[Zope] newbie...

[Seb Bacon]

Have you read the book?

http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/

And the developer's guide?

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG

And Dieter's 'Chapter 3'?
http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html

and the minimal product howto?
http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_01

These are the best place to start.

There is a dtml-tree tag which may help you do a tree-style navigation.
There is also a Tree implementation for ZPT, in the online ZPT examples you
get when you install ZPT.

If you're not going to access your data from outside Zope, the ZODB is the
best option.  You have to learn to think in a slightly different way,
though, if you're used to PHP + mySQL style development.  But it's worth it,
and not too hard.

seb

----- Original Message -----
From: Maneesh Yadav <yadavm@scripps.edu>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:00 AM
Subject: [Zope] newbie...


> Disclaimer: I think it took me a year to realize what Zope actually
> is....maybe I still don't know :)
>
> Sorry to bother you all, but the Zope environment is so rich with options
> I'm not sure which path I should take.  I am doing a web page for my lab
> and I have Zope up and running fine and I think I understand most of the
> basics....now I need to make a web page that I'd like to do a couple of
> things, keep a little profile of each person in the lab, have a little web
> interface for POs (just a form with some fields that writes stuff to a
> database so everyone can see what items have been ordered) and an overview
> of research.  It's not really dynamic content, but I'd like to use Zope
> for the ordering system and to ease design.
>
> I was going to make a bunch of METAL macros but I *think*
> it'd be smarter to store things like personell profile in a database and
> have a web page that just prints out the contents and the same kinda
> thing for lab POs (purchase orders)...
>
> Would someone mind giving me a general layout for connectivity between
> everything? I know
> Zope has ZopeDB but it is unclear to me as to how to actually make data
> entries and define a database...or do I have to make my database in
> postgresql and connect to the database over zope?
>
> So I know I should use metal for general site layout (nav bars and the
> like), but how can I arrange my two underlying databases and what do I use
> in Zope to connect to them and present the results of the SQL queries?
> Would it be easy to have a tree like nav bar on the side (like Zope?),
> what component does the 'tree' code fit under?
> No need to xplain in too much detail, jbasically just what tool I need to
> do what and I am sure I can follow one of the tutorials...
>
> Many Thanks,
> Maneesh
>
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> Thanks,
> Maneesh
>
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