On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Rizwan <mr.mans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to extend flatpage view...I have added custom code > here..you can see navigation showing question mark here > http://beta.rmansuri.net/homepage/ > > > [snip] > #custom code start > db = MySQLdb.connect > (user='rmansuri_gq',db='rmansuri_gq',passwd='riz#wan1712',host='localhost') > cursor = db.cursor() > cursor.execute("SELECT * from django_flatpage where id != 2") > details = [row for row in cursor.fetchall()] > db.close() > Why are you bypassing the Django ORM and creating your own DB connection, etc. for this? That's a whole lot of work and you lose all the nice things the ORM provides you with, including setting up the DB connection so that MySQL returns data utf-8 encoded instead of its default latin1. The question marks are coming from the fact that the data you have can't be encoded in latin1, so MySQL returns ? for each Unicode character it can't send over a connection that only accepts latin1. You could fix your db connection to return utf8, but this whole chunk would be much more simply written as: details = FlatPage.objects.exclude(pk=2) and then in your template instead of: {% for id,url, title,content in details %} <li><a href="{{url}}">{{title|safe}}</a></li> {% endfor %} you would use: {% for fp in details %} <li><a href="{{fp.url}}">{{fp.title|safe}}</a></li> {% endfor %} Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
