Re: Django blogging engine - database structure question

2008-05-22 Thread Rajesh Dhawan
Hi, On May 22, 8:54 am, djangoista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your reply - I think I'll do that, thats a good point > about space being cheaper, especially as its just plain text. Just for the record, the Django site has a nice cookbook article that discusses this. http://co

Re: Django blogging engine - database structure question

2008-05-22 Thread djangoista
Thanks a lot for your reply - I think I'll do that, thats a good point about space being cheaper, especially as its just plain text. On May 22, 1:48 pm, Eric Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what the standard is, but I'm doing exactly what you   > detail here: two DB fields, o

Re: Django blogging engine - database structure question

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
I don't know what the standard is, but I'm doing exactly what you detail here: two DB fields, one that stores Markdown text, and another, not visible in the Admin interface, that stores HTML. In the save method, one gets dumped into the other, via the markdown filter. If you or one of your

Django blogging engine - database structure question

2008-05-22 Thread djangoista
Hi, I'm about to start on a simple django-based blogging engine (I'm sure there are already many out there, but I want to have a go a creating one from scratch). I'm planning on using Markdown (lightweight markup language) for creating blog posts, but I'm not sure what to store in the DB. One opt