[Zope] syndication??

Dan L. Pierson dan@sol.control.com
Thu, 25 May 2000 10:42:21 -0400 (EDT)


Chris Withers writes:
 > Webmaster wrote:
 > > The concept is simple enough, but I just don't know how I could do the same
 > > thing in Zope. I am setting up a system where daily articles can be entered
 > > weeks in advance and will only appear on the web site when the date matches
 > > their "go live date" (easy). But I would also like the article to be emailed
 > > to my distribution email list on its "go live date".
 > 
 > Check out:
 > http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/ZopeEmail/FrontPage
 > http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/ZScheduler
 > 
 > Both would do what you want, one isn't implemented and the other doesn't
 > work.

ROTFL!  There are days when the Zope world gets just a tad frustrating 
aren't there?

In the meantime, the best solution to the problem is probably to
implement the code that does the actual work in Zope and use 
cron + xmlrpc to trigger it to go off at the right time.