Hey all, I'm about to start a new website, and have been a big fan of the symfony framework to date, anyways I'm always open to new ideas, so a friend recommended I give django a try, so here I am. I just finished reading through the book and doing the poll tutorial, have to say its made an impression to date :), and still trying to make my final decision......
Ive got one question and one comment to make, 1. Firstly one of best things about symfony is the debug toolbar which lets developers see whats going on, it really is an amazingly useful piece of development kit. Just to give you an idea it shows, time to execute each function call, what was from cache/generated, all SQL statements and all the php setup etc. I couldn't spot anything like this in django (or any other framework for that matter), but thought it would make an awesome addition, any thoughts? Or have I just missed this in django, the 500/404 pages are excellent though, but this allows you to see similar info for pages with bugs which don't cause a fatal error. 2. I cant believe django doesn't include this, so I figured where best to ask. Again I apologise to the reference to symfony, but I'm trying to figure out if django has an equivalent to components in symfony. I'll give you an example. If you have a nav menu on a website which is on most pages, but the contents of the navmenu change depending on the url and/or the user status, so essentially it has to be generated on each page load if required. In symfony the solution is to design a component template, and include this as though it was a normal templates on any pages where it is required. The code to generate this template is then stored in the components class and is run only whenever the component template is included. This gives you the advantage of cleanly separating the code behind the scenes and stops you having to include the code on every request. I guess this could be included in middleware but that would require filtering the request on a per page basis which would be ugly. Any thoughts or suggestions how to do this, I think I must have just missed something. Thanks, Mat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
