Hi folks, Long-time PHP/Zend user here who'd LOVE to switch to Python/Django for webdev work. I've just spent a few hours snooping around Django and really like what I see, but before I invest any real time in it I'd really appreciate some advice on if (or how easily) a few things can be done. My main concern is the flexibility of django-admin. I LOVE the feature, but I'm a little concerned about flexibility. Any suggestions on the following would be very appreciated:
#1.) For usability's sake, I'd like to have foreign key models embedded in the same admin form as the model they're referencing. For example, if there's a "products" model with a one-to-many relationship to "product options", I'd like to add "product options" from within the "product" admin form. (Eg javascript adds another field each time all existing "product option" fields are filled out...or something). Anything that will help (or hurt) me in trying to add this sort of functionality? Is this commonly done? #2.) Adding javascript to individual admin forms. Simple? #3.) Customising the HTML (not CSS) output of django-admin. For example, putting a thumbnailed image next to each product in the Admin-->Products table list. Simple? #4.) A lot of what I do is basic (but custom) e-commerce & CMS stuff. Django's CMS potential looks very solid, although I'm wondering if tacking on basic e-commerce features to django-admin could be a little cumbersome. Features such as basic order reports/stats etc don't seem to fit too freely into the django-admin approach. I'll also need to auto-create thumbnails from model.ImageField inputs. Easily doable? #5.) 'Convenience' form fields in admin forms. For example, a select box that lets you choose a parent category, which in turn presents a 'child category' select box, etc...or tree-structured checkboxes. I'm comfortable writing up the javascript, but from a quick inspection django-admin didn't seem to like the inclusion of select fields that weren't intended to interact with the model. Was this just my clumsy newbieness or is this going to be a problem? Many thanks - hope to be one of the django community soon. :-) - Unclaimed Baggage -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
