On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:19:19PM -0600, Tres Seaver wrote:
They do not offer "normal" PHP as an option
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Of course, I also can't think of any reason to use PHP, but that is another issue altogether. :)
I can think of one: I wrote my first program in php in some minutes, while my first zope silliness took me days. - BUT - now I'm in this mailing list so I can flood you with questions. Please keep in mind that I'm a total newbie, at the moment I know little more than Nicholas Petreley about Zope. I'm fluent with python and slow but steady with html. My first site is for an antique trader (my father): four languages, lots of photos with descriptions, some search methods, some registered users, a private addressbook. There will be an "uploader" interface for my brother, a public and a "frequent customers" interface. I don't think the Photo product is stable enough for use, so I'll try and write something by myself. If I use a "pure" zope provider, do I need to keep the photos on the ZODB? Is it possible to write to the file system via an external python method, so that I can: * receive a photo with netscape * give it an unique filename * write it to the file * update the info (filename, descriptions) on a SQL table and then * reference (from DTML) or delete (from python) the photo by the filename stored on the SQL table ? The trouble with Zope is not that it isn't documented, but the documentation at first makes me fell stupid. I don't know why. It is like loving a girl you didn't have the chance to talk to. It makes me feel stupid. Maybe the fact that I need a 21" to look at my source, and I have to look at the source of the page returned by the browser to see the stack trace with my error (when there is a stack trace), has something to do with the stress I am having during my learning sessions. Will zopezilla (or mozzope)? enhance my Zope Experience? Thank you for reading this far.