[Zope-dev] Re: external product writing to a file system ?

[Dr. Ross Lazarus]

It's easy to pull text/html files in to dtml methods or documents using
an external method. I do it a lot to keep the zope ODB from blowing out
- the filesystem is a good place to store bulky text and there are fine
tools for editing html on any filesystem - much better than an html
textbox ! 

I'll package up some external methods I use and send them to the zope
site when I get a moment. 

Fully rendering dtml to an html string (same way zope does !) from an
external method still eludes me. Happy to release the zope equivalent of
wget once that's working. Anyone ?


"PP Jose C. Lacal" wrote:
> 
> When will you release the product?
> 
> Also, what about the opposite effect:
> - An external method that **reads** existing HTML
> files from the file system?
> 
> The possible application?
> 
> Letīs say I host my website with a hosting service
> that does not support Zope directly. Yet, if I am able
> to install Zope on my personal disk space, I could get
> Zope running (on port :81, say) and then Zope would
> read and write the HTML files to the filesystem.
> 
> The point: using Zope to *maintain* my site, through a
> web interface that is a lot friendlier than FTPing
> HTMl files up to the web hosting service.
> 
> Just an idea.

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