[Zope] questions before I get started

[flynt]

Raymond Norton wrote:
> 
> I had never heard of Zope till last week. I have successfully installed the
> program and am able to bring up the management doc
> 
> I posted a question on another newsgroup stating I needed to produce a
> database for our company equipment that could be edited via a web browser.
> The answer came back to use Zope. Before I spend a bunch of time on this I
> would like to know if this is the right tool , and how in-depth of an
> understanding I will need to produce such a thing. From looking around it
> seems there possibly may be something out there that someone may have
> written already.
> 
> Raymond
> 
Hi Raymond

To get an impression of how it is like to work with Zope and especially
for examples of working with a database (there is a chapter devoted to
this subject with examples) buy yourself the Zope Book or read it online
or download a pdf version from:

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

For experimenting with databases you even have the possibilty to play
with *Gadfly*, a relational test-database which comes with your Zope
distribution. Gadfly does only exist in memory, nothing is written on
disk and so it is a quick and good learning tool. Database adapters are
available then for all major databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle,
Sybase, ODBC and so on.


Greetings

--- Flynt