To those following along at home -- I've had the Eureka moment. will fill anyone interested in tomorrow...kid is crying
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Ryan Headley <[email protected]>wrote: > Bruce, > > You are correct, I am apparently mixing up "Sites" versus "Apps" > > Basically, I have a large client that wants several store fronts all > managed from one Satchmo instance. > > I'm having trouble setting up the project such that Store A has its custom > products as well as look/feel and Store B has its custom products as well as > look/feel. > > > What I have is a project called "estore" > Underneath that I have the usual Django stuff. > > My thought was I would create an "app" for each storefront to house the > customized pieces. In this case we'll stick with generics so > Underneath estore I have an app "StoreA" that has its own models inheriting > from Satchmo's product module. > > For now this is all well and good because they won't be launching the > second store until later this year, so it gives me some time. my thought > was that I would start another app called "StoreB" that would have its own > custom products (again extending from Satchmo's product model). Where I am > running into confusing is that StoreA will need a completely different set > of customized templates than StoreB -- this is what I can't figure out. > > I "could" kick off a process for each store and specify a different > settings file for each "app" that only overwrites SITE_ID and TEMPLATE_DIRS, > but that seems like it may not be the best way to go. I've tackled that > before using mod_python and a telling it a different settings file for each > instance, but is that the best approach? > > > Pardon the rambling, its been a long night... > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Alex Robbins < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Ok, if every site has its own settings.py file (and I think they have to, >> since SITE_ID is a setting), then you could just have a different >> TEMPLATE_DIRS setting for each site. >> >> If you have two sites: store_a and store_b >> >> store_a_settings.py >> TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( >> '/home/username/src/templates/store_a/', >> '/home/username/src/templates/generic/' >> ) >> >> store_b_settings.py >> TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( >> '/home/username/src/templates/store_b/', >> '/home/username/src/templates/generic/' >> ) >> >> >> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#the-template-dirs-setting >> >> That might accomplish what you are hoping for. >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Ryan Headley <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> That's not a bad idea. I must ask however if I am misinterpreting the >>> point of the sites framework in django? If someone wants to run >>> multiple sites from one django instance is writing your own template >>> loader the way to keep templates separate? Just curious how others >>> are handling this (satchmo or not) >>> >>> On 8/25/09, Alex Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > If you really want the template looked up that way why not write your >>> own >>> > template loader? Just pull the source from one of the existing loaders >>> but >>> > don't look in so many places. >>> > >>> > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#loader-types >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Ryan Headley <[email protected] >>> >wrote: >>> > >>> >> So its not as simple as just laying out a directory structure >>> >> appropriately? >>> >> >>> >> Damn, here I was thinking I could have app1 find its templates in >>> >> templates/app1 and app2 find its templates in app2, etc. >>> >> >>> >> I guess I had that impression from django itself -- *ugh* >>> >> >>> >> Thanks for the link, I'll take a look. >>> >> >>> >> Ryan >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Bruce Kroeze <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:24 PM, lifewithryan<[email protected] >>> > >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >>> > I have a need to run the "Multi-Shop" functionality. My question >>> is, >>> >>> > after reading some blog tutorials on GoSatchmo.com -- I think I >>> have a >>> >>> > directory structure like the one mentioned in the project layout >>> >>> > tutorial: >>> >>> > >>> >>> > /estore -- this is my main directory with settings.py, urls.py etc. >>> >>> > /appname -- my custom app holding my custom product >>> >>> > __init__.py, models.py, etc >>> >>> > /templates -- my templates >>> >>> > /shop -- copied over from satchmo >>> >>> > /product -- copied over from satchmo >>> >>> > >>> >>> > >>> >>> > My plan is that for my other "shops" i'll just add another >>> "appname" >>> >>> > directory like above. Having said that, how do I ensure that my >>> >>> > templates remain unique on a per-site basis? 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