James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > I am interested in setting up a modest invoicing system for some > consulting I am doing. I like the idea of managing this on the web and > creating invoices and printing them from a browser. However, I'm not > really sure where to start. I've played with some CMS applications, but > they seem more for blogging (mamba, wordpress, etc.). Ideally, I would > like to interface with mySQL (or whatever the favorite web-flavor > database app is these days). I would like to be able to use my python > skills. > > I confident that if I set out to write this from scatch, I will be > seriously re-inventing the wheel, perhaps several times over. > > So, my question is, does anyone know of a book and/or some kind of > framework that would make the best sense for what I am describing here? > I've heard of Zope, but I would like to make sure its appropriate for > the job before I spend 2 or 3 days getting acquainted with it. I'm adept > at HTML, python, CSS, python-CGI, and interfacing with mySQL through > DBI. I'm sure I could get something to work with these skills, but I > want to minimize wheel re-invention as much as possible. > > Basically, I want a jump start on data-base oriented web development > with a focus on applying my python skills. > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > James > > -- > James Stroud > UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics > Box 951570 > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > http://www.jamesstroud.com/
James, Karrigell is serving me well at the moment for a low-traffic intranet/library-cataloguing site. There are different ways of creating your app (html inside python, python inside html, or Karrigell services) - personally, I use services exclusively, so: library/books.ks/add, library/books.ks/edit, library/books.ks/delete library/authors.ks/add, library/authors.ks/edit, library/authors.ks/delete etc. ( I think - to the best of my knowledge - these would equate to 'controllers' in other frameworks - BookController, AuthorController... ) Karrigell will also serve static pages with a simple Include( 'mypage.html' ) I've recently set up 'lighttpd' webserver ( http://www.lighttpd.net ), and this proxies easily to Karrigell with the following in 'lighttpd.conf': server.modules = ( "mod_proxy" ) static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".ks" ) $HTTP["url"] =~ "\.ks" { proxy.server = ( "" => (( host => "127.0.0.1", port => 8081 )) ) } ie. "if there is a '.ks' in the url, ask Karrigell, otherwise it's static so serve it yourself" I'm also using 'leonardo' (http://leonardo.pyworks.org) as a 'Latest News' cms - it runs as a cgi script ( which lighttpd will serve via "mod_cgi": server.modules = ( "mod_proxy", "mod_cgi") static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".ks", ".py", ".cgi" ) cgi-assign = ( ".py" => "/usr/local/bin/python") (Also useful is my trusty , if imperfect, html generator, htmlbuilder.py: http://gflanagan.net/site/python/htmlbuilder/htmlbuilder.py ) Hope that helps. Gerard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list