Re: [Zope] Should I use ZODB or not ?

2000-09-20 Thread Jerome Alet
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jason Cunliffe wrote: I am curious how do you all think LocalFS would perform for such a big multimedia application.? http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS Use Zope for managing meta-data, or mayeb even better Zope + a fast DB tool for the metadata part.

[Zope] FSF about Zope and GPL'ed components

2000-09-20 Thread Nils Kassube
== Forwarded Message == Date: 19.09.2000 16:57 Uhr Received: 19.09.2000 22:58 Uhr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Free Software Foundation) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nils Kassube) Nils Kassube wrote: If I use a GPL'ed component in a complex object oriented environment like Zope, does this mean

[Zope] SQL

2000-09-20 Thread Tom Deprez
Hi, Somebody experience with a parent code table and how to implement it in Zope (with dtml-tree)? Or is a PArent-Code table not SQL-like and is there a better solution? eg : Parent Code Description 0 0 MasterNode 0 1 Child1 of MasterNode 0 2 Child2 of MasterNode 1

Re: [Zope] Folderish DTML Document

2000-09-20 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:19:01 -0700, "Andy McKay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats wrong with a folder that contains an index_html DTMLMethod? Am I totally off my head or is it possible to make a Folderish DTML Document. I had a thread on zope-dev got no response. I know Chris Withers thinks every

[Zope] Newbie Question: File upload in from my own Product

2000-09-20 Thread Dicken, Peer
Hi, I´m new to Zope ;) I´m currently composing a set of products for my website and have a little problem now: I need to make a Product that makes it possible to upload a file, well, basically a tuned "FILE" object. I need to add a description. Is it right to add the FILE object in my ZClass, or

[Zope] PTK, INTSANCE_HOME

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Withers
Richard Moon wrote: Agree completely. I was very disappointed when saw the latest release of the PTK needs a compilation of a C program. That's a real backward step. That's not or shouldn't be the case. By 'C program', I presume you mean the dynpersist module requried my LoginManager: 1.

[Zope] ZDebug is disturbing ;-)

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Withers
Dieter Maurer wrote: Although I am very curious how ZDebug is able to disturb "sendmail". ZDebug also disturbs the PTK ;-) cheers, Chris ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or

[Zope] How do I connect to a db from a PythonMethod?

2000-09-20 Thread Bill Welch
I have this in an ExternalMethod and it works fine: import MySQLdb conn = MySQLdb.Connection(user='', passwd='y', db='zzz') In a PythonMethod, it fails because of the import restriction. What's the easiest way to get around this. I'm not getting anything out of the documentation in

Re: [Zope] ZDebug is disturbing ;-)

2000-09-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris Withers wrote: Dieter Maurer wrote: Although I am very curious how ZDebug is able to disturb "sendmail". ZDebug also disturbs the PTK ;-) Hey, what do you expect? :-) It's another of my experimental "gorilla patches". However, I have found and squashed a few bugs. Make sure

Re: [Zope] ZDebug is disturbing ;-)

2000-09-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Chris Withers wrote: Does that work with the PTK from CVS? I found the one I had broke all the wizards. Also, there was that bit of non-functionality I mentioned on zope-dev... hmmm... lemme go find that post... The problem was with dtml-return. ZDebug broke it. ZDebug

[Zope] A strange difference between DTMLDocument versus DTMLMethod Zope 2.2.2

2000-09-20 Thread cuiod-tec Jens Gelhaar
The following few lines have a different result, when I execute it within an DTMLDocument or DTMLMethod. dtml-var standard_html_header dtml-in "objectItems('Folder')" dtml-var title_or_id /dtml-in dtml-var standard_html_footer The DTMLMethod result looks like it should be, but within a

Re: [Zope] SQL

2000-09-20 Thread Stephan Richter
At 02:14 PM 9/20/00 +0200, Tom Deprez wrote: Hi, Somebody experience with a parent code table and how to implement it in Zope (with dtml-tree)? Or is a PArent-Code table not SQL-like and is there a better solution? No, it is a good solution. I used it many times for threaded message boards.

Re: [Zope] FSF about Zope and GPL'ed components

2000-09-20 Thread Erik Enge
[Nils Kassube] | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Free Software Foundation) [Bradley M. Kuhn] | | It sounds like you are building software that combines Zope and | GPL'ed software to form a single, larger program. In this case, the | whole larger program falls under the terms of the GPL. I don't

[Zope] MetaPublisher now works with Zope 2.2.x

2000-09-20 Thread Mark Pratt
hi, just wanted to announce that we have a new version of MetaPublisher out (1.0.2) which works with Zope 2.2.x. regards, mark -- mark pratt (managing director) [EMAIL PROTECTED] beehive elektronische medien GmbH

Re: [Zope] FSF about Zope and GPL'ed components

2000-09-20 Thread jpenny
Let me ask a more precise question. Zope is not released under GPL. Joe repleases a component which can be used with Zope under GPL license. Zope.org makes it available for download, but in no way incorporates it into their base system. (I.e., it is available for integration by an end user).

Re: [Zope] Folderish DTML Document

2000-09-20 Thread Andy McKay
Andy McKay wrote: Well here's my proclamation. It cant be done... See Toby's comment ;-) If you want to be able to do dtml-var myFolderishThing then you need to subclass Folder and give it a __str__ or __call__ method. I'd love to know what the difference is between these and which one

[Zope] Re: How best to restart Zope?

2000-09-20 Thread Nathalie Bernier
Hi, I've read all answers about the problem and I'd like to know if there's a big difference between : this solution : "Edit your "start" shell script and add -Z to z2.py command line." and this one :" Put this in your 'start' script : -Z /home/local/zope/var/Z2.pid " ? Is the path very

RE: [Zope] A strange difference between DTMLDocument versus DTMLMethod Zope 2.2.2

2000-09-20 Thread Ron Bickers
The is a good example for illustrating the difference in a DTML Method and a DTML Document. With the below code, when "objectItems('Folder')" is called in a DTML Method, the list returned is a list of Folders in the DTML Method's *container* object (often a Folder). In this case, you'll get a

[Zope] Member authentication

2000-09-20 Thread Austin Mayberry
What are suggestions for site member authentication in zope? Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists -

Re: [Zope] zope crashing unexplicably, also not releasing ports

2000-09-20 Thread Dieter Maurer
David McCuskey writes: i've been using zope for about 6 months now and have had this re- occurring problem with it randomly crashing. *worse part about it is that the port isn't released when it crashes*. this means we can't use the same startup script to get zope back up, can't make any

Re: [Zope] flat file db, favorite links, and zope

2000-09-20 Thread Dieter Maurer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a comma delimited file ... ... If so, does one of them allow me to use my existing db file (at least import it)? There will be no problem to import your file. The following external method imports the file and returns the list of its elements. This list

Re: [Zope] A strange difference between DTMLDocument versus DTMLMethod Zope 2.2.2

2000-09-20 Thread Dieter Maurer
cuiod-tec Jens Gelhaar writes: The following few lines have a different result, when I execute it within an DTMLDocument or DTMLMethod. dtml-var standard_html_header dtml-in "objectItems('Folder')" dtml-var title_or_id /dtml-in dtml-var standard_html_footer The DTMLMethod

Re: [Zope] Newbie Question: File upload in from my own Product

2000-09-20 Thread Dieter Maurer
Dicken, Peer writes: I´m new to Zope ;) I´m currently composing a set of products for my website and have a little problem now: I need to make a Product that makes it possible to upload a file, well, basically a tuned "FILE" object. I need to add a description. Is it right to add the

Re: [Zope] Last modified - including contents?

2000-09-20 Thread Dieter Maurer
Marcin Kasperski writes: Two questions related to presenting 'last modified at ...' message on HTML page. 1) I have some pages (for instance my website news page or some indexes) which are dynamically build from another pages (usually via dtml-in - reading elements of some type from

[Zope] Restricting URL access to objects that are not complete web pages

2000-09-20 Thread Stephen Simmons
After reading the Zope lists for a couple of months to struggle up the Zope learning curve, it's time for my first question. I want to serve web pages build up from a database of document components. Zope's object-based subsystems should be completely hidden so that the only objects accessible

[Zope] SV: [Zope] Imagemaps

2000-09-20 Thread peter be
How can I get to make image maps in zope?? If you have already made an imagemap, you then use it like this: dtml-var "myimage_jpg.tag(border=0,usemap=#myimagemapname)" There are so far no imagemap tag creation in Zope but there are plenty of free software for that. The expensive but good

Re: [Zope] Should I use ZODB or not ?

2000-09-20 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Dieter Thanks for your answer and advice.. I am curious how do you all think LocalFS would perform for such a big multimedia application.? http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS In my view, LocalFS is an excellent product. I like it very much. However, I would not upload

Re: [Zope] flat file db, favorite links, and zope

2000-09-20 Thread sean
Dieter, Thanks for the information. I created a test db file and followed the zope external methods how-to, but when I went to create the external method I received a syntax error. Is there something wrong with your syntax, or how I am doing it? (Also, if my db file was a semi-colon

Re: [Zope] Member authentication

2000-09-20 Thread Bill Anderson
Austin Mayberry wrote: What are suggestions for site member authentication in zope? o Define your requirements o Define your environment (What OS/Zope version, etc) o Post a more thorough question, based on the above. :) Bill -- E PLURIBUS LINUX

Re: [Zope] FSF about Zope and GPL'ed components

2000-09-20 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- | Let me ask a more precise question. | | Zope is not released under GPL. | | Joe repleases a component which can be used with Zope under GPL license. | Zope.org makes it available for download, but in no way incorporates | it into their base

[Zope] logging on problem

2000-09-20 Thread Willem Oudyk
Hi, I have installed ZOPE and tried to logon to localhost:8080/manage but I have forgotten the userid/pw. The file (called 'access') shows my name and then something encrypted but I dont know how to use it for logging on. Can anyone help? -

[Zope-dev] Quixote PTL

2000-09-20 Thread Toby Dickenson
Is anyone using Quixote's PTL? http://www.mems-exchange.org/exchange/software/python/quixote/ It looks like it might be useful in the niche that involves too much logic for DTML, and too much joining-strings-together to make python (or PythonMethods) cumbersome. Toby Dickenson [EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] ZODB optimization

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Fulton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering, is the ZODB easily 'fragmented' or .. un-optimized ? If so, are there any tools/functions that will 'unfragment' / optimize it? This really depends on the undelying storage used. Does the 'pack database' in the Administration menu do this?

[Zope-dev] Workflow, Python and Zope

2000-09-20 Thread administrator
Here I just repost a statement from Michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) concerning his workflow product (http://www.vivtek.com/wftk.html, Open-source workflow toolkit). Maybe it's useful for some further developments. Best regards Arno Gross, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Workflow, Python and Zope Posted

Re: [Zope-dev] User objects on 2.2

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Withers
Lalo Martins wrote: (So, to allow Anonymous to call has_permission on itself you have to enable "Access content information" for Anonymous on /acl_users) Hmmm, it might be safer to give Anonymous access to something liek a DTML method which does the work and calls has_permission and give this

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns.... more thoughts about implimentation of a concrete system...

2000-09-20 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Er Hmmm wow. I guess I never thought of attribute providers supplying anything other than instance 'data'. I'll have to try that! Thanks for the idea! This would mean that I could map methods onto my objects from any source I like... hoping that the acqusition machinery won't get confused!

Re: [Zope-dev] HiperDOM xmlc

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Fulton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) If one is really interested in a separation of content and presentation (which I feel is good), then the "standard_html_*" were wrong in the first place. It forces the content author to prepare for presentation. Here's a historical note on this decision. At

[Zope-dev] ZDebug Issues... Round II ;-)

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Withers
Hi Shane, I dug up the mail :-) Shane Hathaway wrote: Chris Withers wrote: Using your sample 'bad' DTML, I got the same but the 'Contains name?' column didn't show up :-( Any ideas? (yes, I was tracking down a security exception, and that column may have been really useful ;-)

[Zope-dev] acl_users

2000-09-20 Thread Bill Anderson
Potentially silly question: Any reason why a 'user folder' object has to be named 'acl_users'. -- E PLURIBUS LINUX ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! **

Re: [Zope-dev] acl_users

2000-09-20 Thread Bill Anderson
"Phillip J. Eby" wrote: At 07:55 PM 9/20/00 -0600, Bill Anderson wrote: Potentially silly question: Any reason why a 'user folder' object has to be named 'acl_users'. Interesting. A quick search of the Zope source turns up only 9 references to 'acl_users', found in only 4 source