I notice from the help files that Zope bills itself as an alternative to PHP - can I integrate PHP into it or do I not need it if we have Python? You don't need PHP. Python is a very nice, great, intuinitive scripting language. So the calculations, etc you perform in PHP can be done with 'Python Scripts'.... or dtml or 'External methods'. Zope also has a 'Perl method', which allows you to use Perl. There isn't a 'PHP method' as far as I know of.
I've never programmed in Python, but it seems fairly straightforward and not too removed from other scripting >languges.
My personal opinion: It is the nicest scripting language at the moment.
My question really, I spose, before I dive in and start writing things, is how good is Zope? Does it have any >obvious limitations?
Not that I know of at the moment. But I think every application has it's pro's and con's it depends for what you really want to use it. What's the support like? Great. People on the mailing list are very helpfull. If you really need big support, you can still hire a professional or contact zope.com and order a certain support contract.
I subscribed to this group about 12 hours ago and seem to have a healthy number of messages, so it looks pretty well supported - is this 'cause Zope is great, or are you all unfortunate victims that have somehow got locked in and now can't get out?!!
No, I'm here because I like Zope . :-)
Anyway, many thanks for any help!
My pleasure, I guess other users on this list can give better interesting experiences. Tom.