Django gives you a great interface to the database and lets you pull things from your objects without having to write custom SQL (which is one of the reasons PHP still irks me). The hook to your models and applications through the templates are template tags. You can write your own. Here is the docs for that: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#writing-custom-template-tags
Of course for something like pulling data to the homepage should have been done already and there is no reason to reinvent the wheel. James Bennett ( b-list.com check it out. His blog often has tutorials and best practices for django and there are at least 4-5 articles on writing template tags), offers a tool to pull recent items from your models: Here is a link to the code: http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/source/browse/trunk/template_utils/nodes.py the rest of the template-utils there are very helpful too. Hope that helps, Michael On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having been a PHP programmer for several years and really loving it, > I've heard tons and tons of great things about Python. With this, I > decided to really try out django and the following link is what I've > started out with: > > http://fallingbullets.com/blog/2006/aug/06/wordpress-clone-27-seconds-part-1-40/ > > Outputting the blogging information works flawlessly in the /blog/ > section and I've had no problems in this area what so ever. The > problem lies in creating the home page. > > I added the following into my urls.py: > home_dict = { > 'template': 'home.html' > } > > and then: > # Homepage: > (r'^$', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template', home_dict), > > From there, I've created my homepage template to look exactly as I > would like it to look, now it just needs some content. In PHP, this > is simple, you just query the database for the first blog post, and > other items. > > How do you go about querying the database when you are not inside of > one of the "apps" you've created in django? Do I need to create > another app or parse it in via XML, or there an easier way? > > Thanks for all of the help! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
