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- Designing multilingual site in Zope?
by Ricky Ng-Adam 21 Dec '98

21 Dec '98

Hi, I'd like to know if someone had experience designing a multilingual web site in Zope / Principia / Bobo? I have to build a web site with a lots of dynamically generated web pages from an SQL database and was wondering how to do it so that I can present documents in french and english (and maybe in other languages as well later). Off my head, I can think of two ways of doing this; either using cookies (which some users might not want so I'd rather not use them) or having a hierarchical structure where the same bundle of logic is either under localhost/fr-CA or localhost/en with the object instance (???) having a property containing the appropriate language code. The preferred language is of course selected from the root page in any case. Does someone have a better idea or some way to implement my ideas? Thanks, -- Ricky Ng-Adam Montreal (Quebec), Canada [Powered by Linux!] |Need an analyst-programmer or a network administrator? | |http://www.dsuper.net/~rngadam/ |

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- PCGI with IIS 4.0
by Hannu Krosing 21 Dec '98

21 Dec '98

Hi, Where can I get information (preferably a sample) for using pcgi with IIS ? My problem is that lured by the simplicity of getting pcgi to work on linux/apache I have promised to port my web app to IIS. I remember that there used to be several references for getting PCGI to work on IIS, but I can't find any of them now ;( and the included readme points to http://starship.skyport.net/crew/jbauer/persistcgi/ which is also not very helpful for IIS newbie like me (I have no idea how to make IIS execute the info file using pcgi_wrapper.exe, which I guess is the thing I should do) The only thing I did do was disabling challenge/response authentication in IIS, as recommended in Zope docs. And on possibly unrelated theme - my Zope (beta 3) doesn't run either on NT, after installing and starting the service it just says: Sorry, an error occurred.<p>  Any help is very much appreciated, ---------------------------- Hannu Krosing

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- Dynamic database of documents?
by richard.jones＠fulcrum.com.au 21 Dec '98

21 Dec '98

My current project involves the maintenance of a database of documents. The documents are split up into a tree structure and each entry in the tree is editable. In Bobo-land (which is where we're developing the application until I understand Zope enough to move there) we just have a heirarchy of objects that reflect the contents of the database. This exposes itself as a URL of: docs/DID/MID/TID/edit for the edit method of the Topic entry given by the ID from the database, TID. MID and DID are the Module ID and Document ID. Problem is, I can't see a way of getting Zope to do the DID part of the URL. That is, have a folder ID that is dynamic (I _think_ that's what I mean ;) Richard

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RE: [Zope] - Zope Ports
by Jeff Bauer 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

> My first thought as well (Linux box) and Zope starts, but not > on Port 80. To run port 80 on Unix you'll have to be root, which is probably not a good idea for development, if you can avoid it. these-days-everyone-gets-to-be-"super"-user-ly yr's, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.

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- Form-based input question (gadfly - Zope Zen)
by Brad Marsh 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

Baby steps... I ran the Gadfly example, which worked great, and caused several epiphanies. I can deal with templates now... SO I decided to try some modifications. I now have a "View the Data" document in the gadflySample folder that shows me the contents of the zopedelic's zopista table in a nice format. Woo-hoo. Then I decided to try a simple input form that would send values to a modified insert_data Z SQL Method, which in turn would update the database. I have: <FORM NAME="insert" ACTION="insert_data"> two <SELECT> boxes, named "cola" and "colb" <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Insert Data"> When I select two numbers and click the "Insert Data" button, it goes and tries the insert_data method, which I've modified thus: insert into zopista (col_a,col_b) values (, ) The insert_data method first says, "This query requires no input." Clicking the "Submit query" button yields an error (not unexpectedly ;), to wit: "Error, exceptions.KeyError: cola SQL used: Could not render the query template!" I'm missing something big in my Zope Zen... Where might I find instruction on creating a query that will take forms-based input for its variables? Is there a cool method around that shows the contents of all the variables available (like the PHP <? phpinfo() ?> )? Thanks for the patience, Brad Brad Marsh, Computer Specialist Center for Evaluation and Research, LLC (530) 527-5537 or 527-5638 fax http://www.tchp.org/cer/

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- Zope Ports
by Dave Goodrich 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

What is the prferred method for setting Zope to port 80? I can see several ways that might do it, should I create my own start script? or serve.py script? DAve.

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Re: [Zope] - Zope Ports
by Dave Goodrich 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Brad Marsh scratched: >Dave, > >At 01:19 PM 12/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >>What is the prferred method for setting Zope to port 80? I can see several >>ways that might do it, should I create my own start script? or serve.py script? > >Please pardon my Gates-ness... > >I am running Zope on port 80 on a Win95 machine. I did it by starting zope with the argument -p [port]. They provide us with a batch file that starts zope. I run the batch file to wit: > >c:\zope\start.bat -p 80 My first thought as well (Linux box) and Zope starts, but not on Port 80. :^( DAve.

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- RE: beta 3 won't install
by Dave Goodrich 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

OK, it will ;^) I finally left off the set up args and just typed $sh ../install and all is well. I then went back and changed my access. Why the install args worked with beta 2 and not beta 3 I don't understand, but it's serving now. DAve.

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RE: [Zope] - It's alive! (making ZMySQLDA works)
by Jeff Bauer 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

Ricky Ng-Adam writes: > -point your browser to http://localhost:9673/manage > (not 8080; is it me or did this change from beta 2 to > beta 3??) and enter correct username/password I'll claim some share of responsibility for this change. Earlier, I had mentioned to the Zope crew that a number of existing web products make use of ports 80, 81, 8000, 8080, 8888, etc., and that this would cause problems for people who were running on machines where these ports were already reserved by other processes. My suggestion was to use 9673. Why? The mnemonic is Z-O-P-E on many touch tone telephones. At any rate, the install program (I think) now allows you to specify the port of your choice. Best regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.

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- It's alive! (making ZMySQLDA works)
by Ricky Ng-Adam 20 Dec '98

20 Dec '98

Hello! Ok, so I finally got both Zope and the ZmySQLDA to work... For those who don't read documentation like me, here's a quick review of the different steps required: -download and extract Zope beta 3 -cd to your newly created Zope directory structure -launch the install process with "python wo_pcgi.py" -download and extract the ZmySQL source package from the top directory of your Zope installation -download and extract the mySQL package INTO lib/python/Products/ZmySQLDA (I thought I had to install it separately with the other Python dynamic modules; why not just include it in the tar file???) -from there, customize the Makefile if needed and run make -customize your own access file in Zope top directory with username:password -launch ./serve.sh -point your browser to http://localhost:9673/manage (not 8080; is it me or did this change from beta 2 to beta 3??) and enter correct username/password -if you have not already done so, launch your MySQL database as root with safe_mysqld -you can now use the "test" database normally included in MySQL (at least 3.21.33) to see if everything works ok; it's a quite nice example about air flight management -first, create a MySQL database connection with the following connection string: test nobody (I had to look into the source to find out that the connection string is "database username password" all separated by space) -You can now add your own Z MySQL methods in the Zope manager. Use this simple query: "select * from flight" as an example -You can now test it directly in the manager with the tab "Test". Nice! -You should now have a nicely formatted table of flights -Enjoy! BTW, the FAQ in the doc subdirectory of Zope makes for excellent reading even if you don't have any particular question... I would also recommend that you "use the source Luke" since I couldn't find any doc about ZmySQL and the source it's copiously commented ;-) Good luck everyone, -- Ricky Ng-Adam Montreal (Quebec), Canada [Powered by Linux!] Need an analyst-programmer or a network administrator? http://www.dsuper.net/~rngadam/

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