Fwd: [Zope] Can Zope Do....?

[Alan Snyder]

Holy moly! I'm installing zope onto my debian laptop right now. I
can't wait to play with it. My only question is should I attempt to
get the latest and greatest zope (X3, I believe) and latest and
greatest python (2.4), or stick with the standard apt-get stuff.

Thanks again - I'm sure I'll have more questions as I delve deeper and
discover more stuff.




On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:40:59 +1100, Andrew Milton <akm at theinternet.com.au> wrote:
> +-------[ Alan Snyder ]----------------------
> |
> | I'm going to research more into this, but from what I've read here,
> | Zope is an application server and framework. Now, with that said, just
> | installing Zope, in and of itself, doesn't give you anything that you
> | could tinker with say in apache (like Plone).
>
> That's not entirely true, depending on what you mean by tinker.
>
> Zope has through-the-web development available as well, so you can prototype
> applications or play with concepts from your browser, without doing python
> product development as it were.
>
> [snip]
>
> I do need CMS functions in the apps I'll be developing
> | (file upload/download, Wiki, etc.), so if I could get a consistent
> | look and feel from Plone and still have the power and functionality of
> | Zope, that would be good. Is this likely / possible, or, am I totally
> | off here?
>
> You don't need Plone to get consistent look and feel. Zope comes with two
> templating systems , DTML, and ZPT (Zope Page Templates).
>
> ZPT is quite easy to use to get a consistent look and feel. You design one
> master template that defines your structure (by defining content slots),
> includes your CSS, and javascript. Your remaining templates reference this
> main template and override or fill in slots from the master template.
>
> This is exactly what Plone does, using the standard Zope items. Plone just
> provides a lot more "Portal" type functionality.
>
> --
> Andrew Milton
> akm at theinternet.com.au
>