[Zope] Any other ColdFusion coders out there?

[Tad Murphy]

I didn't respond to your questions... sorry..

| I'm curious if anyone has a comparison table of Z vs. CF... I'll be
| especially interested to know how it handles http file uploads, file
| management, mail management, <cfhttp>-like functions, and session
| management. I'd also like to stick with CFStudio as my main development
| environment... does regular ftp work with DTML documents?

Regular FTP of .dtml docs works fine with Studio... add .dtml as an
extension to associate with the HTML syntax highlighting in studio. No one,
that I know of, has created a DTML syntax highlighting, but I doubt it would
be that hard. But the HTML syntax highlighting works great.

Many of the functions you talked about, file uploads, email and stuff are
built into Zope. There are how-to's on just about all of the functions you
talked about at http://www.zope.org/

You should really become familiar with Python to take advantage of some of
the hardcore parts of Zope as well as to understand the way expressions
work. This can be frustrating if you don't know the way Python does stuff.

As far as going from CFML to DTML, it's pretty straight forward.

CFIF = DTML-IF
CFLOOP = DTML-IN or DTML-LET

etc.

The one thing that is hard to get used to is Aquisition and just the overall
object nature of Zope.

Hope I helped a little...

- Tad