not open source but we are very interested in making this component a "must have" by adding the features you as well as other zopists require. we have already gotten really good feedback from several people including paul @ d.c. and are looking to add these features. let us know what you need! > > of course you can also have a test account to try > > out the software yourself! > I'll test this when I have a direct need and > before I buy. when ever your ready. 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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RE: [Zope] Zope in German Linux mag + some remarks/questions
by Paul Everitt 21 May '99

21 May '99

Tom wrote: > Right now Zope is fully featured on our website > (take a look at the Cover too :-)) and I plan to put > the redesigned website (with Zope of course :-)) online > as soon as possible. This is great news! Amos, can you please put it in the News section? > Some remarks: > > 1. With Aquisition I could finally do > what I always wanted to do! Bellissimo! Poor CGI-Developpers :-) Acquisition occupies its own special space in the Zensphere. > 2. I was shocked this week when I read the message, > that by updating a property of an object one gets > a backup of that object too. Thinking a minute about Zope and > its possibilities this was of course obvious. I just forgot it > and implemented a banner-managment with "intelligent" banners > which know their URL, who often they are seen and clicked. > I wish I could change > >  >  >  >  > > to something like > >  >  >  >  > > Does this give sense? Is something like this planned? Zope2 will supply a facility to have multiple "Storage Managers" in the same Zope, where some of the Storage Managers are *not* multiple revision types. > 3. I do not have a clue how I can implement a search interface > for the website I did? Some pointers to the docs or maybe > a simple example would really be nice? The ephemeral Catalog. Plan for June. You'll be pleased with the results. > 4. My Data.bbb - file will be around 300 MB. Is this a problem? > I remember an email which mentions that Zope has > no problem with big datasets, but how big was that number? We've gone over a gig. (For you folks that wondered what the Data.bbb.index file was for, it is to speed up cranking up Zope with huge datasets.) Perhaps aggressive packing (e.g. daily) can help? > 5. Developping with Zope is just fun, although my learning > curve was quite steep :-) We don't make it easy enough, though the ZDP and Amos are working on it! --Paul

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RE: BeeHive / dynamic gif generator
by Mark Pratt 21 May '99

21 May '99

hello phil, > The Zope website has an 'advert' for BeeHive GmBH and it mentions the > dynamic gif creation product. However when you go to the site there seems > to be no way to actually download it. > > Am I missing something? sorry we didn't know the d.c. blurb about beehive was already online. the dynamic gif generator is a commercial zope product just like d.c.'s ZTable software. tomorrow i'll have screenshots up and if your interested i can set up an account on our zope server where you can test the product. here is how it works: - upload a background (must be .gif) - upload a true type font - add a dynamic gif tag to your document example:  Welcome back !  using the background image and the truetype font that you uploaded it will generate a new (dynamic) gif using the text or DTML tags included in the  tag. this product is currently only availible for linux. 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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Re: [Zope] Zope & FreeBSD
by Jeff Bauer 21 May '99

21 May '99

> Yes, I have such problem. I think that error occured because > pcgi_publisher.py didn't create var/pcgi.soc socket. This often occurs because the cgi process doesn't have write permission to the var directory. Have you run your Zope.cgi through pcgifile.py? (run as a cgi script) Best regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.

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