Web application for Property company
Hi, I'm thinking of building web application for a property company. This property company has staffs who works as agent for the company. The company is thinking to have a portal which can do following: -The agents can customize his/her own page -> agentA.propertyPortal.com or agentB.propertyPortal.com -The agents can post pictures of his/her properties in his working directory/page. Basically each agent has an independent portal solution which include search capabilities. -But if the user logon to the main portal which is www.propertyPortala.com the user can search entire properties of the whole agents. My questions: -If I use Zope, shall I use CMF? -Would it be enough to build this type of application only knowing: DTML and Python? Can someone judge how long this will take? Consider: -I'm a Java programmer and don't know much about Python -I know DTML and basic Zope. thanks, Brian Service provided by MaGlobe Prepaid Worldwide Internet Access (visit www.MaGlobe.com)
--On Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 17:52 +0800 Brian <newbie@konzoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking of building web application for a property company. This property company has staffs who works as agent for the company.
The company is thinking to have a portal which can do following: -The agents can customize his/her own page -> agentA.propertyPortal.com or agentB.propertyPortal.com -The agents can post pictures of his/her properties in his working directory/page. Basically each agent has an independent portal solution which include search capabilities.
-But if the user logon to the main portal which is www.propertyPortala.com the user can search entire properties of the whole agents.
My questions: -If I use Zope, shall I use CMF?
This sounds like a very good job for CMF since it supports customizing the look and feel through skins.
-Would it be enough to build this type of application only knowing: DTML and Python?
Python, CMF and ZPT should be your choice.
Can someone judge how long this will take?
Depends on your knowledge in Zope, CMF and Python, ZPT....and your requirements...hard to say how long it will take....
Consider: -I'm a Java programmer and don't know much about Python -I know DTML and basic Zope.
..learning by doing...learn about Zope by reading the Zope Book; learning Python should not the hardest task.... Andreas
Yes, I've been thinking to use CMF. But I still cannot find how to deploy a product into CMF. The problem: there is very little CMF documentation. For the skinning issue, there shouldn't be a big problem, as I can look thorugh the whole portal_skin But besides this, I don't know how those portal products are related. -> very confusing. I've just seen a new book released about CMF. But it is in french. Hmm.. there is no english version yet. So, at this moment, CMF is best option. But I still think to develop it without CMF due to poort CMF documentation. thanks, Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com> To: "Brian" <newbie@konzoo.com>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Web application for Property company
--On Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 17:52 +0800 Brian <newbie@konzoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking of building web application for a property company. This property company has staffs who works as agent for the company.
The company is thinking to have a portal which can do following: -The agents can customize his/her own page -> agentA.propertyPortal.com or agentB.propertyPortal.com -The agents can post pictures of his/her properties in his working directory/page. Basically each agent has an independent portal solution which include search capabilities.
-But if the user logon to the main portal which is
www.propertyPortala.com
the user can search entire properties of the whole agents.
My questions: -If I use Zope, shall I use CMF?
This sounds like a very good job for CMF since it supports customizing the look and feel through skins.
-Would it be enough to build this type of application only knowing: DTML and Python?
Python, CMF and ZPT should be your choice.
Can someone judge how long this will take?
Depends on your knowledge in Zope, CMF and Python, ZPT....and your requirements...hard to say how long it will take....
Consider: -I'm a Java programmer and don't know much about Python -I know DTML and basic Zope.
..learning by doing...learn about Zope by reading the Zope Book; learning Python should not the hardest task....
Andreas
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I guess CMF could be a solution, check out plone (www.plone.org) as well; concerning your subdomain issue: what about using apache serving requests in front of zope and use rewrite rules (mod_rewrite) to provide virtual hosts such that a query to agenta.propertyportal.com is being forwarded to propertyportal.com/agenta this would mean any top-level zope folder would be accessible via a "subdomain" (setting this up is only a dns issue), thus solving your search problem. cheers, oliver Am 26.09.2002 11:52 Uhr schrieb "Brian" unter <newbie@konzoo.com>:
Hi,
I'm thinking of building web application for a property company. This property company has staffs who works as agent for the company.
The company is thinking to have a portal which can do following: -The agents can customize his/her own page -> agentA.propertyPortal.com or agentB.propertyPortal.com -The agents can post pictures of his/her properties in his working directory/page. Basically each agent has an independent portal solution which include search capabilities.
-But if the user logon to the main portal which is www.propertyPortala.com the user can search entire properties of the whole agents.
My questions: -If I use Zope, shall I use CMF? -Would it be enough to build this type of application only knowing: DTML and Python?
Can someone judge how long this will take? Consider: -I'm a Java programmer and don't know much about Python -I know DTML and basic Zope.
thanks, Brian
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