Re: What the heck is this Zope?

My two cents: I used Zope a while back for a university project, and I've been using PHP for the best part of a year. Zope is very similar to PHP, but Zope is better suited for the novice web designer / developer. Zope makes it easy to interact with databases and allows you to iterate through a result set using HTML-like tags (DTML) like: <some HTML> <dtml-in getAllMyData> <b><dtml-var getAllMyData["name"]</dtml-var></b> </dtml-in> <!-- don't remember the exact syntax --> <some more HTML> Simple web application require very little or no programming. It also allows you to edit the (HTML) source via a web browser, which (too some) is an attractive feature. Zope is good for silly little DB apps, and coding in Python is easy (although the syntax is probably a LOT different to anything you've used before). AFAIK, it can do everything that PHP can, but I believe that PHP is faster & it's definitely more widely used and has a bigger user base. Lee recommends PHP any day. - Lee