[Zope] Re: Command line access to Zope data

[John Poltorak]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:39:53PM +0100, Anton Stonor wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> > I am assumming that all data on a Zope hosted website resides in Data.fs 
> > even if you are running a Plone site.
> > 
> > If so, how do you update something like Plone news items from the command 
> > line?
> 
> As others have written you can connect to Zope in different ways. Zope 
> takes care of marshalling and demarshalling the data. So if you get a 
> news object from Zope by using FTP it will look like a normal HTML file 
> to your editor, command line tool or other. You can then edit the ASCII 
> file and save it back and Zope takes care of updating the database 
> accordingly.


OK, so how does Zope's FTP recognise it is getting a news object and how 
does it know which Plone site it is meant for, since there could be 
multiple sites being hosted?


> A news item will look like this:

Thanks, I will give this a try once I plug the gaps in my understanding of 
how it works.

So far I have the format of a file stored locally, say newsitem.txt, once 
I ftp to:-

myzopeftp.org  8021

how should the transaction proceed, assuming I have a Plone site called 
Plon1?

 


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> 
> /Anton Stonor


-- 
John