Has anyone run into an idea of a "settings app" for a django project?
It's a set of application variables set by an administrator (not developer, so settings.py fails) using admin panel.
Are there any apps ready to use?
edit I probably didn't state my question clear. I don't mean editing the things like connection settings, rather things like "file size limit".
The question is how would you store the settings.
Cause... if you store the settings in the database it will be troublesome since most of the code will already be initialized (using the settings before that) before you have a database connection.
If it's the filesystem that means you're going to have to include a Python file that's being modified by your webserver which sounds like a huge security risk to me.
So... in my opinion, it could be done but I would vote against it since it's dangerous. If things should be configurable from the web, implement that in the app :)
It sounds a bit like you're asking "how does an administrator change the settings (like database connection parameters) without changing settings.py?"
If your admin isn't familiar enough with python to change the settings.py file directly, you might consider giving the admin a simpler file to edit, perhaps a config file that you loaded from settings.py. Then all your admin has to do is edit the config file and restart the server.
This has an added benefit that you can limit the config file to only those parameters which your admin would need to mess with (like database connection parameters).
(Another option would be to get a better admin ...)
There is a very nice app that does this, called django-dbsettings. The official repo hasn't been updated in years, but I have an up-to-date fork on my github page.