Dennis Nichols <nichols@tradingconnections.com> wrote:

BACKGROUND: For the last 2 weeks I've been learning Zope so I can implement my current project using it. Just today, I looked at PTK for the first time since the day I discovered Zope. It seems to me that what I need falls halfway between just Zope and Zope-PTK.

REQUESTING: Advice, or advice on how to get advice :-)

A brief description of the project:

Substantial content, structured in a conventional hierarchy but with often changing content: - 15 top level picks - 1-8 sublevel picks per top level - 1 to 100 pages per sublevel (sometimes with own substructure) - Navigation tree on left similar to Zope Manage interface - About 5-10 "special" content creators who can, in addition, create structure - Total of about 20 "regular" content creators - Need review of content before publishing

Even more substantial unstructured content from other Members numbering x00,000 who can: - create content (may need review) in their own space - comment on content supplied by above content creators (may need review) - access web-based email - participate in forums (may need review)

The "special" content creators, "regular" content creators, and other members should all use the same authentication/authorization system.

None of the above seems particularly daunting to me -- given adequate time, I could construct it by coding and using various existing products on a Zope base or a PHP base. But the Zope base seems like the substantially better choice for this project. However, I don't know whether to turn down the PTK path or stick just with Zope (either way, I'm sure I'll use LoginManager).

Zope-PTK wins at providing: - non-framed management interface w/ wizards - reviewing mechanism

But fails entirely at: - supporting structured content

Left to my own devices, I'd start working on structured content within the PTK. However, the background noted in http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-April/000562.html makes it unclear as to how to proceed. I also note that Nitin Borwankar in http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-April/000569.html is working on a similar (I think) task.

All advice gleefully welcomed!!!

You can define your own classes which derive from PortalContent, and be home free from there. Run, don't walk, to the zope-ptk list archives to check it out. The PTK is headed *exactly* where you want to be. Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com tseaver@palladion.com