FileField problems - url attribute doesn't work, how do I do uploads?

2009-08-17 Thread Fluoborate
Hello All, I am being very perplexed and annoyed by models.FileField database fields. I have two problems: 1. The filefield.url attribute gives the path on my hard disk, not the internet URL that the file is being served to. The filefield.path and filefield.name attributes also give the exact sa

How to execute more code after sending an HTTP response in a viewfunction?

2009-07-09 Thread Fluoborate
Hello All, I am afraid that I might have to write my own middleware to do this. I really want to do something like the following: #In views.py: def welcome( request ): return HttpResponse( "Welcome to my website" ) #No code after the 'return' statement will ever be executed, but I wish

Re: How to do Refbacks in Django?

2009-01-29 Thread Fluoborate
Oh wait, you told me that too: MIDDLEWARE Okay, I'm all set, thanks so much. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 T

Re: How to do Refbacks in Django?

2009-01-29 Thread Fluoborate
Yes, thank you, but I already figured that out and made a stupid function add_to_log(request). What I am really wondering is, how do I avoid having to call add_to_log(request) in every single view function in views.py? Thanks. On Jan 28, 8:04 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > You have access to a

How to do Refbacks in Django?

2009-01-28 Thread Fluoborate
Hello, I would like some suggestions for how to do refbacks in Django. Every time someone clicks a link that brings them to my site, I want to record what site referred them. This is done using the HTTP referrer header. Here are my questions: 1. Does the code to do this already exist somewhere (

Re: urlresolvers.reverse() breaks when given exactly one arg of more than one character

2009-01-27 Thread Fluoborate
On Jan 27, 9:14 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > This isn't anything to do with reverse(). It's a Python thing. The > "args" argument has to be a sequence. A list or a tuple, for example. Ah, I hadn't thought of that. Somewhere deep within the Django source, something probably says "for arg in ar

urlresolvers.reverse() breaks when given exactly one arg of more than one character

2009-01-27 Thread Fluoborate
Hello All, I have a question. When I use the function django.core.urlresolvers.reverse(), it works fine with args=(), and it works fine with args=(string1, string2 [, ...more strings]), and it even works fine with args=(anyOneCharacterLongString). However, if I give it args=(multiCharacterString)

How to implement code that runs in the background?

2008-12-25 Thread Fluoborate
I have a philosophical question. How should I implement code that runs in the background, automatically, and continuously? What is a safe and kosher way to do that? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dja

Re: Why doesn't syncdb ever modify or drop tables anymore?

2008-12-25 Thread Fluoborate
en able to modify existing models. In order to get > some functionality like that, look into > django-evolution:http://code.google.com/p/django-evolution/ > > -Chris > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Fluoborate wrote: > > > Running the command: > > python man

How should I handle dynamically generated images?

2008-12-25 Thread Fluoborate
I have a website that generates images (PNG's of graphs), and I want those images to show up on the website, but I don't know how to do this. Is this possible: 1. Store the image file in an ImageField() in the SQLite 3 database. How do I do this? 2. Get the image from the database and easily serv

Why doesn't syncdb ever modify or drop tables anymore?

2008-12-25 Thread Fluoborate
Running the command: python manage.py syncdb Used to add tables and modify tables if necessary. I don't remember if it ever dropped tables. It was great, I would modify models.py and syncdb and it would just work. Then something changed, and I don't know why. Now, syncdb never modifies or drops t