[Zope] Any other ColdFusion coders out there?
ron@hksi.net
ron@humankindsystems.com
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 17:51:02 -0500
Thanks, Tad! That does help. One more newbie questioin: how does the
scalability of Z vs. CF compare?
Ron
>
> 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
>
>