At 23/12/2003 17:12, you wrote:
1. I need to have the members login from the first page of the fan club. Since their user information is stored in the database and I do not want to create a user account in zope for each user (there will be tons of users) I need to have them authenticate to gain access only to that specific members folder. At no time should anyone be able to bookmark a members only page and access it again without first authenticating. I also need to make sure that after a specific amount of time of inactivity their session expires.
Try exUserFolder.
2. I need to properly validate each and every form field in specific ways (i.e. for the phone number there should be no letters entered and only the correct amount of digits should be allowed). There are a lot of fields which all need specific validation rules.
Try Formulator, a very good product. But if your forms are already built it's difficult to change that.
3. I need to have sessions for the signup process so that the user can go back and correct information if they need to do so prior to confirming their submission and being sent the confirmation e-mail message.
See the Zope Book about sessions. Basically, you just store and retrieve things in REQUEST.SESSION Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL