The Zope2 Book

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

Contents

• Preface
  • Preface to the 2.12 edition
  • How the Book Is Organized
• Introducing Zope
  • The Static Web Site Dilemma
  • What Is A Web Application?
  • How You Can Benefit From Using An Application Server
  • Why Use Zope Instead of Another Application Server
  • Zope Audiences and What Zope Isn’t
  • Introduction to Zope Maintenance and The Zope Community
  • Zope’s Terms of Use and License
  • Zope History
• Zope Concepts and Architecture
  • Fundamental Zope Concepts
  • Fundamental Zope Components
• Installing and Starting Zope
  • Downloading Zope
  • Installing Zope
  • Starting Zope
  • Using Zope With an Existing Web Server
  • Starting Zope on Windows
  • Starting Zope on UNIX
  • Your Zope Installation
  • Logging In
  • Controlling the Zope Process with the Control Panel
  • Controlling the Zope Process from the Command Line
  • Customizing your Zope instance
  • Troubleshooting and Caveats
• Object Orientation
  • Objects
  • Attributes
  • Methods
  • Messages
  • Classes and Instances
  • Inheritance
  • Object Lifetimes
  • Summary
• Using the Zope Management Interface
  • Introduction
  • How the Zope Management Interface Relates to Objects
  • ZMI Frames
  • Creating Objects
  • Moving and Renaming Objects
  • Transactions and Undoing Mistakes
  • Undo Details and Gotchas
  • Reviewing Change History
  • Using Object Properties
  • Logging Out
• Using Basic Zope Objects
  • Basic Zope Objects
  • Content Objects: Folders, Files, and Images
  • Presentation Objects: Zope Page Templates
  • Logic Objects: Script (Python) Objects
  • Creating a Basic Zope Application Using Page Templates and Scripts
• Acquisition
  • Acquisition vs. Inheritance
  • Acquisition Is about Containment
  • Say What?
  • Providing Services
  • Getting Deeper with Multiple Levels
  • Summary
• Basic Zope Scripting
  • Calling Methods From the Web
  • Using Python-based Scripts
  • Calling ZPT from Scripts
  • Returning Values from Scripts
  • The Zope API
• Using Zope Page Templates
  • HTML Page Templates
  • XML Page Templates
  • Macros
  • Using Templates with Content
• Creating Basic Zope Applications
  • Goals for the Zope Zoo Web Site
  • Beginning with a Folder
  • Designing a Navigable Zoo
  • Modifying a Subsection of the Site
  • Creating a File Library
  • Building “Instance-Space” Applications
  • Instance-Space Applications vs. Python packages
  • The Next Step
• Users and Security
  • Introduction to Zope Security
  • Review: Logging In and Logging Out of the Zope Management Interface
  • Zope’s “Stock” Security Setup
  • Identification and Authentication
  • Authorization, Roles, and Permissions
  • Managing Users
  • Protecting Against Password Snooping
  • Managing Custom Security Policies
  • Security Usage Patterns
  • Different Levels of Access with Roles
  • Performing Security Checks
  • Advanced Security Issues: Ownership and Executable Content
  • Summary
• Advanced Page Templates
  • Advanced TAL
  • Expressions
  • Caching Templates
  • Page Template Utilities
  • Conclusion
• Advanced Zope Scripting
  • Warning
  • Calling Scripts
  • Advanced Acquisition
  • Passing Parameters to Scripts
  • Script Security
  • Python versus Page Templates
  • Remote Scripting and Network Services
  • Conclusion
• Zope Services
  • Access Rule Services
  • Temporary Storage Services
  • Caching Services
  • Outbound Mail Services
  • Error Logging Services
  • Virtual Hosting Services
  • Searching and Indexing Services
  • Sessioning Services
• Basic DTML
  • How DTML Relates to Similar Languages and Templating Facilities
  • When To Use DTML
  • When Not To Use DTML
  • The Difference Between DTML Documents and DTML Methods
  • Details
  • DTML Tag Syntax
  • DTML Tag Names, Targets, and Attributes
  • Creating a “Sandbox” for the Examples in This Chapter
  • Examples of Using DTML for Common Tasks
  • Common DTML Tags
  • Summary
• Advanced DTML
  • How Variables are Looked up
  • DTML Namespaces
  • Rendering Variables
  • Modifying the DTML Namespace
  • DTML Namespace Utility Functions
  • DTML Security
  • Safe Scripting Limits
  • Advanced DTML Tags
  • The Call Tag
  • The Comment Tag
  • The Tree Tag
  • The Return Tag
  • The Sendmail Tag
  • The Mime Tag
  • The Unless Tag
  • Batch Processing With The In Tag
  • Other useful examples
  • Conclusion
• Searching and Categorizing Content
  • Getting started with Mass Cataloging
  • Creating a ZCatalog
  • Configuring ZCatalogs
  • Searching ZCatalogs
  • Searching and Indexing Details
  • Advanced Searching with Records
  • Automatic Cataloging
  • Advanced Catalog Topics
  • Add-On Index Types
  • Conclusion
• Relational Database Connectivity
  • Common Relational Databases
  • Database Adapters
  • Setting up a Database Connection
  • Z SQL Methods
  • Examples of ZSQL Methods
  • Displaying Results from Z SQL Methods
  • Providing Arguments to Z SQL Methods
  • Dynamic SQL Queries
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Further help
  • Summary
• Virtual Hosting Services
  • Virtual Host Monster
  • Arranging for Incoming URLs to be Rewritten
  • Virtual Hosting Considerations for Content classes
  • “Inside-Out” Virtual Hosting
• Session Management
  • Terminology
  • Session Managers
  • Session Manager Components
  • Using Session Data
  • Default Configuration
  • Advanced Development Using Sessioning
  • Configuration and Operation
  • Concepts and Caveats
• Scalability and ZEO
  • What is ZEO?
  • When you should use ZEO
  • Installing and Running ZEO
  • How to Distribute Load
  • Ongoing Maintenance
  • ZEO Caveats
  • Conclusion
• Managing Zope Objects Using External Tools
  • General Caveats
  • FTP and WebDAV
  • Using FTP to Manage Zope Content
  • Other Integration Facilities
• Maintaining Zope
  • Starting Zope Automatically at Boot Time
  • Installing New Products
  • Server Settings
  • Signals (POSIX only)
  • Monitoring
  • Log Files
  • Packing and Backing Up the FileStorage Database
  • Database Recovery Tools
• Appendix A: DTML Reference
  • call: Call a method
  • comment: Comments DTML
  • functions: DTML Functions
  • if: Tests Conditions
  • in: Loops over sequences
  • let: Defines DTML variables
  • mime: Formats data with MIME
  • raise: Raises an exception
  • return: Returns data
  • sendmail: Sends email with SMTP
  • sqlgroup: Formats complex SQL expressions
  • sqltest: Formats SQL condition tests
  • sqlvar: Inserts SQL variables
  • tree: Inserts a tree widget
  • try: Handles exceptions
  • unless: Tests a condition
  • var: Inserts a variable
  • with: Controls DTML variable look up
• Appendix B: API Reference
  • Introduction
  • Sorry
• Appendix C: Zope Page Templates Reference
  • TAL Overview
  • attributes: Replace element attributes
  • condition: Conditionally insert or remove an element
  • content: Replace the content of an element
  • define: Define variables
  • omit-tag: Remove an element, leaving its contents
  • on-error: Handle errors
  • repeat: Repeat an element
  • replace: Replace an element
  • TALES Overview
  • TALES Exists expressions
  • TALES Nocall expressions
  • TALES Not expressions
  • TALES Path expressions
  • TALES Python expressions
  • TALES String expressions
  • METAL Overview
  • define-macro: Define a macro
  • define-slot: Define a macro customization point
  • fill-slot: Customize a macro
  • use-macro: Use a macro
  • ZPT-specific Behaviors
• Appendix D: Zope Resources
  • Zope Web Sites
  • Zope Documentation
  • (Other) Zope Books
  • Mailing Lists
  • Python Information
• Appendix E: DTML Name Lookup Rules
• Contributions