Some of my first questions:
-Is Zope a good choice for this kind of project?
Yes.
-Which is better: Store my content (Forum posts, Links, etc) in ZODB, or a
MySQL database?
Depends. I prefer to put put large (in size or number) or frequently changed
content in SQL and small static content in Zope.
-Build my Product (right term?) in DTML/ZClasses (seems easier for my users
to customize?) or build it in Python?
Python. I would say its going to be pretty hard for a standard customer to
change a Product and break your site. Your product should be configurable.
-Can I (easily) build this system in 4 layers:
Content -- actual low-level storage, rarely customized
SQL
Logic/Object Representation -- layer used to interact with the
content, also rarely customized, although does have configuration options
ZSQLMethods
XML (page contents) -- every URL should result in an XML document,
containing all the information that will be presented on that page. Written
in DTML?
XMLDocument.
XSLT (page rendering) -- the XML documents must be transformed into
HTML/etc. These transformations, like the page contents should be
inherited; excuse me, acquired.
XMLDocument. But I would have to say whilst XML is great, rendering it is
normally slow. If you already have the document just use DTML and cut out a
step.
My 2 cents.
--
Andy McKay, Developer.
ActiveState.
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