Holy moly! I'm installing zope onto my debian laptop right now. I can't wait to play with it. My only question is should I attempt to get the latest and greatest zope (X3, I believe) and latest and greatest python (2.4), or stick with the standard apt-get stuff. Thanks again - I'm sure I'll have more questions as I delve deeper and discover more stuff. On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:40:59 +1100, Andrew Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> wrote:
+-------[ Alan Snyder ]---------------------- | | I'm going to research more into this, but from what I've read here, | Zope is an application server and framework. Now, with that said, just | installing Zope, in and of itself, doesn't give you anything that you | could tinker with say in apache (like Plone).
That's not entirely true, depending on what you mean by tinker.
Zope has through-the-web development available as well, so you can prototype applications or play with concepts from your browser, without doing python product development as it were.
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I do need CMS functions in the apps I'll be developing | (file upload/download, Wiki, etc.), so if I could get a consistent | look and feel from Plone and still have the power and functionality of | Zope, that would be good. Is this likely / possible, or, am I totally | off here?
You don't need Plone to get consistent look and feel. Zope comes with two templating systems , DTML, and ZPT (Zope Page Templates).
ZPT is quite easy to use to get a consistent look and feel. You design one master template that defines your structure (by defining content slots), includes your CSS, and javascript. Your remaining templates reference this main template and override or fill in slots from the master template.
This is exactly what Plone does, using the standard Zope items. Plone just provides a lot more "Portal" type functionality.
-- Andrew Milton akm@theinternet.com.au