On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sander<sander.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been asked to find the most appropriate framework with which to > implement the following: > > A website with > 1. Modules, which separate (partially user-configurable) style, from > user settings, from content. A bit like the igoogle modules.
django is OK for that (user settings and content are both usually in the DB tho), as for themability, http://code.google.com/p/django-themes/ should do it. > 2. ...which can be inserted in various places in a page, depending on > the user's preferences, again think netvibes, igoogle, librarything, > etc. this is orthogonal to django > 3. ...which can be inserted via some Ajax magic into an external page. > No problem if this is limited to "no login" modules only. again orthogonal :-) > 4. Also the whole thing has to have easy interaction with an XML-based > database and web services. most data will be from these sources and > not from an SQL database. there are two ways you can do this: a) create the XML backend for django ORM and enjoy the orm and admin and similar stuff b) simple use the XML backend :), django views allow you to do anything in them, as noted above you'll loose the admin interface > 5. ...and be easy to use & open source, have many developers who like > to > work with it. django has it :-) (altho TBH, from what i'm seeing in san francisco rails has much more devs around) > > I was thinking (2) is fairly easy to do with a bit of javascript/ > scriptaculous, also (3) can probably be added quite easily with some > limitations. > > So this leaves mainly > 1: Is there a standard way in django, or a package, to easily render a > basic look of a module, with user settings and style in a standard > way? > Support for skins? Forms that refresh a module only on submit? > Anything that can help here? > 4: Can you easily replace (most of) the 'model' with something so > different? > > If you know any other solutions that would work here, I'd also like to > hear them. I'm not expecting there is a full solution available > anywhere, but mostly looking for modules etc. which can help to do > part of this. The focus here is on quickly getting something out and > then drawing in other open-source developers for more modules. > > PS. Not really a Python user, and huge Ruby fanboy, but since I don't > have to implement the thing I might as well look at Python solutions > too. In case some of this is RTFM-level stuff just point me to the > appropriate FM. > > > > python/django hacker & sys admin http://almirkaric.com & http://twitter.com/redduck666 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
