On 23 May 2007, at 4:23 pm, rockstar_ wrote:
Hi guys- I'm not new to Python, or to web development, but I am new to web development with python and new to Django. I've been reading about Django, and been dabbling with it for about six months. It's about time I crap or get off the pot. And, well, Django has been fun so far, so I'm gonna crap... :) I've been using Django to design a new iteration of my website, and replace all the third party software I've been using because either I can't customize that software, or I'm sure I could write something much better. So far, I've created two different apps in my project, a blog software and a photo manager. I've got all the logic working, and I'm really liking how it works. The only problem is, now I've got to get into how the templates work. So here are my questions: (1) I'd like to include little snippets from each app on another app's pages. For instance, a little "widget" in a sidebar of my blog software that has some random pictures from the photo management. Is there any suggestion on how to do this?
Template Tags!http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#writing- custom-template-tags
(2) I'd like to create a global header and footer, which will apply to all pages, and have in abstracted into their own template files. That way, if I need to add a new javascript file, or make a change to a meta tag, I can do that without having to write some mad crazy sed scripts.
You can do this pretty easily using the {% block thing %}{% endblock %} tags. There is also the {% include %} tag, if you need it.
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/
(3) I'd like to create a tagging app that allows tags for blog posts and for photos. I know how the database model for this might look, and I've read a bit on the many-to-many relationship in Django, but does anyone have any pointers here?
Someone has made a fairly generic tagging application: http://code.google.com/p/django-tagging/ Hope that helps! Dave -- David Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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