[Zope] Re: Zope in intranet - the cool apps?

[Simon Michael]

Hi Mark, thanks for your post.

Mark Bucciarelli <mark@easymailings.com> writes:
> I didn't find it that hard to integrate zwiki into an otherwise totally
> zpt site.  The hard part as far as moving to zpt is to pull all the layout
> code (dtml statements) from the python.  For example, all the '<a href'
> stuff.

I'm not sure what you mean here. What did you do with zwiki, exactly ?

> I think it would be better to have the python process a DTML document, and
> return some data structure (list or a dictionary) that the zpt template
> lays out.

Yes, I became a little clearer on this yesterday. Here's how I think zwiki
could approach ZPTs (can I call them Page Templates, or are they Zope
Presentation Templates ?):

1. allow the "forms" - editform, subscribeform & backlinks - to be defined
   as ZPTs. Would mean changing editform(), backlinks() & subscribeform().

2. allow the main page layout to be defined as a ZPT
   ("standard_wiki_page", "page_layout", "mainview" ?). Would mean
   changing (or adding new) render_ methods. Currently they all render and
   pre/append the DTML methods to the rendered page content as their final
   step. Instead they would now render the ZPT, passing the rendered page
   data into it's namespace for inclusion (right ?).

At this stage, 

- you should be able to fully control the wiki's appearance by editing
these four ZPTs. 

- ZWikiPage still inherits from DTML Document, and dtml-enabled wikis and
pages such as zwikidotorg's default UserOptions, RecentChanges and
SearchPage still execute embedded dtml.

- the ZPT provides an additional dynamic parsing stage for the page, where
  you can do site-wide, admin controlled stuff - sounds useful

3. implement UserOptions/RecentChanges/SearchPage in some other way than
   DTML, allowing you to purge DTML entirely from your wiki. For those who
   want that. :) (Personally, I want embedded restricted python).

4. make it so that each zwiki page is a ZPT. This should make it easier to
   edit a page with WYSIWYG tools. After an edit, zwiki would extract the
   essential body (eg strip the header & footer) for inclusion in the
   standard site ZPT.

-Simon