[Zope] How/Where to store user specific data?

[Loren Stafford]

You could also create a Users folder with a subfolder for each user. You
would access the user's folder in HTML thus:

<dtml-with Users>
<dtml-with ThisUser>
...read or write properties or user objects...
</dtml-with>
</dtml-with>

You can use properties of the user folder for simple user-specific data. Or
you have the flexibility to add other objects to the user's folder for
unlimited expansion of the application; for example, a locator object, a
"results of Test A" object, a "results of Test B" object.

And you could create methods (DTML methods or otherwise) in the Users folder
that would provide a common interface to all of the data in all of the
users' subfolders.

-- Loren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Thomas Guettler
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 15:22
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] How/Where to store user specific data?
>
>
> How (Where) can I store user specific data?
>
> I am developing a product in python (Multible Choice Test) and want to
> store some data for every user (Results of the tests).
>
> I see two ways:
>  Add data to the user object in acl_users
>   or
>  Store data in a hash with the user-id as key
>
> What do you think?
>
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> Open Source Software Solutions
> Thomas Guettler <thomas@thomas-guettler.de>
> http://www.thomas-guettler.de
>
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