Thomas Adams wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a newbie to Zope, using version 2.7.3 (okay it is not the newest one) and I want to know if there is something like a MVC approach available for Zope, i.e. Model-View-Controller approach, as it is for instance in Java with the Struts framework from Apache.
(snip description of MVC à la Struts)
To transfer this appraoch to Zope, I'm not sure:
Views: DTML-Document and/or DTML-Methods?
Nope, use ZopePageTemplates instead. DTML is useful for non-html templating (css, Javascript, SQL etc), but it's an horror when it comes to html IMHO.
Controller: PythonScripts?
You could get away with Python scripts, but Zope product(s) might be your best bet. Note that a single Zope Product can be composed of multiple classes, external methods, templates etc...
Models: I'm absolutely not sure, Pluggable brains?
Why ? This goes into the product too. Understand that a Zope product is not restricted to a single class, and that not all classes in a Zope product needs to be persistant or whatsoever. My 2 cents -- Bruno Desthuilliers Développeur bruno@modulix.org