Frank Peavy <fpeavy@pop.net> writes:
Being new to Zope, I would like to minimize my learning curve to some extent. I guess I am a little confused between the uses of TAL, ZPT and Python.
Where should one start to learn TAL? or ZPT?
Zope Page Templates use TAL (Template Attribute Language). You can't learn one without the other. I would heartily recommend that you read Chapter 5 (and Chapter 9) of the Zope Book for an overview of how this technology works. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/ I would strongly suggest taking a bit of static HTML, importing it into Zope as a Page Template and then adding some TAL attributes to add dynamic values. Take a look at the default values of a new ZPT for easy examples of things to try. It's not particularly hard, but it is a bit of a different mindset from other web programming toolkits like PHP that mix the HTML and the business logic into one big gumbo mishmash. Good Luck Jason