[ZPT] What to use for content?

Max Romantschuk max@provico.fi
Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:21:26 +0200


I'm working on a simple site for myself. Essentially I'm aiming towards a 
simple navigation which indexes a bunch of content objects, which all get shown 
through a master template in the site root.

My problem is: What should I use as content objects? To start with the content 
itself will be HTML.

I've figured out how to use page templates for content, but that sort of defies 
the point. I also know I could use CMF or Plone, but both systems are quite 
complex and I want to learn more about Zope before going for a complete content 
management system.

Essentially I'd like things to work like this:

siteroot/index_html <- master template
siteroot/spam/eggs <- content object span in eggs folder

When the user goes to http://mysite/spam/eggs I'd like to have the content 
object rendered through the index_html template. I'd also like to have some 
kind of possibility to devise a script which returns a sensible object when a 
folder is accessed.


The programming bits shouldn't be too much of a problem (I already did a 
recursive tree traversal for my navigation), but I can't seem to figure out 
what to use as content objects. I've looked at Kubes, but the whole folder-as-
content-object approach seems a little confusing to me.


I hope this made any sense... any help is appreciated :)

  Thanks,
Max Romantschuk