I'm another Zope newbie with a few questions. My appologies if this
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I'm a final year student doing a project to create a course/personal
management system for my university. I
understand there's quite a lot of similar work going on in this field
already.
I aim to create a database to store student information in (using mySQL or
Zope?)
or both. This really depends on what you want and how many users you expect
. Some user management products (Zopish for components) are flexible enough
to accommodate both. ZPatterns and a Zpattern based products (like
LoginManager?) allow you to switch from one implementation to another
halfway. Experimenting with ZPatterns is not a newby thing though... ;-)
which the user (the lecturer) can
add content to (details of grades, etc) via a web browser and use for bulk
manipulation of data... sending email
amongst other things. In addition, I hope to provide a 'wizard' (in a
browser window) to provide facilities for
uploading lecture material, news, etc. to the course web page. Going
through Zope's 'Elvis' tutorial this seems
possible.
this is the realm Zope is suited for par excellence
[Q] Is it possible to present a user with various web forms to input
information (say, a news article with headline
content) that once submitted will be displayed on the page in a suitable
format? I think Zope is capable of
this... is Python/anything required. Are there any examples I can look at?
Yes, many. Try looking at Squishdot for a start. It's a flexible weblog
style product (http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/Squishdot) The Zope
Portal Toolkit may provide much of you want, but it's a project in the
making (http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK)
My own Zope Edu Course Framework (http://www.zope.org/Members/Hoekstra/ZECF)
is a product for publishing courses online. It's intended for people with
few technical web skills. However, this too is under development
I am in the process of reading the online Zope book - if anyone has any
advice for reading material, I would be
grateful to hear it :-)
watch the documentation pages, they will be much improved within a few days
[Q] There are a lot of Zope products available - am I right in thinking
that, say a 'Zope Discussion Board' product,
could be download and integrated into a Zope-powered web-site?
yes.
i.e. Are Zope products 'plug and play' TM? ;-o
many are, some are not.This really depends on the product.Most have
installation instructions. They should tell you more.
hth
Rik
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