[Zope] Command line zope ?

[J. Cameron Cooper]

>Greetings I am a Zope newbie but have been using python for a little while. I 
>am a member of the team responsible for rebuilding my departments webiste. I 
>have suggested that we create a portal site and use a CMS and other 
>some-such. ...
>Does zope have any kind of back door so that pages can be edited with vi or 
>emacs?
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>
If you indeed want to use a CMS, you can take a look at CMF and Plone. 
The CMF framework uses a skins system to build it's presentation layer, 
and skins can come from either the filesystem of from TTW ZODB-resident 
objects.

>Is there command line access to the zope server database?
>  
>
Yep, and it's neat. Using::

zctl.py debug

you can get live access Zope from a Python shell.

Described here:
http://www.zope.org/Members/dshaw/AdvancedSiteSetup

Also there is ZShell, which should give you a Unixish shell into a live 
Zope.
http://www.zope.org/Members/jerome_alet/zshell

          --jcc

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