[Zope] Automatically Populating the title Property on html filesimported via ftp

[Webteam der Uni Bielefeld]

Rik Hoekstra wrote:
> 
> >
> > >
> > > > I've been trying to figure out a way to do this and have been
> > > > banging my head
> > > > against the wall.  The end user still want's to edit the site
> > > > with dreamweaver
> > > > but needs the titles to show up in the catalog search.
> > > > When using the ftp interface you lose properties that have
> > > > been set, and you
> > > > have nothing set on new documents.
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > If you want to work really hard, you could create your own kind of
> > > object that parsed the title out of the HTML that gets FTPed up.
> > >
> > > Other than that, I can't think of any better way than getting an
> > editor
> > > that speaks HTTP in a scriptable way or XML-RPC.
> > >
> > > -Michel
> > >
> >
> > A colleague of mine wrote up an object that sucks files of the local
> > filesystem, replaces the start of the doc with  <dtml-var
> > standard_html_header> and the bottom with footer, and nicks whatever is
> > within <TITLE></TITLE> to make the Title property of the DTML-doc..
> > Works rather neatly, but is still in development..
> > I'll talk to him about making it a product if it is stable and someone
> > are interested..   Doesn't help you with ftp, though ..
> 
> AFAIK this is already included with the zope distribution. Look for
> <zope root>/utilities/load_site.py. This only works with the filesystem and
> not for ftp, but you might use it in some way.
> 
> Rik

Works that way. You have to do some small changes in DTMLDocument.py and
in the code provided by Oleg Broytman. You can find it in load_site-py.
I have a working adaption for ftp/http-put that does nearly the same job
as does load_site for files. I am just working on it because I need a
way to tell Zope *not to change* the code in certain cases and because
one thing that does not work is adding the meta-information as an
additional property.
If you're interested, I'll send you that code and a bit of documentation
though both is *extremely* ugly (still learning python ...)

BTW, I tried ob.manage_addProperty and the like from DTMLDocument.py to
add metainformation but the only thing I achieved was adding a property
to the parent folder or different sorts of errors (sorry, I'm writing
out of memory, so no tracebacks:-). Any hints?

Chris
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