Hello, I am a member of MLUG (Montreal LUG), and I have been lurking here for some time now, following the discussions and whatnot.
Anyway, regarding the zope vs php issue. Right now, I am the "current" webmaster for the LUG site (mlug.ca). We are running Zope behing Apache, meaning that zope is acting more or less like a cgi script that intercepts the requests and sends the HTML out to Apache which serves it, I find that this a good thing, since zope's HTTP server is not that secure or production-environment friendly. I like the way Zope works, we looked at php[nuke|post|other solutions] but decided to stick with zope because it really offered a wide variety of "plugins" (Called "Zope Products" by the zope ppl). You can find anything from caledars, discussion forums, polls...etc. And if I can remember correctly, you can use PHP with zope (I'll have to research that one), it can also connect to a wide variety of databases including PostgerSQL, MySQL, Oracle.... Zope provides an extention to HTML (DTML), which is very similar to Apache's SSI (server side includes), which I find very useful. I never learned PHP, and that is why I was biased to Zope since the beginning. There isn't that much to learn in Zope, you can use it to server straight HTML pages if you want, but the users/group scheme it implements is wonderful, you can have different users maintaining different parts of the site, assign users to groups with different security levels and authorizations...etc I know that PHP can do all this, maybe more, maybe in a better way. But I just like zope. If you want to test it without committing any resources to it, you can get a free account at freezope.org. But I really think you should look twice into it, it is a good product. Just my two cents... :) -- Nicholas Accad Redundant book title: "Windows For Dummies" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
