[Zope] Re: ZDatabaseTool - does this still exist?

[michael nt milne]

Thanks for the help here. Yes I do want to capture extra information about a 
user who is registering with a site. First name, last name and company, 
phone number etc. And then to be able to to display this in a membership 
display tool. Just about to check out CMFMember. Hope it works ok on 2.05.

On 8/11/05, Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
> 
> michael nt milne wrote at 2005-8-11 10:01 -0400:
> >It doesn't to be a relational db to be able to easily add fields
> 
> There are no tables to add fields to.
> 
> As someone else already pointed out:
> 
> Zope objects often use so called properties
> as "field" emulation.
> 
> Unlike for a relational database where you
> specify the fields of a table (and all rows inherit these fields),
> properties are on individual objects (which are somehow like rows).
> 
> Zope has a feature where you can define properties not
> for individual objects but for whole collections of them:
> "ZClass"es. Adding properties to a property sheet of
> a ZClass ensures that all instances of the class have
> these properties (with the default value defined by the class).
> 
> --
> Dieter
>
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