Not much has been said about Zope - so I'll point out a couple of reasons why I love it: 1) The web interface You can edit anything on your website via Zope's web interface. It is also really easy to offer restricted access to the managment interface if you want to let your users do certain things. 2) The object database and url to object traversal Zope comes with an object database that stores all of your content. The things in your site are transformed into python object with attributes. So you can add extra bits of information (properties) to any object. The url to access stuff in your zope tree is really doing python calls. ie. http://yoursite.com/foo/bar?spam=spam Is calling the bar method of the foo class and passing it the variable spam. 3) Aquisition The auisition model make is so that anything in the namespaces above the current object is automatically in the current objects namespace. So, you need only define something once in / and then use it or override it in subfolders. 4) versions Create new versions of your site without affecting what users see until you are ready - without a staging/devel server 5) killer RDBMS support Support for Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Postgresql, and ODBC in windows 6) Products API Easy to create reusable products and distribute them. A cool product to check out is squishdot - a slashdot clone. Create your own slashdots efforlessly. Yes, you have the option to include logic in your html - but you can also separate it if you want. Zope is really fun to work with, and for me it was a paradigm shift in web development.
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Not much has been said about Zope - so I'll point out a couple of reasons why I love it: 1) The web interface You can edit anything on your website via Zope's web interface. It is also really easy to offer restricted access to the managment interface if you want to let your users do certain things. 2) The object database and url to object traversal Zope comes with an object database that stores all of your content. The things in your site are transformed into python object with attributes. So you can add extra bits of information (properties) to any object. The url to access stuff in your zope tree is really doing python calls. ie. http://yoursite.com/foo/bar?spam=spam Is calling the bar method of the foo class and passing it the variable spam. 3) Aquisition The auisition model make is so that anything in the namespaces above the current object is automatically in the current objects namespace. So, you need only define something once in / and then use it or override it in subfolders. 4) versions Create new versions of your site without affecting what users see until you are ready - without a staging/devel server 5) killer RDBMS support Support for Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Postgresql, and ODBC in windows 6) Products API Easy to create reusable products and distribute them. A cool product to check out is squishdot - a slashdot clone. Create your own slashdots efforlessly. Yes, you have the option to include logic in your html - but you can also separate it if you want. Zope is really fun to work with, and for me it was a paradigm shift in web development.