On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:10:39PM +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Ken Guest schrieb: > > Hi, > > I've two relatively small web applications that are currently implemented in > > PHP and needed to be migrated to python and most likely zope afterwards as > > we're getting a third-party Zope powered CMS later this year. > > > > There isn't an immediate need for them to be developed as zope > > modules/extensions so I was wondering what the best approach might me - > > especially as they'd be deployed in the middle of a PHP driven website. > > > > Would I be best off to enable mod_python inside apache for the moment, > > writing > > good modular reusable code that may|should need minimum tweaks for when our > > Zope CMS comes on-line or should I go the full way and design the web apps > > for > > Zope from day zero? > > If you want ZOPE, the only way is to use it right from the start. There > is not much you can write as "good modular reusable code", as ZOPE > imposes quite a few constraints on the way things _have_ to happen. That > isn't a bad thing! Its just that with ZOPE, you've got to grok what it > is about to use it, and much things are different from the simple > one-page-one-script-stuff you ususally come up with in PHP. >
Well it'll be zope/plone to be more exact - good to know I should start off with zope sooner rather than later, thanks Diez. k. -- Ken Guest Mobile: +353 86 8252 141 http://blogs.linux.ie/kenguest/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list