Zope/Plone

	Open-Source Application Server/
	Content Management System

Web Application Servers

	Platforms for serving dynamic web content
	Scripting/Markup language
	Database connection
	Sessioning support
	Form handling assistance

Open Source Web App Servers

	PHP + MySQL or PostgresSQL
	Apache Jakarta Tomcat (JSP)
	Perl::Mason
	Zope

ZOPE Features

	Object Application Server
	Built-In Web Server
	Through The Web Management (TTWM)
	Fine-Grained Access Control
	Object Database
	Versatile Cataloging
	WebDAV / ftp
	Markup Languages: DTML & ZPT

ZOPE Features, Continued

	Multiple Database Adapters
	Object-Oriented Extensibility
	Plug-In Products
	Runs on Windows, *nix, BSD, OS X
	Python’s Killer App
	Open Source & Zope Corporation

Through-The-Web Management

Zope Deployment

	Apache Front End Virtual Hosts, SSL, Caching
	MySQL or PostgresSQL
	ZODB, RDBMS or File-System
	Load Balancing with ZEO

App Server Dynamic Content Markup Strategies

	Interleave Code/Text/HTML: PHP, JSP, ASP, Mason <% bit o’ code %> <p>Insert something here: <+ myvar +></p> <% bit more o’ code %>
	Tag-Based (block structured): Zope DTML, Cold Fusion ML
	XML Validating: Zope Page Templates (ZPT)

Markup: DTML

	<dtml-in searchRes sort=title>
	<h1><dtml-var title html_quote></h1>
	<div>
	<dtml-if body>
	<dtml-var body fmt=structured_text>
	<dtml-else>
	No body here
	</dtml-if>
	</div>
	</dtml-in>

Markup: ZPT

	<tr tal:repeat=“item here/searchRes”>
	<td tal:content=“item/title”>
	Dynamic Content
	<td>
	<div tal:condition=“item/body”
	tal:replace=“item/body”>
	More Dynamic Content
	</div>
	</td>
	</tr>

Local Users

	Davis Community Network
	UCD
		Languages & Literature
		Mathematics
		School of Medicine (Plone)
	Yolo Elections Office
	Sacramento River Portal & Library
	Reid-McMahon, LLC
		DFM, DDBA

Content Management Systems

	Separate Form and Content
		Support Diverse Document Types
	Support Information Architecture
		Full-Text Searching
		Meta Tag (e.g., Dublin Core) Cataloging
		Hierarchical Navigation
	Access Control
	Workflow Support

Web CMS

	Through The Web Management (TTWM)
		WebDAV / FTP
	Document Conversion
	Often Oriented to Web Publishing
	Often Confused with Portals

Open Source Web CMS

	PHP Nuke – http://phpnuke.org PHP, Apache mod_php, MySQL
	Bricolage – http://bricolage.cc/ Perl::Mason, Apache mod_perl, PostgresSQL
	Drupal – http://www.drupal.org/ PHP, SQL
	Midguard – http://www.midgard-project.org/ *nix, PHP, Apache mod_php, MySQL

Zope-Based

	Nuxeo CPS – http://www.cps-project.org
	Silva – http://www.infrae.nl/products/silva
	Plone – http://www.plone.org

The Plone Onion

Zope Content Management Framework (CMF)

	CMS Toolkit
	Adds to Zope:
		Membership System
		Workflow
		Dublin Core Metatags
		Automatic Cataloging
		Skinning
		A Few Skinnable Content Objects

Plone CMS

	Zope CMF Skin + Content Objects
	Polished, Standards-Based Interface
	Simplified Metadata (keywords)
	Publishing Workflow
	Standardized, Smart Forms
	Several Distributions
	I18n
	Ready to Go

Plain-Old Plone

Rockridge Institute (Example)

Re-Skinned

Zope/Plone Technologies

	ArcheTypes: Rapid Class Development
	Epoz: WYSIWYG Editor
	Restructured Text: Simple Markup
	PortalTransformations: MIME-based content transformation
	TextIndexNG: Indexing w/ stemming, normalization, stop words, similarity/ proximity search, document converters

Where to Get More Information

	ZUGOD http://www.zugod.org/
	http://www.zope.org/
	http://cmf.zope.org/
	http://plone.org/
	The Zope Book Letteier & Pelletier (online & in print)
	The Plone Book (online)
	Definitive Guide to Plone (print)
	Mailing Lists