Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone

2000-06-06 Thread Bill Anderson

Ian Sparks wrote:
 
 I have the source here, perhaps you can point me to where I should be
 looking - the PTK is reasonably large.
 
 AFAICS the PTK uses a folder called Members and adds folders under that for
 each registered user :
 
 Members
Fred
   FredContent1
   FredContent2
   FredContent3
Jim
   JimsContent
 
 Nothing database-driven about that.


See below...

...

 I want to produce a home-page on my site using a URL like :
 
 http://www.zope.org/Members/Fred
 
 
 I'm a little confused as to how I would go about this in a dynamic way
 where
 I would pull the contents of the page out of a database.
 
 A non-database way would be to :
 
 /Members (folder)
 /Fred (sub-folder or Document)
 /Jim (sub-folder or Document)
 /Jane (sub-folder or Document)
 
 But I want to be able to generate the /Members/Fred page dynamically.


What exactly would you generate this off of?

I would guess from data in a databse (SQL)?

If so, you could do a select statement to ge tthe userlist.
You would then make a 'template' that built a page from the data in a
database, where username==username (ie Fred).

But, you could be asking for something completely different. ;)

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Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone

2000-06-06 Thread Ian Sparks

Bill,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I would be getting the data from a SQL statement.

Let me explain what I am trying to achieve.

I want to structure my site like this :

http://mysite.com/Members/username

so if someone comes to my site with the URL :

mysite.com/Members/Ian

They would see the Members page for "Ian" (we'll ignore permissions and
security for now).

As I have said before, one way of doing this is to have a Zope structure :

/Members
   /Ian
   /Jim
   /Jane

Where Members is a folder, Ian,Jim and Jane are Sub-folders of Members.

But I don't want to do this. What if I add a million users?  Then I end up
with a million member folders which is difficult to manage from Zope. I want
to store my users in a database.

I have no problem creating a DTML method which calls a SQLMethod passing a
parameter "username=Ian" to pull out the data and construct the HTML for
delivery.

The problem I have is how to construct my site. What I want is something
like :

/Members
   /*

Where * is a method which catches the rest of the url (/Ian) and does all
the necessary processing to return the formatted user page for Ian.

I know I'm missing the Zope Zen of this because it must be easy to do in
such a well thought-out product.

The thought I had was that "Members" could be a SQL method which takes
"username" as a parameter, Ian then is passed in as that Username and the
necessary data is pulled from the DB. This is fine except that I still need
some other method to render the HTML page for delivery to the user and this
would extend my url to : www.mysite.com/Members/Ian/rendermethod.

The other problem with this is that it clutters the root with the Members
SQLMethod and the rendermethod DTML document. I might start adding more
URL's like : www.mysite.com/Members/Ian/preferences or
www.mysite.com/Members/Ian/pastposts and the "preferences" and "pastposts"
documents would end up in the root too. All these things belong in a Members
folder, not at the root.

I'm missing something important, I'd appreciate any enlightenment you could
bring to this.

- Ian.










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From: "Bill Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Ian Sparks" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone


Ian Sparks wrote:

 I have the source here, perhaps you can point me to where I should be
 looking - the PTK is reasonably large.

 AFAICS the PTK uses a folder called Members and adds folders under that
for
 each registered user :

 Members
Fred
   FredContent1
   FredContent2
   FredContent3
Jim
   JimsContent

 Nothing database-driven about that.


See below...

...

 I want to produce a home-page on my site using a URL like :
 
 http://www.zope.org/Members/Fred
 
 
 I'm a little confused as to how I would go about this in a dynamic way
 where
 I would pull the contents of the page out of a database.
 
 A non-database way would be to :
 
 /Members (folder)
 /Fred (sub-folder or Document)
 /Jim (sub-folder or Document)
 /Jane (sub-folder or Document)
 
 But I want to be able to generate the /Members/Fred page dynamically.


What exactly would you generate this off of?

I would guess from data in a databse (SQL)?

If so, you could do a select statement to ge tthe userlist.
You would then make a 'template' that built a page from the data in a
database, where username==username (ie Fred).

But, you could be asking for something completely different. ;)

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Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone

2000-06-06 Thread J. Atwood

Ian,

Make "Members"  a DTML Method and inside that method you call a ZSQL 
Method (made previously) that takes the parameter of 'userid=name'. 
Store the name of the member in the cookie and when the visit 
/members/ or /members/name it gets all the data from the SQL Database 
and publishes it any way you want.

Build any other functionality in the "Members" DTML Method to allow 
for /members/name/preferences or any other parameter you want to pass 
it. Just pick it up in an DTML-IF statement and do the rest.

Good luck.

J



The thought I had was that "Members" could be a SQL method which takes
"username" as a parameter, Ian then is passed in as that Username and the
necessary data is pulled from the DB. This is fine except that I still need
some other method to render the HTML page for delivery to the user and this
would extend my url to : www.mysite.com/Members/Ian/rendermethod.

The other problem with this is that it clutters the root with the Members
SQLMethod and the rendermethod DTML document. I might start adding more
URL's like : www.mysite.com/Members/Ian/preferences or
www.mysite.com/Members/Ian/pastposts and the "preferences" and "pastposts"
documents would end up in the root too. All these things belong in a Members
folder, not at the root.

I'm missing something important, I'd appreciate any enlightenment you could
bring to this.

- Ian.

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[Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone

2000-06-05 Thread Ian Sparks

Hi,

I want to produce a home-page on my site using a URL like :

http://www.zope.org/Members/Fred


I'm a little confused as to how I would go about this in a dynamic way where
I would pull the contents of the page out of a database.

A non-database way would be to :

/Members (folder)
/Fred (sub-folder or Document)
/Jim (sub-folder or Document)
/Jane (sub-folder or Document)

But I want to be able to generate the /Members/Fred page dynamically.

The SQLMethod part I can do, its the structuring of the objects in the
heriarchy which baffles me.

Ideally I'd like to have a "Members" folder in /, as this reduces the
clutter in /, but then how do I pick up the "Fred" part of the URL once I
have traversed into the members folder and apply it as part of a SQLMethod?


- Ian Sparks.











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Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone

2000-06-05 Thread Philipp Dunkel

At 17:23 05.06.00 +0100, Ian Sparks wrote:
Hi,

I want to produce a home-page on my site using a URL like :

http://www.zope.org/Members/Fred


I'm a little confused as to how I would go about this in a dynamic way where
I would pull the contents of the page out of a database.

A non-database way would be to :

/Members (folder)
/Fred (sub-folder or Document)
/Jim (sub-folder or Document)
/Jane (sub-folder or Document)

But I want to be able to generate the /Members/Fred page dynamically.

The SQLMethod part I can do, its the structuring of the objects in the
heriarchy which baffles me.

Ideally I'd like to have a "Members" folder in /, as this reduces the
clutter in /, but then how do I pick up the "Fred" part of the URL once I
have traversed into the members folder and apply it as part of a SQLMethod?


- Ian Sparks.

You can find a solution in the PTK-Source

* Philipp DunkelICQ# 60149094  *
* zReal Productions*
* meet me at DALNet chan #phidu*




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Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone

2000-06-05 Thread Ian Sparks

I have the source here, perhaps you can point me to where I should be
looking - the PTK is reasonably large.

AFAICS the PTK uses a folder called Members and adds folders under that for
each registered user :

Members
   Fred
  FredContent1
  FredContent2
  FredContent3
   Jim
  JimsContent

Nothing database-driven about that.

Thanks for your help.

- Ian.



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From: "Philipp Dunkel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Ian Sparks" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] www.mysite.com/Members/someone


At 17:23 05.06.00 +0100, Ian Sparks wrote:
Hi,

I want to produce a home-page on my site using a URL like :

http://www.zope.org/Members/Fred


I'm a little confused as to how I would go about this in a dynamic way
where
I would pull the contents of the page out of a database.

A non-database way would be to :

/Members (folder)
/Fred (sub-folder or Document)
/Jim (sub-folder or Document)
/Jane (sub-folder or Document)

But I want to be able to generate the /Members/Fred page dynamically.

The SQLMethod part I can do, its the structuring of the objects in the
heriarchy which baffles me.

Ideally I'd like to have a "Members" folder in /, as this reduces the
clutter in /, but then how do I pick up the "Fred" part of the URL once I
have traversed into the members folder and apply it as part of a SQLMethod?


- Ian Sparks.

You can find a solution in the PTK-Source

* Philipp Dunkel ICQ# 60149094  *
* zReal Productions*
* meet me at DALNet chan #phidu*







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