Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management

by Steve Spicklemire and Kevin Friedly

Zope is an open source website creator/management tool. This text provides expert advice on using Zope with a step-by-step how-to for Zope-based systems, such as discussion boards, user authentication, site indexing, and inter-site communication via XML-RPC.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735711100
• ISBN13: 9780735711105
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good starter for people looking towards Zope Zen.

First there are lots of code snippets right in the text,which makes it rather easy to follow things when you don'thave a Zope box next to you. Sometimes they are a bit tooin-depth (like the listing of the SQLLevers in the ZPatternsexample) but most time they are selected wisely.I found a lot of different topics explained (from Zopefor Newbiews, CMS, lots of 3rd Party Products, System Administration,ZEO) which all bring enough knowledge to you, to start working with them right after reading. (Or after downloading from the onlinewebsite that comes with the book.)The Chapter (actually there are 3) about ZPatterns is actuallythe most important to me, because it helped me understandingthis complex topic in a couple of days.This book is a big must-read for all people trying to gain "Zope-Zen"!

almost the kitchen sink

This is a good intro to Zope. If you have a free weekend and want to get to know Zope, this would be a very fine way to do it. Zope is amazingly expandable, and that is one of the things that this book points out & demonstrates with several helpful examples. I was amazed at how much the authors were able to pack into the book & pleased with the way they used products to demonstrate important features of Zope. Because Zope is so expandable and versatile, however, they had to leave some things out. A topic that could have used a little more coverage (or maybe a lot, maybe a seperate book?) is database integration. It's a big topic, though, so I guess it makes sense that it isn't fully fleshed out. Overall, I'd recommend this book to anyone who (like me) is still getting to know Zope. It's very clearly written and well laid out. Kudos to the authors and publisher.db

Building dynamic web sites with Zope made easy!

I have been disapointed by "The book of Zope" and "The Zope book", as they did not help me solve the problems I encountered, or give me a high level vision of how Zope works and how to make the different components work together.This book is different. It contains all new material, and takes you by the hand on how to build a complex web site, making different components and technologies work together. After my frustration with the other books, I couldn't stop reading this one, and I only wish it had been available sooner.If you are interested in Zope, and want to build a non-trivial web site, this is an excellent book to get! It will also tell you how to make sure that your web site can scale to lots of users (external databases) or high traffic.

practical and well written

Zope is an exciting Web Application Server. It has the powerful scripting languagein python; it is Open Source Software with strong commercial supports. In fact, the onlything users and developers often complain about is its deep learning curve, which ismore or less about the lack of good documentation. This book is an excellent sources for developers. It will jumpstart you with a set of essential zope knowledge and products covering serveral major areas of cutting-edge website architechture: events publishing (Calendar Tag), discussion tools and weblog ( ZWiki & Squashdot & CMF & ZUBB & Tracker), web mail (POPMail & IMapClient & ZmailIn ), searching ( ZCatalog ) external access, user management and securitynot only it covers in details of the above area and related products, but theauthors did a fine job of making them so easy to follow and understands. Even someof the most difficult technologies are covered with easy: CMF Tools and ZPatterns,those two had given me days of headache before were finally making sense to me.I have read another book before (The Zope Book by Amos and Michel of Zope fame). Bothare excellent and they actually complement each other very well. If you have read thosewho complainted about The Zope Book's lack of practical contents (such as database access,setting up zope with apache etc.), those issues are all dealt in excellent details herein this book!If you are one of those who have to deal with every aspect of web-related issues, such asserver setup and administration, web architechture design and development, programmers and web content design, then this book is a must have!

quick way to zope

The book gives startingpoints and does save all the wading through zope org tofind a product.After installing some of the examples one is at a level where the amount ofproducts on zope org is less frightening.And it is a real example on how to setup the 'first' site, inclusive notingdeficensies of the choosen setup.