[ZPT] Newbie question

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 06:34:03 -0500


> I'm very excited about getting to work with ZPT. I'm a Zope newbie (very
> new) but I'm glad to see that the few weaknesses in DTML are being
> ironed out with the arrival of ZPT.

Thanks!  We're very excited, too!

> Anyways, I dont know quite how to get it to work. I have installed
> PageTemplates and TAL in the Products folder of my INSTANCE_HOME. TAL
> shows up in the Product list in Zope - is that enough? How do I start
> using them?

Ehm, TAL should be in the "lib/python" subfolder, not inside the
Products folder.  PageTemplates should be in Products.  Then (after
restarting Zope) Page Template should show up in the menu of object
types you can add -- use that.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)