On 10/30/07, Roodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on a small portal, and there is a sidebar which is > visible on every page. It contains the list of latest news and forum > topics - the "usual" portal stuff. > Now the question is - how do you do that effectively in Django? I am > referring to the part which gets the data from the database of course > - the templates itself are ready, and the sidebar is in the main > "layout" template. > > My original idea was to write a header preprocessor, which will > utilize low-level caching to avoid the high database load. Is this the > way to go, or there is an easier / faster / generally better way? I > checked the template fragment caching but I think that will not help > me if since the database queries happen in the header processor.
I'm working on an app for building things similar to that, though it might not seem like it. I call it django-modular[1], because in my mind, your sidebar contains a number of modules: - latest news - latest forum topics - etc. The app isn't yet complete, but caching is on my list of features to include. Since it's not done, I'm obviously not expecting you to jump on it and swap out your existing code or anything, but it may be useful to you in the future. Also, if/when you do work out your caching problem, we might be able to work together to get it into django-modular. -Gul [1] http://code.google.com/p/django-modular/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
