Hi Dan, I understand the creation of products in Zope. But I dont want to create products because my requirement is just to create persistent classes which are relevant only within the current project I am working in. So making products dont suit that requirement. Can't we just directly create class objects into the ZODB using python scripts from within Zope ? Any ideas anybody ? I will take a look at the MetaPublisher meanwhile. Thanks. bobbby -----Original Message----- From: Dan Shafer [mailto:dshafer@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:12 PM To: zope@zope.org Cc: bobby@stylusinc.com Subject: Re: Zope digest, Vol 1 #1674 - 27 msgs I'm still feeling a bit of the Newbie myself, so this answer may need to be corrected by someone with more background, but I figured it was a good chance for me to contribute _something_ back to this wonderful community. In the Zope Book, Chapter 12 covers "Extending Zope." It teaches you how to create new Zope products and then to use Z Classes. That's probably the right approach to doing this project if you want to learn the programmatic approach. You would start by adding a new Customer product through the Control Panel interface in Zope, then add your properties to it. Then you'd add the DTML documents to do the stuff you want: add, edit, delete, etc. Everything gets stored automagically in the Zope DB that way. But another option presents itself. You could download and install MetaPublisher from Beehive. This is a quite wonderful product that lets you define new classes and objects with properties, including the automatic generation of screens to add, edit, search, and delete those objects. As a little test, I used MP to create your Customer object. Took about 3 minutes. Hope this helps a little and isn't too far from how a real Zopista would do this! From: "Bobby Mathew" <bobby@stylusinc.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Cc: <zope-db@zope.org> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:55:09 +0530 Subject: [Zope] Newbie Help needed Using the Zope Object Database Hi All, I have been playing around with Zope as a newbie for sometime now. Now I = want to start using the Object Database for my regular applications. I = know the paradigm of using Object databases being different from the = regular RDBMS. Now I understand how to design persistent classes in the = object paradigm but I am not clear how to store these classes within = Zope in the database. Can someone enlighten me on how to create the = following customer class as a persistent class within Zope. Customer Attributes : Name Age Methods : AddCustomer(Name, Age) DeleteCustomer(Name) LocateCustomer(Name) I know about using python to create classes but its not clear how to use = python scripts and how to store persistent classes with Zope itself = instead of python. Help... Thanks for any thoughts on this... bobby ===== --------------- Dan Shafer, Author/Consultant http://www.danshafer.com - Personal Site http://www.gui.com - Ghostwriting Site dshafer@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com