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The Zope2 Book¶

Welcome to The Zope Book. This book is designed to introduce you to Zope2, an open-source web application server.

Contents¶

  • 1. Preface
    • 1.1. Preface to the 2.12 edition
    • 1.2. How the Book Is Organized
  • 2. Introducing Zope
    • 2.1. The Static Web Site Dilemma
    • 2.2. What Is A Web Application?
    • 2.3. How You Can Benefit From Using An Application Server
    • 2.4. Why Use Zope Instead of Another Application Server
    • 2.5. Zope Audiences and What Zope Isn’t
    • 2.6. Introduction to Zope Maintenance and The Zope Community
    • 2.7. Zope’s Terms of Use and License
    • 2.8. Zope History
  • 3. Zope Concepts and Architecture
    • 3.1. Fundamental Zope Concepts
    • 3.2. Fundamental Zope Components
  • 4. Installing and Starting Zope
    • 4.1. Downloading Zope
    • 4.2. Installing Zope
    • 4.3. Starting Zope
    • 4.4. Using Zope With an Existing Web Server
    • 4.5. Starting Zope on Windows
    • 4.6. Starting Zope on UNIX
    • 4.7. Your Zope Installation
    • 4.8. Logging In
    • 4.9. Controlling the Zope Process with the Control Panel
    • 4.10. Controlling the Zope Process from the Command Line
    • 4.11. Customizing your Zope instance
    • 4.12. Troubleshooting and Caveats
  • 5. Object Orientation
    • 5.1. Objects
    • 5.2. Attributes
    • 5.3. Methods
    • 5.4. Messages
    • 5.5. Classes and Instances
    • 5.6. Inheritance
    • 5.7. Object Lifetimes
    • 5.8. Summary
  • 6. Using the Zope Management Interface
    • 6.1. Introduction
    • 6.2. How the Zope Management Interface Relates to Objects
    • 6.3. ZMI Frames
    • 6.4. Creating Objects
    • 6.5. Moving and Renaming Objects
    • 6.6. Transactions and Undoing Mistakes
    • 6.7. Undo Details and Gotchas
    • 6.8. Reviewing Change History
    • 6.9. Using Object Properties
    • 6.10. Logging Out
  • 7. Using Basic Zope Objects
    • 7.1. Basic Zope Objects
    • 7.2. Content Objects: Folders, Files, and Images
    • 7.3. Presentation Objects: Zope Page Templates
    • 7.4. Logic Objects: Script (Python) Objects and External Methods
    • 7.5. Creating a Basic Zope Application Using Page Templates and Scripts
  • 8. Acquisition
    • 8.1. Acquisition vs. Inheritance
    • 8.2. Acquisition Is about Containment
    • 8.3. Say What?
    • 8.4. Providing Services
    • 8.5. Getting Deeper with Multiple Levels
    • 8.6. Summary
  • 9. Basic Zope Scripting
    • 9.1. Calling Methods From the Web
    • 9.2. Using Python-based Scripts
    • 9.3. Calling ZPT from Scripts
    • 9.4. Returning Values from Scripts
    • 9.5. The Zope API
  • 10. Using Zope Page Templates
    • 10.1. HTML Page Templates
    • 10.2. XML Page Templates
    • 10.3. Macros
    • 10.4. Using Templates with Content
  • 11. Creating Basic Zope Applications
    • 11.1. Goals for the Zope Zoo Web Site
    • 11.2. Beginning with a Folder
    • 11.3. Designing a Navigable Zoo
    • 11.4. Modifying a Subsection of the Site
    • 11.5. Creating a File Library
    • 11.6. Building “Instance-Space” Applications
    • 11.7. Instance-Space Applications vs. Python packages
    • 11.8. The Next Step
  • 12. Users and Security
    • 12.1. Introduction to Zope Security
    • 12.2. Review: Logging In and Logging Out of the Zope Management Interface
    • 12.3. Zope’s “Stock” Security Setup
    • 12.4. Identification and Authentication
    • 12.5. Authorization, Roles, and Permissions
    • 12.6. Managing Users
    • 12.7. Protecting Against Password Snooping
    • 12.8. Managing Custom Security Policies
    • 12.9. Security Usage Patterns
    • 12.10. Different Levels of Access with Roles
    • 12.11. Performing Security Checks
    • 12.12. Advanced Security Issues: Ownership and Executable Content
    • 12.13. Summary
  • 13. Advanced Page Templates
    • 13.1. Advanced TAL
    • 13.2. Expressions
    • 13.3. Caching Templates
    • 13.4. Page Template Utilities
    • 13.5. Conclusion
  • 14. Advanced Zope Scripting
    • 14.1. Warning
    • 14.2. Calling Scripts
    • 14.3. Using External Methods
    • 14.4. Advanced Acquisition
    • 14.5. Passing Parameters to Scripts
    • 14.6. Script Security
    • 14.7. Python versus Page Templates
    • 14.8. Remote Scripting and Network Services
    • 14.9. Conclusion
  • 15. Zope Services
    • 15.1. Access Rule Services
    • 15.2. Temporary Storage Services
    • 15.3. Caching Services
    • 15.4. Outbound Mail Services
    • 15.5. Error Logging Services
    • 15.6. Virtual Hosting Services
    • 15.7. Searching and Indexing Services
    • 15.8. Sessioning Services
  • 16. Basic DTML
    • 16.1. How DTML Relates to Similar Languages and Templating Facilities
    • 16.2. When To Use DTML
    • 16.3. When Not To Use DTML
    • 16.4. The Difference Between DTML Documents and DTML Methods
    • 16.5. Details
    • 16.6. DTML Tag Syntax
    • 16.7. DTML Tag Names, Targets, and Attributes
    • 16.8. Creating a “Sandbox” for the Examples in This Chapter
    • 16.9. Examples of Using DTML for Common Tasks
    • 16.10. Common DTML Tags
    • 16.11. Summary
  • 17. Advanced DTML
    • 17.1. How Variables are Looked up
    • 17.2. DTML Namespaces
    • 17.3. Rendering Variables
    • 17.4. Modifying the DTML Namespace
    • 17.5. DTML Namespace Utility Functions
    • 17.6. DTML Security
    • 17.7. Safe Scripting Limits
    • 17.8. Advanced DTML Tags
    • 17.9. The Call Tag
    • 17.10. The Comment Tag
    • 17.11. The Tree Tag
    • 17.12. The Return Tag
    • 17.13. The Sendmail Tag
    • 17.14. The Mime Tag
    • 17.15. The Unless Tag
    • 17.16. Batch Processing With The In Tag
    • 17.17. Other useful examples
    • 17.18. Conclusion
  • 18. Searching and Categorizing Content
    • 18.1. Getting started with Mass Cataloging
    • 18.2. Creating a ZCatalog
    • 18.3. Configuring ZCatalogs
    • 18.4. Searching ZCatalogs
    • 18.5. Searching and Indexing Details
    • 18.6. Advanced Searching with Records
    • 18.7. Automatic Cataloging
    • 18.8. Advanced Catalog Topics
    • 18.9. Add-On Index Types
    • 18.10. Conclusion
  • 19. Relational Database Connectivity
    • 19.1. Common Relational Databases
    • 19.2. Database Adapters
    • 19.3. Setting up a Database Connection
    • 19.4. Z SQL Methods
    • 19.5. Examples of ZSQL Methods
    • 19.6. Displaying Results from Z SQL Methods
    • 19.7. Providing Arguments to Z SQL Methods
    • 19.8. Dynamic SQL Queries
    • 19.9. Advanced Techniques
    • 19.10. Further help
    • 19.11. Summary
  • 20. Virtual Hosting Services
    • 20.1. Virtual Host Monster
    • 20.2. Arranging for Incoming URLs to be Rewritten
    • 20.3. Virtual Hosting Considerations for Content classes
    • 20.4. “Inside-Out” Virtual Hosting
  • 21. Session Management
    • 21.1. Terminology
    • 21.2. Session Managers
    • 21.3. Session Manager Components
    • 21.4. Using Session Data
    • 21.5. Default Configuration
    • 21.6. Advanced Development Using Sessioning
    • 21.7. Configuration and Operation
    • 21.8. Concepts and Caveats
  • 22. Scalability and ZEO
    • 22.1. What is ZEO?
    • 22.2. When you should use ZEO
    • 22.3. Installing and Running ZEO
    • 22.4. How to Distribute Load
    • 22.5. Ongoing Maintenance
    • 22.6. ZEO Caveats
    • 22.7. Conclusion
  • 23. Managing Zope Objects Using External Tools
    • 23.1. General Caveats
    • 23.2. FTP and WebDAV
    • 23.3. Using FTP to Manage Zope Content
    • 23.4. Other Integration Facilities
  • 24. Maintaining Zope
    • 24.1. Starting Zope Automatically at Boot Time
    • 24.2. Installing New Products
    • 24.3. Server Settings
    • 24.4. Signals (POSIX only)
    • 24.5. Monitoring
    • 24.6. Log Files
    • 24.7. Packing and Backing Up the FileStorage Database
    • 24.8. Database Recovery Tools
  • 25. Appendix A: DTML Reference
    • 25.1. call: Call a method
    • 25.2. comment: Comments DTML
    • 25.3. functions: DTML Functions
    • 25.4. if: Tests Conditions
    • 25.5. in: Loops over sequences
    • 25.6. let: Defines DTML variables
    • 25.7. mime: Formats data with MIME
    • 25.8. raise: Raises an exception
    • 25.9. return: Returns data
    • 25.10. sendmail: Sends email with SMTP
    • 25.11. sqlgroup: Formats complex SQL expressions
    • 25.12. sqltest: Formats SQL condition tests
    • 25.13. sqlvar: Inserts SQL variables
    • 25.14. tree: Inserts a tree widget
    • 25.15. try: Handles exceptions
    • 25.16. unless: Tests a condition
    • 25.17. var: Inserts a variable
    • 25.18. with: Controls DTML variable look up
  • 26. Appendix B: API Reference
    • 26.1. Introduction
    • 26.2. Sorry
  • 27. Appendix C: Zope Page Templates Reference
    • 27.1. TAL Overview
    • 27.2. attributes: Replace element attributes
    • 27.3. condition: Conditionally insert or remove an element
    • 27.4. content: Replace the content of an element
    • 27.5. define: Define variables
    • 27.6. omit-tag: Remove an element, leaving its contents
    • 27.7. on-error: Handle errors
    • 27.8. repeat: Repeat an element
    • 27.9. replace: Replace an element
    • 27.10. TALES Overview
    • 27.11. TALES Exists expressions
    • 27.12. TALES Nocall expressions
    • 27.13. TALES Not expressions
    • 27.14. TALES Path expressions
    • 27.15. TALES Python expressions
    • 27.16. TALES String expressions
    • 27.17. METAL Overview
    • 27.18. define-macro: Define a macro
    • 27.19. define-slot: Define a macro customization point
    • 27.20. fill-slot: Customize a macro
    • 27.21. use-macro: Use a macro
    • 27.22. ZPT-specific Behaviors
  • 28. Appendix D: Zope Resources
    • 28.1. Zope Web Sites
    • 28.2. Zope Documentation
    • 28.3. (Other) Zope Books
    • 28.4. Mailing Lists
    • 28.5. Python Information
  • 29. Appendix E: DTML Name Lookup Rules
  • 30. Contributions

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