On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:58:54PM -0400, Luis Bordas wrote:
We have a project of a Web-zine that has to run on a Linux box. I heard about Zope and I'm impressed so far.
The site will have functionality like "related news" and "send this to a friend". We also need to be able to categorize the content/news and search with keywords. Have you looked at Squishdot? It does provides a slashdot-like interface to news and is used by several sites (http://www.technocrat.net and http://www.kdeforum.org). Also, the source is available so you could use features from it or modify it to suit your needs. It is based on a more generic product called ZConfera by Digital Creations(??). Check the Zope site for more info on that.
There will be "subscribers" that will receive daily tips with links to the news on the Web site. Those will be stored in a RDBMS.
You could use a cron script with Python to grab the info from Zope (XML-RPC) and send the emails.
We took a look at PHP3 and MySQL as an interesting choice, but after reading about Zope we would like to take the better alternative.
I'll second that...PHP3 gets ugly when dealing with medium->large sites
Is it possible to use the Z ODB to store the news instead of a RDBMS, without loosing the functionality we need?... Maybe a combination of Zope and MySQL?.
Depends on the size of your data. With the ZMySQLDA (Zope MySQL Database Adapter), you can run queries on a MySQL database from Zope code and even encapulate the returned rows as objects! That way, you retain the flexibility of Zope while your data can be stored in MySQL. -- Stephen Pitts smpitts@midsouth.rr.com webmaster - http://www.mschess.org