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flaccid: show us the code

trying to get django and mamp to work together on leopard for development. anyone know of a better guide than the first results on google?

don't use mamp, everyone who's come on irc with it has had loads of trouble

using runserver ?

ok

andym here is my code http://dpaste.com/72143/

how can you access a model field object, given a model?

I mean the base class, I want to inspect the properties of the field

obj._meta.get_field_by_name('foo')[0]

mattmcc: thanks

im doing a widget = Widget.objects.get(unique_hash=hash) and then later on a success i do extra_context = { 'widget' : widget.values() } and it says 'Widget' object has no attribute 'values' . where am i going wrong on that i can't just do widget = Widget.objects.get(unique_hash=hash).values() because i need to use the object for another query on a related model?

flaccid: values() is a method of QuerySet, get() returns a single model.

Or were you thinking of the values method of a dictionary, which a model isn't?

right well i'm wondering how i should be doing this..

i query one model to get a result and then use that result object to query a related model and i need to export the values to the template

Which values?

the first query's values, but if i do widget = Widget.objects.get(unique_hash=hash).values() i obviously can't use this for the second query

AlexanderSupertr: Says nothing thee

AlexanderSupertr: there*

Navies: i thought they talk abt modifying migrations there

basically you ahve to modify migrations by hand in that case

have*

that was the default method before v0.5

Navies: here the eg. http://dpaste.com/72149/

but why wouldn't you just use --auto??

mattmcc could you point in me in the right direction

flaccid: the first query will return a single dictionary containing the values of that one widget [which, by the way, is an annoying name to use because it makes djangoites think of form widgets] - how do you expect to be able to use this to query a related model?

flaccid: it's hard for people to point you in the direction when you haven't clearly explained where you're going ;)

i'll rename it to web widget then

is this the actual name, or are you just confuscating the model name you are really using?

the model is called Widget and i have WidgetHit, i want to query Widget with a condition then query the related model WidgetHit with that result object ie. a widget hit has a widget id. then i want to put the values of widget in context for template

flaccid: you mean you want to put the widget instance into the context?

well the widget values for use in templating

flaccid: if you just pass the Widget instance, you'll have access to all it's fields

yes but then how do i get that instances values to put in context for template

flaccid: uh, {{ widget.your_field_name }} ?

SmileyChris yes

flaccid: what do you mean "that instance's values"?

so are you saying in view, i can do widget = Widget.objects.get(unique_hash=hash) extra_context = { 'widget_foo' : widget.bar_field } ?

question - when i'm importing a javascript in my base.html, i use a relative src, i.e. src="media/js/global.js" -- i extend base.html in another template myprofile.html (which is at url /myprofile) but now looks for the source at /myprofile/media/js/global.js - why is it changing the relative path?

flaccid: no, i'm saying you do extra_context = { 'widget' : widget }, then in the template you do {{ widget.bar_field }}

mib_mib: because you're using a relative path

doesnt like that SmileyChris, let me get the error

mib_mib: so don't do that ;)

smileychris: so it isn't relative always to the root?

mib_mib: no, that wouldn't be relative

weird, okay

i don't like hardcoding urls in there though

mib_mib: so use {{ MEDIA_URL }}

SmileyChris: ah i like that - do i need to include anything to use that? RequestContext?

mib_mib: perhaps you want to put a / at the front

mib_mib: it's in request contexts by default

okay nice

andym: hmmm yeah there isn't one there...maybe that will solve it as well...

mib_mib: i prefer to leave MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL for uploaded content and use custom STATIC_ROOT/URL settings for my static content

SmileyChris ah my bad! the problem was that i was trying iterate through it with a for template tag in the templates because before i was using values() . sorry to waste your time there..

interesting - yeah i have nginx hosting the static content anyway - you just like to keep them seperated? any point to that?

or just keep it organized/

mib_mib: i prefer two different urls, so you could move static elsewhere if you wanted

interesting....yeah nice

Can anyone tell me how to customize users interface, based on logged in user?

like Facebook, or my Space

I mean just the idea of approaching it

{% if user.is_authenticated %}

write a view that does what you want, but please tell me you aren't doing that to the admin interface

waleed: you can put a foreign key relationship on the User model from any of your custom models

I see, and dont worry, no I am not doing that to the admin interface

ok im all good now, except for the fact that with the .save() it is still saving two records - one with an id and one without

{% if user.is_authenticated %} : sorry, pasted at wrong place was meant for other window

i just have many users, where there will be default applications, but once they log in, their personal applications should appears

Waleed: check if they are logged in, if they are logged in, get their applications in the view, and pass them to the template

Guys, cant find info on getting the model_name of an object help

I don't know if it's "model_name" but you know what i mean, likely a meta option

Ok. Cool, thanks guys

I'll try this

here's the full explanation of the issue i was trying to explain on here the other day. it may make more sense if you just read it like this: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/bro...

joshuajonah: <object>.__class__

thank you point9repeating, made my night

was killing me

joshuajonah: np!, you can use isinstance for a boolean check as well

wait, can you give me a doc or a quick explaination on that?

point9repeating: ?

Is there some plugin or something that allows an admin to modify CSS file colors etc via /admin/?

only if you change your CSS files to be served by Django...

Well, you could store them in a table but what you need is the code coloring and fixed width fonts in admin

(though they're eminently cachable :)

Plenty of JS color pickers out there.

dahunter3: you don't mean to change Admin CSS... just CSS in general?

FunkyBob: Just CSS in general. I was looking at something like django-css that allows CSS compilers... but nothing seems to integrate it into the DB and Django admin.

Is enabling site-wide caching as simple as adding the two middleware classes in the right place and setting CACHE_BACKEND to an appropriate path?

The cache directory I specified has been created, so I assume something is working, but there are no files in it.

joshuajonah: isinstance(<object>, <class>) returns Boolean

(this is filesystem caching, by the way)

im doing a save() and its saving the record with a null id, what could i have done wrong ?