django-views

django templates sysntax error

Is there any problem with the syntax in the following code,there is a error as Invalid block tag: 'else' {%ifequal chat_profile 1 %} {% extends "chatprofile/chat_profile1.html" %} {% else %} {% extends "chatprofile/chat_profile.html" %} {% endif %} ...

A question on editing a seach view in Django

Hello I am working in django how to use a search form from Django documents site. Here are some information below. Now, is there a way I can produce a part search for title? For example if I wanted to search for a book called "Apress", But instead of typing the whole word I just wrote "ap" to get Apress. Is there a way how to achieve thi...

Why does django page cms get_absolute_url return an empty string?

I am having issues with get_absolute_url in my django templates when using django page cms. It returns an empty string and does not link to my required page. I have the following Models, URLs templates and views Models class Body(models.Model): ... url = models.SlugField(unique=True, help_text='---') urls (r'^news/', include('news...

Django response query

What would be the correct statements for the below two.I want to send the base variable to my template which keeps varying but there will be an error if i send {'form': form,'msg' : msg} in the second statement return render_to_response('chatlist/newchat.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request,{'form': form,'msg' : msg}),extra_co...

Django - How do I redirect ie6?

Hi. I want to send a user to a page on my site that prompts him to upgrade to a more recent browser if they are using ie6 or lower. How can this be achieved in Django? ...

django import a view function

I have a django application xxx which does a number of things. I also have a sepaerate application yyy. Which wants to call one of the functions of xxx. Is there a way for me to import the functions? For example, in yyy can i say from toplevel.xxx import doit Or what is the best approach, I dont want to duplicate code. ...

A Django seach form that I cannot make it work

Hello I have been recently working on Django search forms recently and have tired to edit one myself. Here is a search form that is supposed to find Clients. However When I type in a clients name, it does not display that client's name. So I am wondering What I am doing wrong. #model.py class Client(models.Model): comp...

Problems rendering a view with tidy (Django + Apache mod_wsgi)

When running under the in-built development server, all runs fine. However, when running under mod_wsgi in Apache, the following code (a replacement method for django.shortcuts.render_to_response) causes an internal server error: # Tidy and render def render_tidy_response(*args, **kwargs): httpresponse_kwargs = { ...

Django database learn itself

Hey guys. I have a system that relies on other models but want to make it a little more open-ended as my users demand a bit more sometimes. currently for arguments sake I have 2 authors in an Author model. john, james When a user adds a book, and the Author is not available, how do I add a other field in the form, that if selected, ...

How do you create a view that returns the next object in a given list? code included

I have a view that displays object information when the correct URL is provided however I would like to create a similar view that returns url information from the record that is located next. So in essence take the info from my first view, list/order it in some way preferably by date and return the records located next and previous in ...

How do you limit get_next_by_FOO inside a django view? code included

I have used get_next_by_FOO inside my view to display an absolute url for the following item within a set of records however when it gets to the end of the query set an error is raised. how do I stop my view from raising this error and instead just outputting some html letting me know that it has come to the end of the set? All help i...

Having a problem displaying a manytomany fields

Hello, I seem to have a problem displaying work orders. in my app. The clients does not have the same problem so why does the work orders not show up. Actually it is as almost as a black space appears rather than text that should appear from my database. The problem seems to be because work orders have a many-to-many field. If I have {{...

CSV only taking first record

I have been working on my CSV upload for a little while now, and I finally got it working (sort of haha) As it stands right now, my code will only pull the first record from the CSV file, and I have been looking at it too long, and Im sure I am missing something. Here is my views.py @login_required def importClient(request): print "i...

Why is my Django view being hit twice with every page view?

I can't seem to find the problem for the life of me. Very simply, I have a database object that I'm pulling from the database, incrementing it's "views" by one, and saving. My view display's the incremented value, but then my logs show that the value is incremented AGAIN. g=Game.objects.filter(slug=slug).distinct()[0] g.views += 1 g.sav...

Django Can't Find My Templates

I'm running Python 2.6.1 and Django 1.2.1 on Windows XP SP3. I'm using JetBrains PyCharm 1.0 to create and deploy my Django apps. I'm relatively inexperienced with Python, and I'm starting to learn Django by following along with "Writing Your First Django App" from the web site - the poll application. I'm stuck on part 3. Everything ...