[Zope] Very, very, very n00bie question

Dennis Allison allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU
Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:49:23 -0700 (PDT)


Let me second Paul's comment.  I'd read the minimal product tutorial and
then begin building products with Max M's "A Simpler Way to Build
Products", (http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/easyProduct).

And, nothing is more educational than reading the code for existing
products.



On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:08:35PM +0100, M?rio Gamito wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Andreas Jung wrote:
> > 
> > >Read the Zope Book first (to be found on zope.org).
> > Already did that.
> 
> Specifically, the 2.6 edition (the one currently marked
> "in progress").  The "Advanced Scripting" chapter
> contains a lot of information about how to get things done
> using zope's Python Script and External Method objects.
> The API Reference section at the end of the book is
> also indispensable.
> 
> If you want to build persistent classes in python, that's
> a bit trickier.  These are called Products. 
> 
> The Zope Developer's Guide (at www.zope.org/Documentation/Books) 
> is the canonical source of information here, though it
> may be rather confusing when just starting out. 
> In that case, Max M's "Minimal" product tutorial is a very 
> good starting place:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_01
> http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_02
>