Site Index

Table of Contents:
- 1: What does Grok do particularly well?
  - 1.1: What are the nicest things about Zope & Grok?
- 2: Grok & Zope in a Nutshell
- 3: The Compulsory Part about Installing Grok
  - 3.1: Installing Grok from Github
  - 3.2: Installation Notes - older projects
- 4: A short introduction to the Zope Component Architecture
  - 4.1: What types of components are defined by the ZCA?
  - 4.2: The Z-Object Publishing Environment
  - 4.3: Traversal and the Context
  - 4.4: Interfaces compared to Abstract Bases
    
    4.4.1: Interfaces vs. Inheritence: A Real World Example
  - 4.5: Events Mechanism
    
    4.5.1: A quick megrok.rdb (SQLAlchemy) setup howto
  - 4.6: Extending existing objects with Annotations
  - 4.7: The amazingly useful Utility
- 5: Designing a site, defining it's layout and implementing the code
  - 5.1: How to make applications with Grok
    
    5.1.1: HTML Re-use and site layout
    
    5.1.1.1: Macros: an alternative way to re-use HTML
    
    5.1.1.2: The full source for the layout.py module
    
    5.1.2: Modeling data in an application
    
    5.1.2.1: Notes on multithreading
    
    5.1.2.2: The Scope of models in Traversal
    
    5.1.2.3: Rules of Persistence
    
    5.1.2.4: User Session Management
    
    5.1.3: Defining an Article and the Application
    
    5.1.4: Providing for article addition, modification and deletion
    
    5.1.4.1: Another way of rendering hidden input widgets
    
    5.1.5: Using Viewlets and Viewlet Managers to build a Navigation Fabric
    
    5.1.5.1: Ordered menus from a normal grok.Container
    
    5.1.5.1.1: Full source for SortedArticles Module
    
    5.1.5.2: menu.py Full Source
    
    5.1.5.3: Styling menu elements as buttons or menus
    
    5.1.6: Site Navigation: Context sensitive menus
    
    5.1.7: Integrating the tinyMCE editor
    
    5.1.7.1: A less trivial integration for tinyMCE
    
    5.1.8: Adding attachments to articles
    
    5.1.8.1: Adding syntax highlighting
    
    5.1.9: Authentication, Authorisation and Access Control
    
    5.1.9.1: Defining Permissions
    
    5.1.9.2: Defining and Assigning Roles
    
    5.1.9.3: Installing a Pluggable Authentication Utility
    
    5.1.9.4: Building a user management interface
    
    5.1.9.5: Controlling access to views and data
- 6: Adding functions and extensions
  - 6.1: Adding an Index Page
  - 6.2: Printing the site as a book
  - 6.3: Using Layers and Skins: How to re-skin your Grok site
    
    6.3.1: Using Bootstrap to fast track site development
    
    6.3.2: Providing a nav bar and breadcrumbs
    
    6.3.3: Some closing remarks
  - 6.4: Adding a Disqus comment section
- 7: About
- 8: Other Resources available on the web