Re: shared apps accross multiple sites/projects

[Ian Holsman]

On 21/07/2006, at 7:49 AM, Brian Hamman wrote: Hey there, I'm working on a project that will run several related news sites from a single Django installation. I'll be treating each site as a separate project, complete with its own settings.py file and corresponding use of the sites framework. Where I run into trouble is with apps that are common to all sites, say an article app. Currently I'm arbitrarily placing that app into one of the sites and then referencing it in the others, which seems a bit awkward. I have a similar problem with the views and templates. are you talking about the data itself, or the code? If your app requires sharing of data, you should probably think of using sites as a many-to-many field instead of as a foreign key. but this will cause a lot of upheaval in your code when you are doing retrieval. if it's the code just stick it in a common place and put it in your python path. Hugo has his 'stuff' directory. I have zilbo.common  it isn't a big deal.. it all works. I've bandied about a few ideas such as pulling the apps and/or templates out of the projects directory into a main directory, or creating a "common" project that isn't associated with any particular site, but which contains all the common apps, views, and templates. I'm worried that this violates a sacred principle of the Django framework, which could have consequences down the road. nope.. a couple of people do this. what I do is have a site specific folder in my template path which overrides any project-specific ones. that way if site #4 wants to do something crazy it goes in site_4_templates/. regards Ian -- Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://economychat.com discussion on the economy and economics in general --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---