[Zope] MySQL login

[ghaley@mail.venaca.com]

hi,

someone wrote earlier asking if this can be done.  yes, but only to a
certain extent.  you still have to use the user database that is part of
zope, which requires 4 fields (no more, no less).  once your user has been
authenticated via that, you can pass the data to your mysql database to do
any other stuff you are thinking of doing, logging, data storage, etc.  
one benefit is that your user data can be stored outside of the data.fs
file, and hence keep it fairly lean.

steps you will need to take:

download and install ZMySQLda and the MySQLdb.py packages.  you might need
to hunt around for the latter, as the link from andy dustman's zope users
page was inactive when i last looked for it.  plan to spend quite a chunk
of time to get this done.  (of course, this also presupposes that you have
already downloaded and installed MySQL.  if not, i highly recommend using
the source files and compiling them yourself.  i have had mixed luck with
installing the binaries.  some folks may have had better luck with these.

there has been a few scattered messages on this list about installing
ZMySQLda -- check the archives for these.  i received a very helpful
response over the weekend on an aspect of doing this.

hope this helps.  

good luck.

ciao!
greg.

DBA/web programmer
Venaca, LLC