advice required re migrating php app to python and most likely zope

[Ken Guest]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:10:39PM +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Ken Guest schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > I've two relatively small web applications that are currently implemented in
> > PHP and needed to be migrated to python and most likely zope afterwards as
> > we're getting a third-party Zope powered CMS later this year.
> > 
> > There isn't an immediate need for them to be developed as zope
> > modules/extensions so I was wondering what the best approach might me -
> > especially as they'd be deployed in the middle of a PHP driven website.
> > 
> > Would I be best off to enable mod_python inside apache for the moment, writing
> > good modular reusable code that may|should need minimum tweaks for when our
> > Zope CMS comes on-line or should I go the full way and design the web apps for
> > Zope from day zero?
> 
> If you want ZOPE, the only way is to use it right from the start. There 
> is not much you can write as "good modular reusable code", as ZOPE 
> imposes quite a few constraints on the way things _have_ to happen. That 
> isn't a bad thing! Its just that with ZOPE, you've got to grok what it 
> is about to use it, and much things are different from the simple 
> one-page-one-script-stuff you ususally come up with in PHP.
> 

Well it'll be zope/plone to be more exact - good to know I should start off
with zope sooner rather than later, thanks Diez.

k.

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