As James and Fredrik have implied, I believe the proper solution here
is to abstract things enough so that you *can* map the concept to a
relational database; in this case, assuming that every 'Page' has an
identifier, a 'Title' and, perhaps, multiple 'Sections' (each with an
identifier and text), you make a Page model with (unique) Name and
Title attributes, and then a Section or PageSection or etc, model, with
Name and Text fields and a ForeignKey to Page.
Then your homepage is a Page whose Name is "homepage" and whose Title
is the page title, then with a few Sections: one named "introduction"
with the intro text, one named "footer" with footer text, etc.
Finally, you'd probably want to make a templatetag that operates on
these models, so you can do something like {% printsection <page>
<section name> %} where <page> is the current Page object, and <section
name> is the name of the section you wish to print.
So your homepage would looke something like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>{{ mypage.title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{ mypage.title }}</h1>
<p class="intro">{% printsection mypage "introduction" %}</p>
<p>stuff goes here</p>
<p class="footer">{% printsection mypage "footer" %}</p>
</body>
</html>
I'm sure you can come up with more specific and/or efficient variants
on this theme, but basically this is going down the road that leads to
content management systems, which have solved this basic problem for
some time now :)
Regards,
Jeff
Phil Powell wrote:
>
> Perhaps I've not explained myself properly. Here's an example:
>
> I have a "Homepage" which has fields such as "Page Title",
> "Introduction Text", "Footer Text" etc. I want to be able to edit
> these fields just like I'd edit a standard model instance, but because
> there is only one instance of my "Homepage" I never want more than one
> instance of it to exist.
>
> -Phil
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