[Zope] Inheritance and first post. :)

[Dieter Maurer]

Welcome!

Nat Harari writes:
 > First question: Inheritance.
 > 
 > I'm doing the tutorial in the Zope Book that I downloaded a few weeks ago and printed out. It's the ZopeZoo site that I'm creating
 > right now. For some reason, my standard_html_header is not functioning the way it is supposed to. When you go down into the Reptiles
 > folder layer, the standard_html_header is not being read. It is apparently looking for the one in the root folder instead of the
 > ZopeZoo folder (which is right above the layer of the Reptiles folder). You know the one I mean? The header that they have you
 > create with the navigation system on it. It works for ZopeZoo/index_html but not ZopeZoo/Reptiles/index_html.
That's probably an instance of

       "Containment before Context"

a property of Acquisition that confuses many of its users.

You may look at

  URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html

to find out more.

Probably, you will also find something in the "Zope Developer Guide".



Dieter