Thanks for the lengthy answer.I already started looking into that session application. Ill read through the other pages also... If i only had time for all this. Thats the main reason why i asked those questions - i needed someone to point me towards right applications/ pages so i can just run search for right module, not start with searching, which module would be the one i need.
Alan On Apr 8, 3:03 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 06:46 -0700, zayatzz wrote: > > Hello > > > Im mainly thinking bit ahead here, while im still in the beginning of > > writing my first real project/application with django. > > If someone could answer all or some of those questions and perhaps > > provide examples, then i would greatly appreciate your help and buy > > you a beer, whenever you end up near where i live :). > > > 1) Cookies. I read from older posts that there is some kind of django > > authentication library/module for holding that kind of information. In > > any case, lets say that i dig deep enough into that module and figure > > out how to do all that while session is active, but how do i read that > > information from browser cookie next time the user comes to this site? > > You're looking at too low a level. The basic session management > application that comes with Django (django.contrib.sessions) provides > the layer between the browser cookie identifier and information you've > stored in the session. Note that the data is stored server-side, not in > the cookie itself: the cookie provides only the session identifier to > retrieve the session information from the session storage. There are > other ways to do session (you're not required to use Django's session > application, after all), but for many purposes, the Django default app > is sufficient and make life very easy. > > > > > 2.1) Since im thinking about creating site with some sort of cms i > > want to know what kind of field types should i usefor lengthy texts > > like news or basic content articles? > > Worth reading the documentation on the basic model field types for > information like this. The TextField pretty much screams out for use > here. > > > 2.2) Is there a point building full scale cms with django or should > > that be done with just python? Will django actually hinder such > > projects? > > You can use Django for this. In fact, the original usage of Django is > for the commercial product (still being used by a lot of companies) > called Ellington, which is a CMS. > > > > > 3) Are there any examples of pages which get their content from > > several views/modules? > > The question doesn't make sense from the terminology you're using. A > "view" function is just a function that is used as the entry point for > processing a particular request. After identifying the URL requested, > processing has to go somewhere and that somewhere is called a view > function. The view can happily call other functions to collect the data > it leaves. When the initial view function returns, that returned data is > what is sent back to the client. > > > Or what is the general practice with pages that > > load information from different places to one page? > > Collect the information however you like and pull it all together before > rendering it via a template (or some other way to final content that > goes into an HttpResponse object). > > > You create view > > that imports information from several modules and shows it as single > > page or is there some way to just reload certain area of a webpage > > when visitor clicks a button/link or fills a form. > > Ajax is supported, since that is just another HTTP call. There's also > support for detecting if a call is an Ajax-style call or not (there's > an is_ajax() method on the HttpRequest object. > > > > > 4) Are there any good examples about how to use javascript/ajax with > > django? > > Yes. Google is your friend here. > > > > > 5) How can i manage images with django. Are there stuff like gdlib/ > > imagemagic for django? > > You can certainly use either of those if you like. The standard Python > imaging library is called the Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Django > uses that for things like determining the size of an uploaded image. > Again, a quick read of the model documentation would probably give you > some immediate benefits here. That sort of thing is mentioned when the > ImageField is described. > > There is a *lot* of documentation for Django, the majority of it pitched > at a level that somebody learning the framework can pick things up when > they're paying attention. Lots of code fragments and more complete > examples. Well worth taking a few evenings to read through what's there. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
