Re: A question about templates and search.

Oh yea, thanks, i was a bit confused. I see what I can do now. Andrew On 24 Feb, 09:02, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Feb 23, 10:51 pm, djandrow <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yea, the code that processes the search and retur

A question about templates and search.

Hello, Each of the html pages on my site extends base.html but i'm trying to get a search box going which will appear on each page. So this will go on the base.html template. Since base.html is never called except through other templates. In what view should the code for this go in, i can't

Re: My app is missing!

Thanks Tim, I got it sorted out. On Feb 19, 3:39 pm, Tim wrote: > The problem is that you are using the manage.py that is in the > project_template directory, which will load the settings.py file from > the project_template directory. > > You need to use the manage.py that

Re: My app is missing!

I may just try creating a new app and see if that works and if it does just copy the things over. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: My app is missing!

dahs <aelmali...@gmail.com> wrote: > my first gues would be you are not in the akonline folder > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 15:54, djandrow <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > I've been trying to add a few extra fields to my model

My app is missing!

Hello all, I've been trying to add a few extra fields to my model, as part of my blog app. So then I tried sqlall: python "C:\ProgLangs\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\conf \project_template\manage.py" sqlall blog theres another thread about why i've included the path, but i don't see why it

Re: Python Versions and manage.py

il.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:44 AM, djandrow <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have python 2.5 and 2.6 installed on my computer and when i try to > > run manage.py sqlall I get an error: > >

Python Versions and manage.py

Hello, I have python 2.5 and 2.6 installed on my computer and when i try to run manage.py sqlall I get an error: raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: Module use of python25.dll conflicts

Re: Dhango help

The documents have a first steps section and other sections may inspire you as well http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ hope that helps Andrew On Feb 18, 3:19 pm, "s.sudharsan siva" wrote: > Hii am new to Django we are planning to show a demo on Django on FOss >

Re: where's our poll app?

Did you create the models and is the database correctly configured in settings.py? On 10 Feb, 22:55, Tim Johnson wrote: > It's not displayed on the admin index page. > > From the Tutorial > at:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial02/#intro-tutorial02 > >

Re: Another thread about static content

I've move it just to the apache2.2 file so my conf is now: Options Indexes FollowSymLinks SetHandler python-program PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE akonline.settings PythonOption django.root /akonline PythonDebug On PythonPath

Re: Another thread about static content

So would it be best to move my project somewhere else? On 10 Feb, 21:48, Ramiro Morales <cra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, djandrow <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > I know theres alot of threads like this out t

Another thread about static content

Hello all, I know theres alot of threads like this out there but I'm still struggling. I've got a simple html template which i access through a view: the template is in C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/htdocs/akonline/ templates/blogSite and the image is then in blogSite/media then in my conf I

Re: Pretty admin pages

I believe its quite akward to create a system link in XP so I tried copying them to myproject/media file, but it didn't like that either. Should they go in the htdocs file or what? Thanks, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Pretty admin pages

Hello all, I have just set up the admin pages for my site and if i use the built in server i get the admin with the nice templates, but if I display it on mod_python I just get the plain text, which is pretty hard to work with. I have these set up in the conf: SetHandler None

Re: Keep getting NameError at /admin/

You need to remove the # from: # from django.contrib import admin # admin.autodiscover() I had the same thing earlier. Heres some more stuff about setting up the admin if you want to read it: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial02/#intro-tutorial02 On Feb 9, 11:24 pm,

Re: A quick question about slug fields

Thanks Karen On Feb 9, 4:53 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, djandrow <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I believe these days a statment like this has been depreciated: > > > post_slug = models.SlugFi

A quick question about slug fields

I believe these days a statment like this has been depreciated: post_slug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=('post_title',)) I had a look through the docs but couldn't find the answer. How can you now specify which field the slug is created from? thanks, Andrew

Re: ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings'

Thanks Karen, I've got it all working now. Regards, Andrew On 6 Feb, 21:51, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM, djandrow <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to get my django proj

ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings'

Hello, I'm trying to get my django project going on mod_python (this all on on windows XP) However when I try to get my project going I get ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named mysite.settings But I have this

Re: Where to place files on apache server.

Ok thanks, I will make sure I do that. Currently this is just on my PC so there aren't any security issues but I will make a note of it for later, thanks. Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Where to place files on apache server.

So i set it in Environment Variable then System variables [this is on windows]: PythonPath -- C:\ProgLangs\Python26 But i still get File "C:\ProgLangs\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mod_python\importer.py", line 304, in import_module return __import__(module_name, {}, {}, ['*'])" How can I

Re: Where to place files on apache server.

Thank you, i will try creating a symlink. I'm a bit confused about the PythonPath though, is the python path an environment variable or is it defined in the httpd conf or a 3rd place? I know I have: PythonPath "['C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/htdocs/myproject'] + sys.path" in the conf. But how

Re: Where to place files on apache server.

Thanks, that has helped me quite abit. But I still have one issue. When trying to look at the pages I create I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\ProgLangs\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mod_python \importer.py", line 1537, in HandlerDispatch

Where to place files on apache server.

Hello everyone, I've recently installed apache and mod_python and i've managed to run a couple of python files, so i guess its working. I've also created a view, which displays a simple hello world message. I've tested this with the django server and it works. But i'm not sure how to get this to

Mod_python

I just bought a new laptop and want to install mod_python, is there a version which is compatible with Python 2.6, I tried the 2.5 version but it wouldn't let me install that with 2.6. If there isn't a 2.5 version what would people recommend I do? Thanks. Regards, Andrew

Re: A question about spaces and passing variables...

Thanks Karen, its working fine now, Brian, I will have a look at slug fields, for now i'm trying just to get a basic site going, but then I'm going to try and come back and improve things so i will take a look at then then. Regards, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: A question about spaces and passing variables...

So after messing around a for a couple of minutes I discovered the urlencode changes About Me to About%20Me, (if you are using firefox 3 or above it will still display "About Me" in the address bar, that confused me for a while). But now if i put in: url.net/blog/About%20Me/, it doesn't match

Re: A question about spaces and passing variables...

Ok, thanks Karen, i;ll have a go with messing about. If someone else with more time could explain it to me that would be great, otherwise i'll just try playing about with it. regards, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: A question about spaces and passing variables...

Thanks Karen, how does urlencode work though? I imangine its a filter, but what does it do? regards, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

A question about spaces and passing variables...

I have a list of categories, which entries are filed into, then some can click a category link in a template and it will take them to a list of entries in that particular category. The problem is one of this categories is "About Me", what I have so far in my view is: current_entries =

Re: Passing in a value from a url

Thanks Karen, it works fine now. regards, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Passing in a value from a url

Here is my model for entry; class Entry(models.Model): entry_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) entry_date = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True) entry_title = models.CharField(max_length=70) entry_content = models.TextField(max_length=5000) entry_cat

Passing in a value from a url

Hi, I am currently trying to pass in a value from a url and the perform a query based on that, i've tried this: def category_view(request, category): current_entries = Entry.objects.filter(entry_cat=category).order_by("- entry_date") return render_to_response('blog/base.html',

Re: Template Inheritance Question

Its shared hosting so it could just be the file editor (which is built in) that they use causing it to happen if this doesn't happen to anyone else. If no one else is having the problem I would imangine that would be it. Thanks, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Template Inheritance Question

I have a template, text that extend a template base. In my text template I have; {% extends 'base.html' %} {% block content %} SOME CODE {% endblock content %} Anyway, my question is when I enter this save it then stick it on my server, it adds closing tags at the bottom; and the Doctype

Re: Strange URL behavoir/problem

No, thats why its wierd, it just says; Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL:http://www.url.net/2008/aug/ no other information at all, thts why its really strange. Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Strange URL behavoir/problem

I have the folling urls: (r'^(?P\d{4})/$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_year', archive_info), (r'^(?P\d{4})/(?P[a-z]{3})/$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_month', archive_info), and archive_info is: archive_info = { 'queryset' : Entry.objects.all(),

Re: maxlength or max_length?

Thanks, its a shared server so I will have to enquire as to what is happening concerning the python path. Regards, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group,

maxlength or max_length?

I'm currently using django Version: 1.0-final-SVN-9020 and python Version: 2.4.4, a few weeks ago (maybe a bit longer) I had to change all my maxlengths to max_length, as I believe that was a change in Django. Anyway now when i try and use manage.py validate I get: __init__() got an unexpected

Re: Creating an Archive

I solved this problem, for those who come after me, you can use: Entry.objects.dates('entry_date', 'month', order='DESC') where entry is the name of the table/model and entry_date is the name of the date field. This returns a list of months with objects in. Thanks for everyone's help, Andrew

Re: Template problem with dates(field, kind, order='ASC')

Sorry, must have forgotton that part, it just wasn't displaying anything, its was cos I was archive.datetime, when archive was already a dateime object. Now I've changed it to {{ archive }} its fine. Thanks guys, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Template problem with dates(field, kind, order='ASC')

This is probably really really obvious. I have the following statement in my views.py: archive_list = Entry.objects.dates('entry_date', 'month', order='DESC') then I have; {% for archive in archive_list %} {{ archive.datetime }} {% endfor %} in my template, i am 99.9% my problem is with {{

Re: Creating an Archive

Do i need to pass the months into the view using extra_context? Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Creating an Archive

Thanks Russ, I'm still abit confused about the first part, I understand it prints 2008-01-01, because its printing the years with entries in them, and 2008 is the only year with entries, but rather than get it to show all the years with entries I want it to show all the months with entries in. I

Re: Creating an Archive

Can no one help me with either of my questions? I'd really like to this sorted. Thanks, Andrew --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Creating an Archive

Hello, I currently have a website which I am trying to add an archive to, i currently have the following date based URLs: (r'^$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_index', archive_info), (r'^(?P\d{4})/$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_year', archive_info),

Re: URLs Syntax Error

I'm a bit confused here, what is dict, is it the same as archive infor? And what has happened to date_based.archive_index? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group,

Re: URLs Syntax Error

Can no one help me with this, its just these two lines: (r'^archive/$', date_based.archive_index,archive_info {'template_name': 'blog/archive.html'}), (r'^archive/(?Pd{4})/?$',date_based.archive_year, archive_info {'template_name': 'blog/archive.html'}), Please? Andrew

URLs Syntax Error

Hi, I have the following URLs.py from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from akonline.views import current_datetime from django.views.generic import date_based from akonline.blog.models import Category, Entry archive_info = { "queryset" : Entry.objects.all(), "date_field" :

Re: Serving static files?

You may find this useful: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/73aae22ae6d20de0/dbfe3a60be00d9bb#dbfe3a60be00d9bb You should have apache serve the static content because its much faster. The link I sent you is when I was having problems with it a few weeks ago,

Re: How to create a list of months from a date field.

I've added the following to my urls.py, i don't know if they work, my server only restarts every so often: (r'^archive/$', date_based.archive_index, archive_info {'template_name': 'blog/archive.html'}), (r'^archive/(?Pd{4})/?$', date_based.archive_year, archive_info {'template_name':

Re: How to create a list of months from a date field.

I've had alook through http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/generic_views/ but i'm still not clear on what to do. I might be being a bit think but could someone explain it to me. Regards, Andrew On Aug 30, 5:59 pm, Dmitry Dzhus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > djandrow wro

How to create a list of months from a date field.

I'm basically trying to create a standard archive function. I have the following field in my models:entry_date = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True) I understand dynamic urls and templates and things, so i don't need help with that. What i need to know is how can i get a list of months

Dynamic URL

I'm trying to create a situation where you can bring up all the blog entries in a category through the URL. I've got this in my urls.py: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from akonline.views import current_datetime urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^test/$', 'address.blog.views.blog'),

Re: Serving static content using Apache

Managed to get it working, thanks everyone. I guess the problem was CSS was missing from locationMatch --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Serving static content using Apache

I've added this, #css has been added to the end SetHandler None but still no luck, however if i look at the pages statically on the server rather than having apache serve them the CSS is used so now I know that the CSS works and i guess its in the right place, although the relative and