[Zope-CMF] Newbie: CMF and ZPT manual / guidelines

[Dieter Maurer]

Lubos Culen wrote at 2003-3-31 18:39 +0200:
 > I have done simple website pages mostly using ZPT (sometimes DTML and Python
 > scripts) and content documents. Because I need to use workflow on these
 > pages, I'm now considering to "convert" the pages into CMF architecture and
 > use DCWorkflow. But I was not able to find documentation which I could
 > understand enough - I tried the CMF beehive [
 > http://cmf.zope.org/Members/beehive/ZWACKChap5.html/ ], but this is based on
 > the DTML structure of the website, and I need something which I could
 > understand ZPT architecture using CMF better (I don't like to re-edit all
 > page templates back to HTML)
 > 
 > Could you advice me some better documentation or tutorial which is the best
 > way of use the CMF together with ZPT? (how are the most common website
 > structures, best ways to do folders and logic, etc.)

Most things are the same whether you use DTML or ZPT for presentation.
Just use ZPT (or more likely "FSPageTemplates") for your skin (aka
presentation).


Dieter