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Zope as a desktop CMS?
by Frederic Faure 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hello, I'm trying to find a solution to help a friend manage his little web site that he currently handles using independant, hand-made web pages. His site only contains a bunch of essays and articles, and a blogging sectino. On the PHP front, EasyCMS looked simple enough and didn't require MySQL... but it seems like the navigator bar is static, and you need to add new article titles manually. Forget it. Zope could be an interesting solution, but he must have a full WYSIWYG HTML editor to create/revise his documents, so hand-made HTML or structured text won't do. Besides EasyPublish (to which I cannot register the free version, as their registration server is currently acting up; Must be Xmas), what do you suggest I try? Mozilla's Composer accessing objects through either FTP or WebDAV (not sure Composer supports WebDAV)? Some add-on that can be installed inside the ZMI so my friend can just click on say an Edit button, to be presented with a WYSIWYG editor? Thanks for any tip Fred.

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eCommerce for Zope / Plone: ZWarehouse, e-Tailer, others?
by Gerry Kirk 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Has anyone taken a look at ZWarehouse? Version 0.8 is in dev and 0.9 is supposed to provide Plone and ZODB integration. Installation seems a bit hokey atm, having to import the product as a binary file. I'm going to take a closer look at it soon. I saw a case study on zope.org that refers to a product e-Tailer. That product appears to no longer be open source. Are there other ones out there worth considering? I know of CMFCommerce, but it needs a fair amount of work. Cheers, Gerry

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Zope 2.7 startup in RedHat
by Anand Shah 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

How does one create a service/startup script for Zope to start automatically upon booting a machine, particularly for Zope 2.7 I am using Fedora as the OS Do I have to use this document as a guide? http://old.zope.org/Members/markoer2/resources/howtos/resources/howtos/ redhat_startup Please let me know... Kind Regards, Andy

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Zope used as development environment for *general* dynamic website programming like portals?
by falk.hertel＠t-online.de 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hallo Sirs, may I ask you all a simple question? "Is there anywhere a CMS program that is optimal for (complex) offer/seek portals?" All offered CMS on the market seem to be written only for editors although they could be used - when making some modifications on them - e.g. for portal development also, shouldn't they? Obviously there does not seem to exist a 'development environment' that combines the advantages of PHP editors (e.g. PHPEdit, Zend Studio, Maguma) and CMS (Typo3, Mambo, PHPNuke, etc.) and HTML-WYSIWYG editors (Dreamweaver, Fusion, GoLive, etc.)!? The problem so far is that... * a CMS mainly consists of a collection of scripts - without comfortable screen/surface and made only for editors. Therefore they have a very comfortable account management und a powerful script collection. * a PHP development tool does not have a comfortable surface and e.g do not support a comfortable way to access to databases (like it is e.g. done in Visual basic: the 'data control') . Therefore it comes with good development instruments like a debugger. * WYSIWYG editors have a bad support of dynamic programming (PHP scripts, database connection/queries, ...). Therefore they have a very comfortable possibility to build up a screen by drag&drop and they also care for the different browser versions. At the moment you can build up a portal only with several html and php supporting programs, and have to switch between them. Isn't there anywhere an environment that puts them all together and makes fast and easy dynamic web programming in general possible? Is Zope such a tool?? Or what are the advantages (and disadvantages?) of Zope here? * Are there import facilities for e.g. (Netobjects) Fusion (.nod) to take over their Navigation and templates? Or nice export possibilities? * Is there a debugger? * Does Zope care for different browsers? * Is there a Drag&drop facility for building templates? * Is Zope able to generate and manage a navigation bar (with open up under-layers) from the site tree-structur (see NO Fusion e.g.)? ... How would you compare Zope to e.g. Typo3 ? Do you know Typo3? Hmmh, is there any 'source' where I could get a general overview about CMS systems to find out which one is best for my purpose? Many thanks for your help!! My best regards to everybody, Falk PS: Merry christmas!

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Database Datatypes
by Wade Pearce 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Greetings all, I come to you with the hope the problem I have is easily fixed. Anyway, our server owner decided it was time to install the latest Debian hot fixes. Unknown to him (and undocumented by the hot fix), it proceeded to update Zope from 2.2 to 2.5.2 and Postgres from 6.5 to 7.2. Due to voluntary nature of our developers and the existence of legacy stuff in our website, we needed to keep these older versions running while a new website was built replacing our legacy stuff. Luckily, the upgrade hasn't caused as much trouble as we thought it would. In fact, Zope and Postgres seem to have coped quite well with it (thanking the big guy upstairs for that one). We've just run into one problem. The current website uses a lot of <dtml-call "REQUEST.set...> calls to push database field values to the top of the memory pile. In the previous version, if a returned value from the database was an integer, the variable assigned that value in the REQUEST.set would also assume an integer datatype. So, if "SELECT count(*) as total from table_1" was a Z SQL Method called in a DTML document and there was a <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('table_1_total',total)"> in the DTML document, then table_1_total would assume the datatype of integer. The problem we have now is that in the above example, table_1_total is assuming the datatype of string, so in fact, table_1_total = '0' not table_1_total = 0. This causes us problems all through the site, as any statement such as: <dtml-if expr="table_1_total > 0" will always be true, because '0' > 0. Now, is there a way to fix this or is it a design feature of the later versions of Zope/Python that requires a tightening of code? Just wish we had the time to take the machine down and give it the new hardware it needs so as we could have taken a rollback checkpoint prior to the upgrade. Any help greatly appreciated. Wade Pearce

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LocalFS FIX for Zope2.7b3 and PloneLocalFS released
by Andreas Heckel 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi all, after installing Zope2.7Beta3 (Python2.3.2) I had to make some fixes to get LocalFS working. You can get it at: http://www.easyleading.org/Downloads/ There you can also find an initial release of PloneLocalFS (requires my fixed LocalFS package) Andreas

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MySQL Threading
by Ralph vd Houdt 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi All, I'm currently writing an application in which an report-page is based on a heavy SQL query. The query runs about 15 seconds (the result will be stored in a session). For this reason I want to create a waiting page which checks if the SQL query has finished running. Does anybody know if I can run the SQL query in a separate thread and redirect to the report-page when the query has finished (by polling the thread). The results will be read from the session and used in the report-page. Any clues? Greetings Ralph

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zpt show content of div
by Frederik Vos 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hello, I have a Zope site, and use ZPT for it. Now i want on every page a little icon (that's the simple part ;) if you click on it, you'll get the same page, but very clean so the page can be printed without all the graphical stuff. So i have to make a new template, but how to call it ? (btw it's possible to do it with stylesheets, but it seems very browser independent: only Mozilla can handle it correctly). -- Frederik Vos <frederik.vos(a)be.easynet.net> Easynet Belgium

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Return a image instance from script
by Christoph Landwehr 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

A very simple (?) problem: from a script I want to pass an image object to an external method. In Python: >>> def test(): ... foo=open('new.gif') ... return foo ... >>> test() <open file 'new.gif', mode 'r' at 0x80df2e0> In Zope: def test(): foo=open('new.gif') return foo This does not return an instance of the image but <img src="http://foo.bar.com" alt="" title="" height="10" width="10" border="0" /> Zope's doing some magic. How do I get the image object? Regards Christoph

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Zope Digest, Vol 5, Issue 38
by brabo＠cba.hawaii.edu 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

I will be on vacation from 12/23/03 through 01/05/06.

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