[Zope] Zope symbolic links

[Joe Graham]

Okay well what I had in mind was something like this:
I have a folder to represent website "a" and another folder to represent
website "b". i have another folder with some useful scripts and yet another
folder with some useful graphics / html and it would be nice for the sake of
tying things together with vhost_monster and apache to create a "virtual"
folder inside website "a" and website "b" folder.
exampe:
/[root_folder]
  +/porn_layout_engine
  +/lots_of_nice_pics_in_sequence
  +/entertainment_site_a
    +/->porn_layout_engine
    +/->lots_of_nice_pics_in_sequence
  +/entertainment_site_b
    +/->porn_layout_engine
    +/->lots_of_nice_pics_in_sequence

So it would seem that response.redirect() in the case of the ZMI would work,
but it's not really what I am after.  I am just hoping to "external" folders
as if it existed in the child folder.  I could use restricted traverse but
maybe there is a way to approach this issue in a uniform fashion?  Maybe a
Zope product that does restricted traverse and can "mimic" the type it
points to.  If someone can give me some pointers on how to approach this
then I would not mind giving it a try.
Okay so you see my dilema?  Well if not at least hopefully the problem
domain (although fictional) is a little more interesting. :)

Regards,
Joe



-----Original Message-----
From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Eron
Lloyd
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:58 PM
To: Joe Graham
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope symbolic links


Joe,

The most popular pattern for this is to do a
<dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.redirect('/myfolder1/mygoodstuff')"> in a DTML
method or Python script acting as a symlink. To my knowledge there is no way
else out of the box to do this (though it would be interesting to
implement).

HTH,

Eron

On Friday 08 February 2002 04:38 pm, you wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to create "symbolic links" in Zope either by editing ZMI
> code or programmatically?  Let's say I want to create a "pointer" to a
> folder I have someplace.  Is there a straightforward way to accomplish
> this?  Here is a very descriptive graphical example (hahaha).
>
> /[root folder]
> /myfolder1
>   +mygoodstuff
> /myfolder2
>   ->link_to_mygoodstuff
>
> Thanks
> -joe
>
>
>
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