Zope

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Zope

• Anureet Saxena 98005006
• Pradeep Kumar 98005031
• Dilys Thomas 98005003

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• Zope is the leading Open Source web application
  server.
• Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation
  and management of dynamic web-based business
  applications such as intranets and portals.

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• Zope is a powerful system for dynamic content
  delivery. It provides
• Web to objects
• Zope provides a unique architecture for mapping
  URLs to object messages.
• Integrated object database.
• The heart of Zope is its integrated object
  database. This powerful object store provides
  seamless access ((through URLs.
• Rich HTML.
• Our documents add rich programming to HTML,
  including iteration, conditional testing,
  variable insertion, HTTP headers, cookies, and
  more.

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• Powerful User Folders.
• Users and passwords can be added to any URL
  level.
• Sophisticated but simple sharing.
• The Zope object system implements a breakthrough
  in object orientation called acquisition. This
  lets you share information along a URL, from
  higher up an organization to down below.

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• Built-in objects.
• Zope automatically provides useful objects for
  website builders. These include DMTL Methods,
  DTML Documents, Images,Folders,UserFolders, and
  MailHost objects. Additionally, there is a
  Control Panel that allows application and
  database management.
• Application integration.
• Zope provides tight integration with other
  products in the Zope line.

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• Cross platform.
• The Zope line has great reach and high
  performance across a number of operating systems
  and Web servers.

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• Zope allows you to create and manage objects
  through the web.
• Zope uses DTML documents for web pages.
• Create Zope objects by choosing them from the
  product add list.
• View Zope objects by clicking the view tab.
• Insert content in web pages with the ltdtml-vargt
  tag.

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• Zope files and documents have a lot in common
  with conventional web pages
• They have names, are arranged in hierarchies, and
  have URLs that correspond to their locations.
• Folders contain other Zope objects.
• The default object for a Folder is named
  index_html.
• The Zope management screens allow you to navigate
  between folders and determine the URLs of
  objects.

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• You can organize Zope object in folders. You can
  create new folders and move objects between
  folders.
• You can move Zope objects around with Cut and
  Paste.
• Folders contain other Zope objects.
• Moving a Zope object between folders changes its
  URL.

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• By consolidating content into components such as
  a common footer you can provide a uniform look
  and feel for your web site.
• Properties contain small pieces of content.
• Use the ltdtml-vargt tag to insert properties into
  web pages.
• standard_html_footer is used as the default Zope
  web page footer.

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• Multiple Zope objects can be combined to form
  complex web pages.
• DTML Methods contain chunks of content.
• Web pages can insert content from DTML Methods.
• You can recover from mistakes with Undo.

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• You can programmatically build web pages with
  groups of objects by looping over them and
  inserting them.
• ltdtml-ingt iterates over a list of objects.
• ltdtml-var sequence-itemgt inserts the current
  object when looping over a list of objects.
• You can get the contents of a folder by calling
  its objectValues method.

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• Images can display themselves and can also
  provide useful information such as size, title,
  and URL.
• Get the contents of a Folder with the
  objectValues method.
• Get the size of an Image with the getSize method.
• Get the URL of an object with the absolute_url
  method.

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• You can use forms to pass information between
  Zope objects.
• You can programmatically create new Zope objects.
• Zope documents can be the action of HTML forms.
• The ltdtml-callgt tag performs an action without
  inserting anything into a web page.
• Create new images in folder with the
  manage_addImage method.

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• You can use cookies to personalize a web page and
  dynamically control the presentation of a Zope
  document.
• You can set cookies with the RESPONSE.setCookie
  method.
• The ltdtml-ifgt tag allows you to test conditions.
• The bobobase_modification_time method returns the
  last modification time of an object.

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• After you create a mail host, you can send mail
  from any Zope document using the ltdtml-sendmailgt
  tag.
• Mail Hosts allow you to send email.
• The ltdtml-sendmailgt tag sends an email message.

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• Zope can work with data from relational databases
  in the same way it treats other Zope objects.
• Database connections tell Zope about relational
  databases.
• ZSQL methods get information out of or into a
  relational database.

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• For more information visit www.zope.org