All, I am new to DJango and web frameworks. I've gone through the tutorial to make the Poll application. The way I see it, the Admin module is for the site builders to have an automatic interface to maintain the look-up tables (sometimes called domain tables). These are the tables that populate most of the select, radio, and checkbox tags on the forms where the regular user does her data entry, or used for any other type of behind the scenes data tables. Think of the Poll application... you used the Admin module to make a poll and assign it choices. Then, outside of the Admin module, you built the poll detail view which contained a form that presents the poll question with radio buttons for the choices to allow the user to vote. Upon voting, the user is presented with the results view. Again, the actual voting by the user was written by hand.
On Oct 1, 11:40 am, cjl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a Django and web-development newcomer, working on a tutorial for > other newcomers like me: > > http://www.instantdjango.com > > Anyway, I am working on the second chapter of my tutorial, and want to > show people how the 'admin' interface works. I am using the 'newforms- > admin' branch for this (hoping it will me merged soon). > > I realized that I don't really know when is the "right" time to use > the admin interface, and when is to the "right" time to accept input > through forms instead of using the admin interface. > > I know that they serve different purposes, but I'm having trouble > articulating those differences. > > Can anyone give me their opinion, or point me in the right direction > to learn more? > > -cjlesh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
