[Zope-PTK] PTK - Putting it all together

[Paul Erickson]

This is a great question.  I'd like to add a bit to it:

I'd assume that to create a new portal type, you'd inherit from the classes that
"Control_Panel/Products/DemoPortal/Portal" inherited from.  If you look at it's base
classes, they are ZObject, _ZClass_for_DemoPortalBase, and
_ZClass_for_PortalObjectBase.  Since the _ZClass_for* classes aren't in python
anywhere, and they don't show up on the list of classes to inherit from (for a new
ZClass), then where are they defined, and how can they be used?

I can see that they must be derived from DemoPortalBase and PortalObjectBase, but
don't know how.

Thanks,
    -Paul


Dennis Nichols wrote:

> Greetings Zope-PTKists -
>
> I need help understanding how to make this leap:
>
> 1. I can successfully install the PTK (ie, the
>     installed products PTKBase and PTKDemo plus
>     the [no adjective] product DemoPortal) and
>     make a portal with them. No problem.
>
> 2. Although the PTK seems to do much of what
>     I want, I'm going to have to make several
>     mods/additions. It is completely beyond me
>     (at the moment) how it is intended that I
>     take the PTK pieces and make a portal look
>     and act the way that I want.
>
> What I think I know:
> o I should NOT be customizing DemoPortal [per
>    mailing list message from Mike to Philipp Dunkel
>    on 26 Feb 2000]
> o I should make my own equivalent of DemoPortal
>    that uses PTKBase (and PTKDemo?) to do what
>    I need. But how?
>
> I've looked at everything I can find (documents, HowTo's, mailing list
> archives) but there is something missing for me. Maybe I could write a
> HowTo if I could only figure out how PTK is intended to be used.
>
> Note: This is not a question about understanding the smaller pieces such as
> Python, HTML, OO, etc. Rather, it is about a larger understanding. I guess
> my question could be restated as:
>
>     Given that I can successfully install
>     and run Zope/PTK/ZServer, how do I take
>     the PTK and make *my* site from it?
>
> Dazed and Wandering,
>
> --
> Dennis Nichols
> nichols@tradingconnections.com
>
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