On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Emily Rodgers<emily.kate.rodg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am currently working on some web apps that use django for the back > end, and extjs for the front end (using JSON to pass data between the > two). > > I am getting to the point where I am going to have to start doing some > form integration. Has anyone done this lately (with the latest version > of extjs)? If so, how did you go about it? I have looked on the web, > but most of the extjs / modelform examples are using either an old > version of django or an old version of extjs, both of which have > undergone fairly backwards incompatible changes in recent revisions. I > just thought that I would ask here before spending lots of time trying > to figure it out from scratch.
I can't speak for ExtJS, but Django hasn't had any backwards incompatible changes in almost a year - and the areas where you are delving here (i.e., view and forms handling) have been stable for much longer. So - you shouldn't have any problems (from a Django point of view) with any tutorial that is a year old. I can't offer much advice than that, though. Firstly, I'm not that familar with ExtJS; secondly, there isn't that much to explain. * You write a Django view. * That view serves a HTML page. * The HTML page contains some javascript. * The javascript makes a call on another Django view. * The second Django view serves JSON, or some other raw data format. * The javascript running on the first page uses that data to modify in-situ the original page. And boom, you have an AJAX website. To be sure, there is some complexity in getting your Javascript working - but that complexity is almost 100% a function of your JS toolkit of choice. From Django's perspective, all you ever do is serve individual pages - either HTML for human consumption, or JSON/some other format for automated Javascript consumption. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
