Generic templates

2010-01-30 Thread Dylan Evans
I'm new to django and i think it's brilliant except for the weird template system. It seems the only way i can write templates which are generic enough to be reusable is to write complex tags and filters for tasks which could be handled by a simple argument on a function call, or as a compromise a

Re: Generic templates

2010-01-30 Thread Dylan Evans
No i have processors, i have all the data i need in the template, i just don't know an elegant way to condition out menu items. This is how my model works ACCESS_CHOICES = ( (1, "Public"), (10, "Private"), (100, "Staff"), (1000, "System") ) class Menu(models.Model): name

Re: Generic templates

2010-01-31 Thread Dylan Evans
quot;access" tag checks for the existence of user in the context and calculates the users access level, or failing that assumes an access of 1 (Anonymous). Then it checks for an access property on item and renders the block only if user.access >= item.access . You see why the formerly m

Re: Cannot authenticate ...

2010-01-31 Thread Dylan Evans
I think your password is stored in plaintext. try using User.set_password http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#passwords On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:42 AM, tsmets wrote: > I create in my model the Authors > > > class Author(User): > """ An Author is someone more of less identified "

Re: Pulling a user to save a form

2010-02-05 Thread Dylan Evans
user = User.objects.get(username__exact='bob') Works fine for me, you may want to try get since it will throw an exception if there is no matching user. Then you know the problem is elsewhere. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:30 AM, kamilski81 wrote: > I would like to save a form by doing the following

Re: writing a webmail service

2010-03-08 Thread Dylan Evans
It is, but so is almost anything else. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:01 PM, chels wrote: > > I am planning to (or atleast attempting to) write a webmail service > (like gmail, hotmail etc) using Python. I would like to know if Django > would be suitable for this. > > -- > You received this message be

Re: relative links to css, images, javascript -> problem

2010-03-08 Thread Dylan Evans
I use a STATIC variable in templates which i set in settings.py which points to the appropriate server or path. So the link is and STATIC is something like STATIC="192.168.1.5:8001" Of course i use lighttpd for static files On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Martin N. wrote: > I encountered probl

Re: How execute erlang code ?

2010-03-11 Thread Dylan Evans
I would suggest running your erlang on another webserver and either using an iframe or use django as a proxy (connect to erlang in your django view). On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:02 PM, nameless wrote: > Hi at all. > I need to create a blogging system with Django+Apache+Postgresql and a > twitter-l

Re: How execute erlang code ?

2010-03-12 Thread Dylan Evans
erver > with 2 program languages :-\. > > > - > On 12 Mar, 07:29, Dylan Evans wrote: > > I would suggest running your erlang on another webserver and either using > an > > iframe or use django as a proxy (connect to erlang in your django view). > > > > >

Re: How execute erlang code ?

2010-03-12 Thread Dylan Evans
web chat ( using ajax and long polling on client side ). > This is because I have chosen Erlang+Yaws+Mnesia. > Is it a wrong approach ? > > thanks. > > ---- > On 12 Mar, 15:20, Dylan Evans wrote: > > That's difficult to say without specifics, but you should be able