Thanks for your feedback :-)
Notes on this: Transparent Folders are not needed for this to work as you describe below. Aquisition is a natural property of folderish objects in Zope. What's special about Transparency is that their contents look like they're in the folder's parent. (This might allow you to organize your objects but make them available on the lower level.) Transparent Folders are known performance issues, however.
Just wanted to organize objects using folderish containers but not actually putting them into the folders. Did some research and found that what I want to do would be much like Shane's Symlink. I didn't mean to use Transparent Folder **product** :-) Guess I should have used the terms symbolic links or hard links.
Will this work without any problems? What would be the easiest way to implement this? ( Without relying on RDBMS like MySQL , of course :-)
You can do this as long as you're not relying on folder contents to find content.
Indeed, I need to rely on folder contents. They should act as that third MySQL table holding category_id-product_id key pairs.
A few approaches to consider: <snip>
Tought using folders would make life a lot easier. If not, I'd rather reuse those MySQL tables :-) I plan to use CMF but want to avoid using Topics. ( I already have more than 3,000 products being sold using that PHP shopping cart. Need as light an approach as possible. ) I just didn't want to use a URL like 'http://www.yourmall.com/describe_item?item_id=1010&category_id=Thriller" as the PHP version does. http://www.yourmall.com/Thriller/1010 looks and will work neater. Guess I'll try Shane's Symlink and see if it works fine with CMF. My initial try caused an error with CMF's skinning machinery. Again, thanks for your input. --------------------------------------------------------------- Wankyu Choi CEO/President NeoQuest Communications, Inc. http://www.zoper.net http://www.neoboard.net ---------------------------------------------------------------