[Zope] Zope Cookbook????

[Vivek Krishna]

Hi ,
  I am considering using zope to build a sample applicaiton like a
guestbook and shopping cart
kind of application. I really looked for all documentation but couldnt
find a cookbook which does a step by step introduction to ahceive
this.Is there some resource like this? Besides I am
a new to python.Is python scripting required to build something as
simple as a guestbook? Or would you recommend me to use something like
PHP/Perl. I installed zope and read some docs but all I find is
objects,aquisition and details about ZMI.
If someone could help or point to some resources  or probably say that
Zope is not needed for this I would be grateful.
Thanks
vivek