[Zope] Arguments for choosing Zope

[nitin@borwankar.com]

Database integration with ZSQLMethods especially transparent 
sql-quoting, ability to test SQL queries, ability to auto-generate 
default search forms, ability to browse large results-sets of data, via 
batch-processing capability of  the <dtml-in> tag, will save you hours 
of design/development/debugging time.
Python's ability to handle result sets as sequences and its ease-of-use 
is also a powerful added toolkit "feature".

My use of Zope has mainly been in database driven sites and far less in 
CMS.  I have also been involved with projects using PHP/MySQL, as well 
as Java/JDBC/Servlets and Java/JDBC/EJB's.  For the kind of application 
you are describing, Zope wins by a large margin.
There are a couple of  quirks in DTML methods interfacing to ZSQL 
methods, that you need to be aware of and look for answers in the 
HOW-TO's and the Zope Book.

Another very good reason to use Zope is the excellent support from the 
community on this list.

On the PHP/MySQL side there appear to be a couple of published books on 
building database applications.
But there are no in-depth Zope books focusing only on database 
integration.  This could also be because Zope does make a lot of it
easy.

Nitin Borwankar


Oliver Marx wrote:

>Dear Reader
>
>My company is considering Zope for all new web-applications.
>So far PHP has been our language of choice, but a switch to Zope seems to
>imply a switch to Python.
>
>I must stress that CMS is *not* our main focus.
>
>Our first application would be an Network / Inventory program with SNMP
>support an small clients updating the DB with information about installed
>software and the like.
>
>We could choose Smarty templates/PHP4/Some db abstraction layer/Some DB, but
>I would personally choose Zope. Can you help me argument my case?
>
>Thx for your time
>
>\Oliver
>
>
>
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