[thelist] zope: a few questions

[Chris W. Parker]

hi.

this is related to my previous question to the list entitled "intranet
framework(s)". i guess i should have entitled it "cms: what do you
use?". at any rate, i have found and installed zope but am afraid i do
not fully understand the zope paradigm. so here are some questions.

1. is all the content of the website stored in the zope db? i created my
first page via the admin control panel and called it "mypage_html"
(mimicing the index_html file that is found in the root) and then viewed
it via "http://localhost:8080/". however i was not at all thrilled with
using the textarea box as my editor so i tried to open the file in
html-kit. to my dismay i was not able to find any file called
mypage_html. i came to the conclusion that there is no such file called
mypage_html but rather there is a virtual file contained in a db
somewhere. is this true?

2. can i edit pages in any other editor besides the zope interface
without having to import that file via the zope interface?

3. can server side scripting be used with zope? afaik python and Perl*
will work, but i'd like to use asp. but then again i've also read that
using IIS with zope is no good.

so far i'm not sure if i like zope or not. i was pleased that it worked
without any tweaking after the intstallation, but i don't like the idea
that every file is stored in a db and that i may not be able to use my
own server side language with it.


thanks for the help,
chris.

* although i've read that perl is a major pain to get working. let alone
i've never used either language. well i guess that's not totally true
since my Perl exploits consists mainly of

print $myVar;

and that's about it.