Welcome to Zope, the premier dynamic platform for servicing content managers.
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, transactional updating, and automatic versioning.
Rich HTML.
Our documents add rich programming to HTML, including iteration, conditional testing, variable insertion, HTTP headers, cookies, and more. Since these rich HTML templates are objects, your users can undo mistakes.
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.
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.
Cross platform.
The Zope line has great reach and high performance across a number of operating systems and Web servers.
The purpose of this document is to aid the content manager in utilizing the Zope application. Since learning is facilitated by action, this guide provides a tutorial format for the content manager to become familiar with Zope web application.
The guide starts with a tutorial to show the dynamics of the Zope product. The user is guided through design and implementation of a web site. The tasks of creating folders, incorporating images (company's logo), and incorporating Document Template Markup Language (DTML) methods into web pages are explored.
This guide addresses the aspects of security, managing roles and managing users. Step by step screen descriptions show the content manager how to allow access to various users and assign them security roles. Manager roles allow the content manager to assign trusted staff members the responsibility to managing a Zope website or a portion of the website, while the anonymous role lets the custormers of these trusted site managers have viewing access to the web site.
This guide provides the content manager with building blocks to create powerful web applications.
