I apologize for my replying to self, but I was re-reading Stephan's and then Philipp's book and realized that one portion of my email has been answered. Thus, I'm hoping to clarify my question to the list.
Looking at the messageboard content class, I then did a grep on Philipp's worldcookery examples directory for btree -- sure enough, the last chapter before Expert level (14, aptly titled "Containers"), addresses RecipeFolders (what I had called RecipeContainers). It must have been late when I read that chapter because it did not reach to proper location in my memory :) Bottom line, I will re-summarize my original question below with this information in mind: * RecipeFolder Views. In a RecipeFolder page template file, how would you view both parameters on the parent RecipeFolder as well as specific child Recipes within the container? * RecipeFolder Controllers. How would you access an external python method for compiling statistics on this container and then update the view? Clearly, I'm still lacking some basic understanding in these areas, and I'm going to continue to push forward, and any guidance or suggestions of example code would be hugely appreciated. Again, thanks for your understanding and help. Best, Joel On 10/2/05, Joel Moxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello yall, > > I'm a python guy who wanted to provide an interface for some > baseball-related code to the web, so I naturally turned to Zope. I fumbled > around for a while, but Philipp and Stephan's books got me on the right track. > > Philipp's book has been wonderful for learning Zope from scratch, I've read > and re-read the first fourteen chapters (ie, everything but "Expert" stuff). > In doing so, I created my own "worldcookery-esque" content management system. > > However, there are two significant holes in my knowledge that I want to > address: 1) integrating buttons to run "controller" style scripts to tabulate > and display statistics about multiple content objects, and 2) displaying > nested content objects. > > For those of yall familiar with the worldcookery scheme, I wanted to do > something along the lines of a "Christmas Dinner". This would be a new > content object, RecipeContainer, which contains the "turkey" recipe, the > "sweet potato" recipe, and the "cornbread" recipe content objects. You would > have a page template for displaying all the recipe content objects on a > single page (preferably with minimize/maximize capabilities), an add/remove > dialog for existing recipes in the database, and a button for accessing an > external python script to compile and display statistics (like what would be > the total time to prepare all dishes). > > In other words, a user might decide to also cook cornbread for Christmas > dinner. Thus, the user would add a recipe for cornbread in the regular Add > Recipe view. The user would then go to the ChristmasDinner RecipeContainer > content object where they would select the cornbread recipe object from a > dialog containing a list of possible recipes. The user would then press a > button to access an external python script which would calculate the expected > time that cooking Christmas dinner with cornbread in addition to the turkey > and sweet potato. This expected time (and other statistics) would be > displayed on the ChristmasDinner view along with the recipes. > > Right now, I'm looking at Stephan's book and the messageboard scheme to get > ideas (ie, message content objects inside the messageboard), but I wanted to > get input from yall about the best ways to do this. I realize this will > probably seem obvious, but I am a true beginner in the scheme of things, and > I'm hoping that my experience might help extend the worldcookery teaching > paradigm. > > > Many thanks, and go Zope 3! > > Joel _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users