On Thursday 02 December 2004 18:05, Alan Snyder wrote:
I'm in love with zope from what i've seen of this Elvis Sightings interactive demo. It's so friggin' easy to build functionalities into pages. Holy smokes!!
Before I go further with this, I have some questions...
1) I am creating all of these pages through the zope manager interface which is great, but is it possible, and if so how, to do what I'm doing here and update a client remotely through something like a CVS or some pre-packaged zope update? Is it a matter of just copying files and such from a folder (like the parent elvis sightings folder), or do i need to grab stuff from different zope config areas and work it. Bottom line - is there any synchronization or update mechanisms available that let me develop and fix sites locally and effect those changes on a remote server, i.e. at a client?
Yes, there is a nifty synchronization product, which once installed on 2 zope instances, will show you a diff, and synchronize them for you! Search zope.org products section for synch...
2) I saw in one of the chapters that each page can reference a template (like standard_template.something)... This looks really cool for giving a similar layout to pages in a "folder". Can sub-folder templates "over-ride" parent folder templates. In other words, if i copy the "standard_template" file to a sub folder and slightly modify it will that version be picked up by those folder's pages, or will the parent version be used?
That is one of the main purposes of the whole thingy! Now you got the Idea!
3) What are the items in that drop down list of things in the upper right corner of every folder called? It has stuff like "DTML Document, Mai Host..." Are those "products"? Where can I find more of those. They're wonderful. Also - how hard are they to install at a client? What mechanisms are available for producing "install scripts" for clients who want to use the stuff I build?
They are prodcuts, usually installation consists of copying an additional directory to the products directory, and restarting zope. Some products are a little more complex (require special python packages, or linux/windows dlls) You can find most on zope.org download zope products section. You rest you have to google for! I suggest you look into zetadb, it sounds like it might be usefull to you! Jerry
Thanks again.
Lovin' Zope so far!
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:04:51 -0500, Alan Snyder <alan8373@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in love with zope from what i've seen of this Elvis Sightings interactive demo. It's so friggin' easy to build functionalities into pages. Holy smokes!!
Before I go further with this, I have some questions...
1) I am creating all of these pages through the zope manager interface which is great, but is it possible, and if so how, to do what I'm doing here and update a client remotely through something like a CVS or some pre-packaged zope update? Is it a matter of just copying files and such from a folder (like the parent elvis sightings folder), or do i need to grab stuff from different zope config areas and work it. Bottom line - is there any synchronization or update mechanisms available that let me develop and fix sites locally and effect those changes on a remote server, i.e. at a client? 2) I saw in one of the chapters that each page can reference a template (like standard_template.something)... This looks really cool for giving a similar layout to pages in a "folder". Can sub-folder templates "over-ride" parent folder templates. In other words, if i copy the "standard_template" file to a sub folder and slightly modify it will that version be picked up by those folder's pages, or will the parent version be used? 3) What are the items in that drop down list of things in the upper right corner of every folder called? It has stuff like "DTML Document, Mai Host..." Are those "products"? Where can I find more of those. They're wonderful. Also - how hard are they to install at a client? What mechanisms are available for producing "install scripts" for clients who want to use the stuff I build?
Thanks again.
Lovin' Zope so far!
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:40:28 +0100, bruno modulix <bruno@modulix.org> wrote:
Alan Snyder wrote:
Ok - I think I'll play with Zope 2 - I have a book on it and can flip through that. I'll play with the base Zope packages first and then hop onto Plone. I love the layout and look and feel of Plone and I'm curious about the visuals of naked zope.
'naked' Zope doesn't have much visuals - unless you're talking about the ZMI !-)
There's no better way to find out than to play so I'm hopefully able to dedicate today to that task.
Have fun, and don't despair : beginning with Zope is known to be somewhat difficult, but the reward is worth the time invested.
Bruno --
Bruno Desthuilliers - Analyste-programmeur bruno@modulix.org www.modulix.com
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