Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-18 Thread Tim Chase
>> I've coded in PHP, and I've coded in Python. I'd choose >> Python over PHP any day. As a matter of fact, I don't touch >> PHP any more unless I'm paid to (or maintaining some of my >> old personal PHP code). > > May I ask why this disdain for PHP? OOP type puritanism aside, > it's a language

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-17 Thread Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez
Phoenix, I suggest you take a look at Jeff Croft's post [1], it is supposed to be for non-programmers, but I guess it also applies to "I don't want to learn another language"-progammer. That said, I am pretty sure you'll start loving python once you go start walking the django path. [1] http://

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Kermagoret
To achieve this goal, you could use another approach. For example, you could use a MDA tool to build you business model (through a kind of UML) and generate it directly in Django. I'm working on a project of this type. It works well and permits you to switch from a language to another through

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Anderson
Phoenix Kiula wrote: May I ask why this disdain for PHP? OOP type puritanism aside, it's a language in which one *can* code elegantly and then it's highly maintainable. And it's pretty well supported and documented around the web. I also have disdain for php. PHP has many flaws. You are right

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Doug B
It doesn't sound like Django is what you want. Django a code framework that supplies some of the nuts and bolts to make web development in python easy, but definately not an app. It may look a bit like an app at first glance due to the much referenced admin interface, but that's because the admi

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Joseph Heck
There isn't a visual interface for creating new fields, but don't let that stop you. It is really very straight forward and well documented. If you don't own the printed version of the django book, I'd recommend hitting their web site and reading or at least glancing through Chapter 5 (http://djan

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Actually, it seems we skipped past my most important question: Is it easy to create "custom fields" in Django? For example, is there an admin interface where I can create a section of my website, called Reviews. Then assign new fields to it -- Name of book, author, ISBN, my review title, my revie

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Bottom-posted: On 17/02/2008, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep. > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/ Thanks! ..snip... > yep. But as above, it requires working in Python. That said, > I've coded in PHP, and I've coded in Python. I'd choose Python > over PHP

Re: "Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread Tim Chase
> Reading the website, it seems Django is not a readymade CMS but a > "framework". More like CodeIgniter from the EE guys. I know nothing about CI from EE, but Django is as you describe: "not a ready-made CMS, but a framework" > My requirements are as follows. I would appreciate if someone can >

"Presales" questions

2008-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am moving from MT and EE to Django. Having heard a lot of positive stuff from users of Django. Reading the website, it seems Django is not a readymade CMS but a "framework". More like CodeIgniter from the EE guys. Which is a bit confusing because I don't know the out of box capabilities o