Thank you all for the response. I think Jonathans version with custom
methods to get the right field in the template would be the simplest
for my moderate level of complexity, for now at least. But I've gotten
some ideas on how to do it differently now, so thanks again!
//emil
On Jan 27, 11:33 pm, code_berzerker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that better idea would be doing something like that (I'm using
> even more complicated models myself):
>
> class Page(models.Model):
> #parent page in tree of pages
> parent = models.ForeignKey('self', related_name="children",
> blank=True, null=True)
> slug = models.SlugField(unique=True)
> #name for admin page listing
> name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
> #short description for admin page listing
> descr = models.TextField()
> #relative order of silblings
> order = models.IntegerField()
> author = models.ForeignKey(User)
>
> class Content(models.Model):
> #melongs to which page
> page = models.ForeignKey(Page)
> author = models.ForeignKey(User)
> #version in what language
> lang = models.CharField(max_length=3)
> title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
> content = models.TextField()
> COMPONENTS = (
> ('article', 'Article'),
> ('news', 'News'),
> ('partners', 'Partners'),
> )
> component = models.CharField(max_length=50, choices=COMPONENTS)
> #is page published for this language version
> published = models.BooleanField()
> #template = models.ForeignKey(Template)
>
> We got relational database so lets use relations to be more efficient
> and have less data redunddancy.
> To explain a bit more class Page has one row per each page and has
> related as many rows in Content class as the number of languages. Just
> keep current language in session and use it to filter content rows to
> get the one you need. All the data that is shared among instances of
> page for each language is kept in Page class (less data redundancy).
> All the data that differs between languages is kept in Content (we
> read from database to memory only the data for one language - thats
> efficiency).
>
> Hope that helps :)
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