adamjspooner wrote:
> I don't understand writing my own views. I have little (more like no)
> experience in using POST and GET and the lot. I've used generic views
> to death in order to beat having to use custom views, but I'm now at
> the point where I must write my own view (to access a PHP web service).
> Does anyone know of any resources that I can look at/study to get a
> better understanding of the basics. I've read mark Pilgrim's DIP and
> have a bit of understanding but am struggling in the long run.
>
> I'm not 100% sure I'm even thinking about the basics correctly, so any
> resources (whether Py, Django, or generic) would be greatly
> appreciated. Free resources are the best, but I'm not opposed to buying
> books. =)
>
> Cheers!
> Adam
>
> PS- I've read every page of the Django docs, and looked at tons of
> source code...I'm a visual learner and need some visual resources (if
> that helps).
hmmm..
.
a custom view is nothing special.
it is simply a python function, that takes as input certain things, and
outputs a HttpResponse object.
for example:
def something(request)
{
response = HttpResponse("hello world!")
return response
}
you can connect this function to an URL (in urls.py), and you have your
view.
it will return a webpage with the text "hello world".
so if you want to get some data from a php page, then you will probably
do something like:
def get_php_data(request)
{
connection = urllib2.urlopen('http://the.web.service/url')
data = connection.read()
connection.close()
//here you process your data, and generate a httpResponse object.
return response
}
does this help?
gabor
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