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ZClass hitCounter
by Tom Deprez 15 May '99

15 May '99

Dummy me! I found the problem... I was putting a 'inc' DTML method in the product 'pHitCounter', instead of in it's class 'cHitCounter'. Shawn, no, I don't need a counter yet. I was really trying ZClasses out by creating a HitCounter... I came on the idea when viewing the DTML-demos. Q : Is this scenario possible : Is it possible to show a piece of a picture on a form? I.e. you've a picture in Zope and you want to copy a rectangular part from this picture so you can show it somewhere else (only that piece). Tom.

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Re: [Zope] Midgard
by Christopher Petrilli 15 May '99

15 May '99

> Careful with that Axe, Martijn! ;) Chris Petrelli brought up the point > just the other day that the ability to quicky and easily add objects to > the 'Add' menu can mean trouble. It is the opinion of some the add menu > is too big as it is. I'm sure many of you have sat down at a Windows > machine whose user didnt' organize their start menu very deep, and the > 'Programs' menu was pages upon pages of menu options all at the same > depth. In that particular case, we are talking about user error, but in > this case, it is a limitation of the web pulldown box widget (not really > a limitation of the existing widget, but the lack of a more complex > structured one). A'hoy! I knew Michel was up to something, my ears hurt... Seriously though, I think that there are some elegant ways to solve this. If only there were "cascading menus" in HTML ;-) > So this will require some thought. It is all good and cool that we can > create our own objects very quickly now, but it can get out of hand (you > should see my sandbox!) I've heard tell, "oh my gawd, where did I put that class?!?!?!?!" and yet there must be a better way. I will simply toss out that the idea of a better management interface is brewing, and the reality is that *soon* there will be some hefty overhauls into roles in the management interfaces that will I believe permit some elimination of this for MOST people who use the environment. All in due course! Money will of course, speed the process! Send your $100 bills to... >> Midgard's authentication system is fairly limited. I'd miss >> acquisition! > > Wouldn't we all. My take is it's more a "prebuilt" environment to do your PHP3 stuff in, but that doesn't make it an "application server" any more than a single ASP is an application server. That doesn't mean there aren't any neat ideas :-) Chris -- Christopher Petrilli Digital Creations petrilli(a)digicool.com

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zope graphics designers
by Jeff Bauer 15 May '99

15 May '99

Possibly off-topic suggestion follows ... Hi all. It has occurred to me that Digital Creations maintains a list of Zope-friendly ISP's, but no recommendations for Zope graphical design services. It's possible (though unlikely) that DC wants to stake out this area for itself. Assuming the opposite, how about providing a list of Zope-cognizant graphics designers? Basically, participants would need to know (or be willing to learn) the fundamentals of DTML, but this should not present too much of a barrier to entry. In the competitive business of graphics design, a distinguishing niche might provide participating designers with a useful advantage. Companies who may never otherwise have heard about a particular design firm might discover their services via Zope.org. It almost goes without saying (except I'm saying it anyway) that "Zope Certified" or somesuch designation advertised by graphics designers provides a slight boost for Zope. Sort of like what happens when an airline advertises about serving Starbucks coffee. Starbucks gets an unpaid endorsement implying the superiority of their product. Thoughts? Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc. P.S. It also goes without saying that Zope-aware graphics designers are superior to those who aren't. ;)

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RE: [Zope] RE: BeeHive / dynamic gif generator
by Paul Everitt 15 May '99

15 May '99

Mark wrote: > Phil wrote: > > 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. Sorry, I was out at WWW8 and asked Amos to do this for me. I should have announced to everybody what's going on (especially to Mark). Fortunately Amos did a really good job. Basically, there is a lot of really interesting stuff going on out in the Zope community. I wanted to carve out a space on the home page to "spotlight" these exciting developments. Right now we are planning to rotate every two weeks or so. Let us know if you are interested in being spotlighted! Things went really well for the two talks in Toronto. More in a moment... --Paul

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Re: [Zope] ZClass hitCounter
by Tom Deprez 15 May '99

15 May '99

Sorry, I still don't get it... I'm trying here several things, but it look like I'm running in circles... Can someone provide me a simple example? The property which needs to be incremented is hitCount. And how to call the increment method from an instance...? Thanks. Tom. ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> To: Tom Deprez <tom.deprez(a)village.uunet.be> Sent: zaterdag 15 mei 1999 12:51 Subject: Re: [Zope] ZClass hitCounter : : : >  : >  : >  : >  : > : > And what do I've to place in the DTML method 'increment'.... : : try something like "increment(REQUEST, _)" : : see JimF's recent post about this - that's what DTML methods get : called with by default. : : Anthony : -- : Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> : It's never too late to have a happy childhood. : :

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ZClass hitCounter
by Tom Deprez 15 May '99

15 May '99

Ok, I've managed to get the increment of the counter from an instance :    Now, I want to have a method 'inc' in the product HitCounter which increments the hitCount... how to get this done? I can't get it to work.... I don't even know how to call this method, because : 1. nothing happes, or 2. I can system is unavailable... with 1.     2.     And what do I've to place in the DTML method 'increment'.... Please, can somebody help me? Tom.

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Does Zope use dynamic scoping?
by Paul Crowley 15 May '99

15 May '99

I'm new to this, but I've got quite far and now I'm stuck - help! This is with Zope-1.11.0pr1 under Linux. As an exercise, I'm trying to write a Slashdot-esque threaded comment system using PostgreSQL and ZPyGreSQL, and I wonder if my assumptions about scoping are biting me. Comments have an Object Identifier, "oid". I have an SQL method "allcomments" that looks up all comments, and defines "oid" among other variables (eg "subject"). "responses" looks up all the comments that are responses to "oid". allcomments looks like this: select *, oid from comments and repliesto like this: select *,oid from comments    This code works fine:  <ul>  <li>  </ul>  So why is it that this code works fine: <ul> <li>Before  <li> <ul> <li>Before:    <li>  <li>After:  </ul>  <li>After </ul> and does what you expect (in particular, the subject doesn't change across the inner allcomments), but if I replace the inner "allcomments" with "repliesto", I get this: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: Bad Request Error Value: ['oid'] This is frustrating my attempts to use recursion to build threading trees, it's late and I've written too many test scripts. Help much appreciated! -- __ \/ o\ paul(a)hedonism.demon.co.uk http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/paul/ \ / /\__/ Paul Crowley Upgrade your legacy NT machines to Linux /~\

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commercial zope hosting
by Scott Lewis 15 May '99

15 May '99

hi there, has anyone used either of the two web hosting providers listed on the zope site, CodeIt and NexusWeb? if so, how was the service and reliability? i'm looking for affordable (<$25), basic hosting that includes zope. anyone know of other providers not listed? CodeIt wants $35-50/month which seems kind of steep. NexusWeb just told me that they would install zope in your directory on their basic business account ($20), without support. that's fine and the price is right, but i'd feel better if they came with some positive recommendations... on an unrelated note, does it seem that things are really starting to take off for zope? i just came on board last month, but it seems like there's been an increase in activity even in that time period. thanks, -scott ----- Scott Lewis Baltic Avenue Productions csl(a)balticave.com

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Re: [Zope] commercial zope hosting
by Kevin Dangoor 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hi, Scott I've been a CodeIt customer for the past couple of months and have been happy with their service. The good thing about CodeIt is that these guys grok Zope. They will actually manage the Zope software for you. (The downside to this is that you can run experimental versions of Zope, but you shouldn't be doing that anyway if you want a reliable site :) That's the same story with any managed service.) I'm not sure if anyone is using Nexusweb for Zope. Nexusweb doesn't run Apache (I don't remember the name of the server off the top of my head.) So, there may be some hacking involved in getting Zope running there. That's one other plus to CodeIt's setup. Since they are offering *Zope Hosting* in particular, they may be able to offer ZServer in the future. So, you'll be able to FTP into your ZODB, and you remove all CGI overhead. As far as things taking off for Zope in the past month, I think that's largely because the DC guys have been *really* busy gearing up for Linux Expo. There's a lot going on. Kevin --- Scott Lewis <csl(a)balticave.com> wrote: > hi there, > > has anyone used either of the two web hosting > providers listed on > the zope site, CodeIt and NexusWeb? if so, how was > the service > and reliability? > > i'm looking for affordable (<$25), basic hosting > that includes zope. > anyone know of other providers not listed? > > CodeIt wants $35-50/month which seems kind of steep. > NexusWeb > just told me that they would install zope in your > directory on their > basic business account ($20), without support. > that's fine and the > price is right, but i'd feel better if they came > with some positive > recommendations... > > on an unrelated note, does it seem that things are > really starting to > take off for zope? i just came on board last month, > but it seems > like there's been an increase in activity even in > that time period. > > thanks, > > -scott > > > ----- > Scott Lewis > Baltic Avenue Productions > csl(a)balticave.com > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion > list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

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UserDb
by Ross J. Reedstrom 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hey all - Anybody use UserDb under Zope 1.11.0pr1? I'm getting an error about an undefined Key PARENT_URL. A quick grep through Zope sources for 1.10.2 and 1.11.0pr1 indicates that it went away. Anybody patched it up? Are there other problems lurking? Ross P.S. Yes, the implication that I got access to my PostgreSQL database working from the Zope/Win32 install is accurate: I had forgotten about the ZODBCDA! So, a quick install of postODBC and ZODBCA on the NT web server, and voila! data comes pouring out. Aren't all these OpenSource pieces wonderful? -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(a)rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005

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