[Zope] newbie -- creating a Product

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aidan" <mnstrmr at gmail.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:28 PM
Subject: [Zope] newbie -- creating a Product


> I'm a complete Zope novice. Forgive me if my question is inane.
>
> I need to be able to send an e-mail (following a form submit) with an 
> attachment
> (and I prefer not to use DTML). I can send e-mails withOUT attachments, 
> but
> according to this: 
> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2005-May/159291.html
>
> I need to create
>
>
> "a simple product like this:
>
> EmailTools/__init__.py
> ------------------- contents ---------------------------------
> from AccessControl import allow_module, allow_class, allow_type
> from AccessControl import ModuleSecurityInfo, ClassSecurityInfo
>
> from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
> from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
> from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
> from email.Header import Header
> from MailCrypt import signmail
> from email.Encoders import encode_base64
>
> allow_class(BlockFormatter)
> allow_class(MIMEBase)
> allow_class(MIMEText)
> allow_class(MIMEMultipart)
> allow_class(Header)
> allow_class(signmail)
> allow_class(encode_base64)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "
>
>
>
> This then will allow me to send attachments using
>
> from Products.EmailTools import
> MIMEText,MIMEBase,MIMEMultipart,Header,encode_base64
>
> in the python script. (Without the EmailTools product Zope tells me I am 
> not
> allowed to import MIME*)
>
>
> This is where my question comes in. I have tried to create the product 
> both from
> the ZMI (which does not allow the creation of __init__.py's) and via 
> command
> line (in ~/Products, in lib/Python, everywhere that the sparse and 
> conflicting
> information I have been able to gather tells me). Doing the latter I can
> certainly create the __init__.py but the Product doesn't register with 
> zope.
>
>
> Could someone give a quick walk-through (or point to an up-to-date source) 
> on
> how to create this Product?
>
> (I am running  Zope 2.8.6-final, python 2.4.3, linux2)

For a single task like you have described it may be easier to create a 
simple external method.


Jonathan