[Zope-dev] Desperately needing help!!

Pavlos Christoforou pavlos@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.edu
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 05:37:41 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Paul Chung Chee Soong wrote:

> 
> 1.  I can't create a External Method even though I had followed the   
> description. Can anyone give an example of how to do it?


Did you create the Extensions directory in the Zope root folder?
try something simple like

def simple(self):
	return 'Goodmorning'

and call it from a DTML method like:

<!--# var simple -->

> 2.  I can't use the Z Gadfly connection and Z SQL Method as a result of   
> the earlier. How did we create a data source anyway??!!

If I remeber well Gadfly is broken in some releases. 

Give us some more info as to what goes wrong when you try to instal an
external method

Pavlos