[Zope-PTK] General advice for a Web directory

[Martin Sevigny]

Dear PTK specialists,

I'm currently evaluating the feasibility of building a Web directory using Zope Portal Toolkit. I've installed it, tests a little bit, but I still have questions.

Here is what I want to do:

- Build a Yahoo-like directory of Web resources, each resource being identifier with it's URL, a title, a description, and a few other fields such as language used and type of site

- Let users search for Web resources in the directory

- Let different people manage different parts of the directory

After a few hours playing with the toolkit, I've found that PTK could help me build this directory. It would take care of the user authentification, the submission of new Web sites, the search engine, and a few other things.

For now, I have these questions:

- For the topics and subtopics, I need to use ZTopic objects, right? Is there any way (without too much effort) to have support for "see also" topics inside a topic? I only managed to get strict hierarchies...

- How do I place a PTK object, like a document or a link, within a ZTopic topic, using the regular PTK interface, for instance when a reviewer decides to publish the object?

- May I define my own portal objects, or at least modify the existing ones? For example, may I add a "language" field to the link object?

- What about internationalization? My directory would not be in English, do I have to translate all strings in the source code and DTML documents? What do I do when there are updates?

Thank's for any advice. I like Zope, and I hope I will be able to use the PTK without too much effort for my project.

Have a nice day,

Martin Sévigny