Re: to_field connected to field in UserProfile

llows me to > select one payment method from the methods that got added to the one > specific user. (the same applies to a form field for the frontend) > > It would be awesome if you could help me in that point. Thank you very > much! > > On Feb 24, 7:10 pm, Timothy Kinney &

Re: test_cookie_worked() fails although cookie is set

by incorporating the user id into the session id? My cookie was just called myproject_myapp_sessionid. -Tim On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Following: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter14/ > > I used the request.session.set_test_cookie(

Re: Storing Template Vars in Database and rendering

Also, take a look at the template Tag feature. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#howto-custom-template-tags(scroll down about half way). It allows you to define a template (such as a dialog object) and call it from another template, thereby inserting it where you

Re: what's the right way to extend an admin view with AJAX?

Django was definitely designed to be extended. But it is sometimes hard to find the write ways to extend what you specifically want. Don't give up on extending admin. Hopefully someone will point you in the write direction. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:06 AM, snfctech

test_cookie_worked() fails although cookie is set

Following: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter14/ I used the request.session.set_test_cookie() method when I pass the login form. I then use the request.session.test_cookie_worked() method to see if the cookie was set. My view is setup to tell me when the test_cookie_worked() method fails,

Re: Admin Site Performance Problem

If it takes 60 seconds for a single item to come up on the admin site, something is seriously wrong. You configure which items show up on the admin site and if you configure it a certain way it may have many, many queries to make. If you only have one table, your query should be pretty fast. How

Dynamic list of checkboxes from database info

** Background ** In the admin view, I want to generate a form which grabs a list of items from the database and displays a checkbox next to each item. The goal is simply to check multiple boxes and hit Submit and they are deleted. Because of the way my models are setup, there is no default admin

Re: Redirecting to a different view after posting a form

huilliers < > bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 25 fév, 20:49, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I think I'll just >> > stick with urls. >> >> Mmmm... Fine for you if it works, but as far as I'm concerned I don't >> like it.

Re: Redirecting to a different view after posting a form

/samurai_id/add_item All I need to do is back up one. I was always trying to put views in HttpResponseRedirect. I think I'll just stick with urls. -Tim On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:51 AM, bruno desthuilliers < bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 25, 1:15 am, Timothy Kinney <

Re: Redirecting to a different view after posting a form

I should have mentioned explicitly that these are admin views, not standard user views. I catch the url patterns for them in myproject/ urls.py. Maybe this changes how reverse must be used? -Tim On Feb 24, 6:15 pm, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have

Redirecting to a different view after posting a form

I have two views: samurai_detail add_item_to_samurai There is a button in samurai_detail that links to add_item_to_samurai. The templates are the same except that add_item_to_samurai includes a form to add an item. After posting the form, I want to redirect back to samurai_detail (the page

Passing directory structure to template extending change_form

I have a template which extends change_form.html and I want to display the same directory links that change_form.html displays. However, I'm not sure which dictionary values to pass in to accomplish this. The breadcrumbs section is: {% trans "Home" %} {{ app_label|capfirst|escape }}

Re: newbie doubt about editing an objects field

If you are cleaning the input data (to remove the spaces) then you have this functionality. Why do you need a further description? Sorry if I'm being obtuse. -Tim On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, jimgardener <jimgarde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 10:51 pm, Timothy Kinn

Re: to_field connected to field in UserProfile

When you include the to_field, it tells Django that you want the foreignkey to be the to_field on the CustomerProfile. It then looks for a field called payment_id (following the foreignKey relationship). This is normal. If you remove the to_field, it will choose the primary key of CustomerProfile

Re: Set language on per page basis

I believe you want to use the {% *trans* %} template method. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/internationalization/ -Tim On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Tor Nordam wrote: > I'm currently developing a project for making course webpages at my >

Re: newbie doubt about editing an objects field

rde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 9:55 pm, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Just add > > the option *unique=True* when you define the field in the model and the > > database will not allow two entries with the same value for that fie

Re: two different models, order by date

I agree with Pablo. Don't start designing queries until you've designed your database relations, because the queries are meaningless if you change relationships. Sit down with a piece of paper and list or draw bubbles or whatever so that you can establish what your models are, what the fields are

Re: non stop media player on site - similar to facebook chat

I'm not an expert on this, but will give it a stab. If you use a template system then the deeper web pages for a particular site will be extending the index pages. I think you could set up your different site names to all inherit from a single media_player.html template that has the flash player

Re: newbie doubt about editing an objects field

As far as requiring a unique value you can set this in your model. Just add the option *unique=True* when you define the field in the model and the database will not allow two entries with the same value for that field. On the other hand, if you have something like first names and last names you

Re: Optimize large table view

to optimize my query even more and also get a better understanding of database query theory. Thank you all! -Tim On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:40 AM, bruno desthuilliers < bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 24, 9:08 am, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com> wrote: &g

Optimize large table view

I have models which describe a game. There are 61 provinces with 9 rooms in each province, for a total of 549 locations. There are several hundred samurai, each assigned to a particular room id. Province(name, id, exits) Room(id, name, foreignkey('Province')) Samurai(id, name, foreignkey('Room'))

Re: custom method in view/models

x.prefix == i.dst[:l]: > > rated = x.rate > > > > if type(y) == float and y > int(y): > > zz = (int(y)+1) * rated > > else: > > zz = rated * y > >

Re: custom method in view/models

t; > here you can see i am using call.minz , while minz is a function in > models.py under class Ast . in this function it works fine if i put a > static rate for all records against self.billsec but i want it to > match with other table from Database . And am not getting if i try to > c

Optimizing template rendering and database queries

I would like to include the following values on my admin pages, as part of the base_site: time_to_query_database time_to_render_page Is there code I can draw from to accomplish this? Or do I need to code it myself? Are there built-in methods in Django for timing database queries to help users

Re: custom method in view/models

p://173.45.115.106/template.jpg > > This will probably clear me , that what i want in my column "call > Cost" in my datatable. > thanks > > > > On Feb 24, 2:47 am, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It sounds like you should have

Re: custom method in view/models

It sounds like you should have a look at: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/ Instead of rendering straight to html you can structure the html as a template and then feed your dictionary context in. Then your view points to the template. If your template was called test.html then

Re: custom method in view/models

I agree, your models are correct. You just need to create a view (possibly using a template) to serve this information to the web. -Tim On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Feb 23, 9:10 pm, soFh wrote: > > Well i was already

Re: Generate random data for Django models

argument for just writing the json file, actually. If anyone has comments on how best to create a large number of objects at runtime (say 100 to 500), I'd be happy to hear them. Hopefully, this helps someone else. -Tim On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com>

Re: custom method in view/models

Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding exactly what you want. Could you be more specific about your models and your calculations? Let me take a stab at a guess, though. Let's say you have a model City with a population field and a model WaterUse with a total_water_use field. Then let's say you

Re: order_by a quotient?

Sorry, I just thought of something else. You could add a field to the database that contains the calculated quotient and then order by that column. -Tim On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com>wrote: > I think I would write a custom funct

Re: order_by a quotient?

I think I would write a custom function to do this, but there may be a good reason to have the ORM do it for you (I'm not a database guy). If it was my app, I would probably just do this: ** def order_by_quotient(a,b): q = [] for i in range(len(a)): q.append(a[i]/b[i]) return

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

Katana', u'Wakizashi'] How can I construct the query set to just print the list (without the [ ] brackets) and without the unicode u in front of everything? Like this: O-yoroi, Rice, Sharp Katana, Wakizashi Thank you for your time. -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Timothy Kinney

Re: Generate random data for Django models

the samurai in the correct province. I think I can extract this information from the request though. We shall see. -Tim On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Okay, I've got such a button and I have copied a template from admin to > serv

Re: Djamgo cookies

If a user disallows cookies on their own machine, there's nothing you can do about it. This is why a lot of websites say: "You need to have cookies enabled." On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, adamjamesdrew wrote: > This is not an issue with me as I can just turn off the

Re: Generate random data for Django models

rom within the instance of the province I want to update? If so, how do I tell the pattern matching to ignore that? -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Peter Herndon <tphern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > > > So I have a nice little

Re: Use admin tools for "normal users" pages

You basically just need to copy the admin templates and views (see the django.contrib.admin directory) to your user templates and views (you can set where this directory is in settings.py, but it's often a directory called templates under your project or your app). Then it should be easy to look

Re: How to Create models with columns not corresponding to database.

Maybe the problem is that you don't quite understand what models are for. If you just want to create a report from your SQL data you use the models to structure the data and define relationships, not to report it. You use the views and the templates to generate the actual report. Does that make

Re: How to make the login forms available to the entire site?

There may be a more elegant way, but I think you could just call the login view from whatever view the url directs the user too. So it fills in the login info and then renders the rest of the page...but on second thought maybe you need to include the login form in every view... On Sun, Feb 21,

Re: Django CMS

+1 On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote: > I used the same comparison you did, and I ended up going with Django-CMS. I > like it a lot. > > As for importing the content, that should be pretty easy. Once you see how > Django-CMS works you'll just need to make

Re: what is the name of your super class?

This is strange. When I duplicate your code, thanos, I get an error that says: AttributeError: SubClass instance has no attribute '__bases__' What's different about my setup? I'm running Python 2.5.3 -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:43 PM, thanos wrote: > How about: > > >>>

Re: one form, many submits

You could also go with a column called "Execute" and a checkbox for the actions you want to execute and then a single submit button that grabs all the checked actions. But I think the other way is probably more intuitive. -Tim On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Tom wrote: >

Re: what is the name of your super class?

This is an old document, but is useful for understanding class structure in python: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro/ I think you might want the subclass.__class__ method. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Joel Stransky wrote: > Bit of a python

Generate random data for Django models

So I have a nice little database now stocked with items and provinces. I now want to generate random samurai and populate the database with them. I can think of two ways to do this: 1) Through the admin interface. But how do I install a button that will add a random samurai? Adding samurai is a

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

log.rk.edu.pl/w/p/code-snapshot-ice-isle-django-web-crpg-game/ > http://github.com/batiste/django-rpg > > sounds like it could be a great project. have fun! > > On Feb 19, 2:18 pm, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > > > Thanks f

Re: Providing flatpages initial data

string) pk_count = 1 for key in provlist: string = getFieldsString(key) f.write(string) f.close() *** / code *** Then I need to strip the last comma from the file and add the closing bracket. There is probably a more elegant way to do this, but this is what came to mind first. I open t

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

t; translate it to a Django model: > > class Inventory(models.Model): >samurai = models.ForeignKey('Samurai') >item = models.ForeignKey(Item) > condition = models.IntegerField(default=100, blank=True, > verbose_name='condition') > > Hope this helps. > > On F

Re: Database relations concepts

the name up for a template. Since every province has a unique ID, I don't think there will ever be a stack-overflow. I appreciate the input. -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Javier Guerra <jav...@guerrag.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Timothy Kinney > <timothyjk

Re: Providing flatpages initial data

I started playing with this last night and got about as far as you mentioned here. What I want to be able to do, though, is write a python script that writes an authentic json flatpage that I can import into the database. I have a large textfile full of names, items, and province information (for

Re: Database relations concepts

alue. -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Le Quoc Viet <viet.aikid...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Thanks for reply. I mean if I want Samurai to be out of all rooms? > ForeignKey disallows Null. Should I do like this: Create a default dummy > Room and assign it by defa

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

onal databases. Perhaps an article on basic database design > might help. It's best to really understand how a relational database > works and should be designed before trying to work with Django's ORM. > > > http://www.deeptraining.com/litwin/dbdesign/FundamentalsOfRelationalDatabas

Re: Database relations concepts

r Herndon wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > > > > Here's the system I'm currently using that doesn't work too well... > > Samurai (id, name) > > Room (id, name, ForeignKey(Samurai), ForeignKey(Province)) > > Province (id, name) &

Re: Database relations concepts

What does it mean to check about index selectivity? Sorry, my knowledge of databases is mostly as a user. But I am learning a lot this week. -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Javier Guerra <jav...@guerrag.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Timothy Kinney >

Re: Database relations concepts

fer a list if possible. Cheers. -Tim On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Peter Herndon <tphern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > > > > > Here's the system I'm currently using that doesn't work too well... > > > > Samu

Database relations concepts

I'm having some trouble wrapping my head around some ORM concepts in Django. I have a Samurai model, and I want to develop a Province and Room model. The idea is that each Room is associated with a Province (is in the province) and each Room can hold multiple samurai (and items). I want to be

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

lp. It's best to really understand how a relational database > works and should be designed before trying to work with Django's ORM. > > > http://www.deeptraining.com/litwin/dbdesign/FundamentalsOfRelationalDatabaseDesign.aspx > > On Feb 18, 3:17 pm, Timothy Kinney <timo

Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

Hello, I'm new to Django, but learning as fast as I can. I would appreciate some technical help and some database design advice... ** 1) Admin pluralizing question So I have three models: samurai, item, inventory When I login to the admin screen it has chosen to pluralize them as: samurais,

Re: getting a view function from a view name

Check out the http shortcuts: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/shortcuts/ There is one for redirect that can redirect you to a function in the view. -Tim On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Ryan Mark wrote: > Any thoughts as to how I could get the view function from

Re: cant see data with a Generic View

This happened to me before. I solved it by first writing generic text in the template and then making sure that the text would show. Then I passed a variable to the template but left it defined as {None: None} to see if I was making the call correctly. Finally, I edited the variable to be some

Re: ANN: Djangout -- Buildout recipes for Django

Sorry for the noob question, but what is a Buildout recipe? On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Gustavo Narea < gustavona...@2degreesnetwork.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm pleased to announce Djangout, a set of Buildout recipes for > Django. Although that "set" is made of just one item, we find this

Re: choices in model field error

Can you successfully log in to the admin site using the test server? On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:18 AM, hooda_28 wrote: > hi im having a problem for about an hour now, i have a model > > class Dummy(models.Model): >sell = models.CharField(max_length=20,

Re: Authentication Issue: Unregistered username with blank password

, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Timothy Kinney <timothyjkin...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am using a basic authentication/login scheme in Django 1.1.1 and > Python 2.5.3. It behaves correctly if I login correctly, or if I use > use a correct username but wrong password. It also works for an > unknow

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

Is it possible to transfer the valid session from Django to RoR? I'm not really sure if that makes sense, but it's what comes to mind. Basically, if you have already authenticated on one framework you should be able to pass along the authentication without having to copy the password over. FWIW

Authentication Issue: Unregistered username with blank password

I am using a basic authentication/login scheme in Django 1.1.1 and Python 2.5.3. It behaves correctly if I login correctly, or if I use use a correct username but wrong password. It also works for an unknown username AND any password. However, if I type in a username that is not in the database

Browser games in Django

Django seems to be an ideal platform for creating browser games, ie lightweight MMORPGs. Searching the archives I found some references to others doing this in 2007 and 2008. Is anybody aware of any current projects (especially open source) that use Django to publish browser game content? Also,