[Zope] Storing Content

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Strickler [mailto:mstrickler@gmx.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 8:52 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Storing Content
> 
> 
> Hi!
> I'm planning to use Zope on a site that includes news article 
> like content.
> Using PHP or whatever I would set up some relational table 
> structures for
> the content and create display and edit scripts that query 
> the database.
> I've tried this with Zope but was wondering if there is a 
> more Zopeish way
> to do it. (Like creating a subclass of dtmldocument and adding my own
> display and edit methods). If so can you point me to some 
> docs about this?

Creating a ZClass that subclasses document like behavior would be the
'Zopeish' way to do it.  If what you have now works, it might not be
worth changing, Zope can work with all kinds of data models.  One of the
benefits of using objects in the object database is that you can use the
full text searching from Catalog, your relational database might not do
that (or it might, who knows?).

I would check out the ZClass tuturial, it can be found in the
documentation section of the zope site.

-Michel