You can look in the archive of the 3 last weeks. Their where a discussion about your question. Oliver Marx schrieb:

Only one person answered me so far....

Come on guys and girls

\Oliver

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-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Oliver Marx Sent: 22. maj 2002 19:55 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Arguments for choosing Zope

Dear Reader

My company is considering Zope for all new web-applications. So far PHP has been our language of choice, but a switch to Zope seems to imply a switch to Python.

I must stress that CMS is *not* our main focus.

Our first application would be an Network / Inventory program with SNMP support an small clients updating the DB with information about installed software and the like.

We could choose Smarty templates/PHP4/Some db abstraction layer/Some DB, but I would personally choose Zope. Can you help me argument my case?

Thx for your time

\Oliver

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Database integration with ZSQLMethods especially transparent sql-quoting, ability to test SQL queries, ability to auto-generate default search forms, ability to browse large results-sets of data, via batch-processing capability of the <dtml-in> tag, will save you hours of design/development/debugging time. Python's ability to handle result sets as sequences and its ease-of-use is also a powerful added toolkit "feature". My use of Zope has mainly been in database driven sites and far less in CMS. I have also been involved with projects using PHP/MySQL, as well as Java/JDBC/Servlets and Java/JDBC/EJB's. For the kind of application you are describing, Zope wins by a large margin. There are a couple of quirks in DTML methods interfacing to ZSQL methods, that you need to be aware of and look for answers in the HOW-TO's and the Zope Book. Another very good reason to use Zope is the excellent support from the community on this list. On the PHP/MySQL side there appear to be a couple of published books on building database applications. But there are no in-depth Zope books focusing only on database integration. This could also be because Zope does make a lot of it easy. Nitin Borwankar Oliver Marx wrote:

Dear Reader

My company is considering Zope for all new web-applications. So far PHP has been our language of choice, but a switch to Zope seems to imply a switch to Python.

I must stress that CMS is *not* our main focus.

Our first application would be an Network / Inventory program with SNMP support an small clients updating the DB with information about installed software and the like.

We could choose Smarty templates/PHP4/Some db abstraction layer/Some DB, but I would personally choose Zope. Can you help me argument my case?

Thx for your time

\Oliver

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