I decided to find out, by using one of my most common activities with PHP as the benchmark: connecting to and retrieving records from a MySQL database. As it turned out, Zope manages this quite well, and it's also nowhere near as complicated as you might think. And so, over the course of this article, I'm going to show you how to hook your Zope server up to a MySQL database, and write DTML code that allows you to retrieve and manipulate MySQL table records using standard SQL commands. If this sounds interesting, keep reading.

Contents
Kicking The Tyres
Making The Connection
Adapting To The Environment
The Magic Of The Movies
Visiting The Box Office
Adding Things Up
Submitting To The King
Erasing The Past
Of Methods And Madness
An Object Lesson

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