[Zope] Zope symbolic links

[Joachim Werner]

But in your example, you won't need symlinks, yes? The two folders are
usable via acquisition anyway ...

Joachim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Graham" <joe@aiobjects.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 2:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Zope] Zope symbolic links


> Okay well what I had in mind was something like this:
> I have a folder to represent website "a" and another folder to represent
> website "b". i have another folder with some useful scripts and yet
another
> folder with some useful graphics / html and it would be nice for the sake
of
> tying things together with vhost_monster and apache to create a "virtual"
> folder inside website "a" and website "b" folder.
> exampe:
> /[root_folder]
>   +/porn_layout_engine
>   +/lots_of_nice_pics_in_sequence
>   +/entertainment_site_a
>     +/->porn_layout_engine
>     +/->lots_of_nice_pics_in_sequence
>   +/entertainment_site_b
>     +/->porn_layout_engine
>     +/->lots_of_nice_pics_in_sequence
>
> So it would seem that response.redirect() in the case of the ZMI would
work,
> but it's not really what I am after.  I am just hoping to "external"
folders
> as if it existed in the child folder.  I could use restricted traverse but
> maybe there is a way to approach this issue in a uniform fashion?  Maybe a
> Zope product that does restricted traverse and can "mimic" the type it
> points to.  If someone can give me some pointers on how to approach this
> then I would not mind giving it a try.
> Okay so you see my dilema?  Well if not at least hopefully the problem
> domain (although fictional) is a little more interesting. :)
>
> Regards,
> Joe
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Eron
> Lloyd
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:58 PM
> To: Joe Graham
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope symbolic links
>
>
> Joe,
>
> The most popular pattern for this is to do a
> <dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.redirect('/myfolder1/mygoodstuff')"> in a DTML
> method or Python script acting as a symlink. To my knowledge there is no
way
> else out of the box to do this (though it would be interesting to
> implement).
>
> HTH,
>
> Eron
>
> On Friday 08 February 2002 04:38 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is there a way to create "symbolic links" in Zope either by editing ZMI
> > code or programmatically?  Let's say I want to create a "pointer" to a
> > folder I have someplace.  Is there a straightforward way to accomplish
> > this?  Here is a very descriptive graphical example (hahaha).
> >
> > /[root folder]
> > /myfolder1
> >   +mygoodstuff
> > /myfolder2
> >   ->link_to_mygoodstuff
> >
> > Thanks
> > -joe
> >
> >
> >
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