Hello, Dierk, There are several ways to use a relational database from within Zope. A good start for you would be the Zope SQL methods. Read the documentation about them at <http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZSQL-HTML/ZSQL.html>. Then experiment. When you get stuck, ask questions on this forum. Regards, Ivan Raikov "Dierk Hoeppner" <ho@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de> writes:

Hi,

I want to connect our own proprietary database to zope. I know which features I want because I did an ordinary CGI-application already. I would like to use a ZClass. My question: For connecting to my database do I have to use external functions? The goal is to construct a product like thing that we could easily give away.

Thanks,

Dierk Hoeppner