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Any framework for PHP, as effective as Django for Python?

I am using python with django. There I can simply make form from models and also it had builtin Admin. I am eager to know corresponding framework for PHP with all this facilities. I have encountered lot some similar questions like this, but they had not compared the frameworks with django. Experts Please Suggest. ...

Form is not running after adding fields in it.

Hie friends, I made a form using the class forms.py it was running smoothly, but next time when I added two new fields in that forms.py class then on executing the command "python manage.py syncdb " it gives me the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 11, in <module> execute_manager(settings)...

Using Django ORM, how to perform this INNER JOIN type of query ?

Hi, I have been looking for an answer for this problem. I have a schema with these models Users. Questions. Answers given by users to a question. You understand there are 2 foreign keys in an answer: One foreign key to Question Another one to User I want to get a list of rows containing the commons questions answered by 2 users,...

Outputting PDF with Django as attachment and reload

Hi there, I´m using django to generate a pdf and return the response as an attachment in the view. response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/pdf') response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=somefilename.pdf' Similar to the way described in the doc (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-pdf/#write-your...

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, ...

Django and MongoDB Engine - Problem with object IDs!

Hi folks, I'm using Django 1.3beta and django-mongodb-engine for database backend. Problem is when I save an object with a pk set I get this error: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.pyc in get_prep_lookup(self, lookup_type, value) 290 return value 291 elif lookup_type i...

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 ...

PHP front-end for installing Django

A simple question: Is this possible? Is it worth the time looking into it? ...

django: mod_wsgi fails to open log file inside project directory

I am trying to deploy my project using mod_wsgi. Unfortunately I get: [Wed Oct 27 15:32:33 2010] [error] [client 10.13.3.64] Exception in WSGI handler: [Wed Oct 27 15:32:33 2010] [error] [client 10.13.3.64] Traceback (most recent call last): [Wed Oct 27 15:32:33 2010] [error] [client 10.13.3.64] File "/home/project/project/wsgi/proje...

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...

Basics for creating a Wiki-like web application?

Hi folks, I need to implement wiki-like functionality within a website. Problem is that I am not fully aware of what it might require and therefore predict a long set of refactoring till I actually nail a good version. I tried looking for some guidelines, but haven't found much. Any ideas? Help would be wonderful ...

django site administration (entering fixtures data)

I have a django site. a snippet of myapp/models.py looks like this: class Continent(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=128, db_index=True, unique=True) class GeographicRegion(models.Model): continent = models.ForeignKey(Continent, null=False) name = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=False) When I am a...

Why doesn't Django enforce my unique_together constraint as a form.ValidationError instead of throwing an exception?

This is a follow-up to this question. If I don't explicitly check the unique_together constraint in the clean_title() function, django throws an exception: IntegrityError at /journal/journal/4 duplicate key value violates unique constraint "journal_journal_owner_id_key" Request Method: POST Request URL: http://local...

A good way to make Django geolocation aware? - Django/Geolocation

Hi folks, I would like to be able to associate various models (Venues, places, landmarks) with a City/Country. But I am not sure what some good ways of implementing this would be. I'm following a simple route, I have implemented a Country and City model. Whenever a new city or country is mentioned it is automatically created. Unfo...

Adding South to Django project, development & production

Adding South to an existing Django project. I have it installed on both the development machine and the "production" server. I've done the following on the development machine, then: added South app to settings.py, python manage.py syncdb python manage.py convert_to_south myproject.myapp then changed some models, then python manage...

How to include annotation in JSON string?

I've got a view that returns a list of shipments encoded as JSON... def get_new_shipments(request): # ... shipments = Shipment.objects.filter(filter).exclude(**exclude).order_by(order) \ .annotate(num_bids=Count('bids'), min_bid=Min('bids__amount'), max_bid=Max('bids__amount')) return json_response(shipments) def js...

Handling presentation logic in Django templates.

The description below is heavily simplified - it's only one part of a bigger problem that we are tackling but the innards can be safely left out for this question. Suppose we have the following models: - class Item(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=150) value = models.DecimalField(max_digits=12,decimal_places=2)...

Render CSS in Django- n00b question

I am trying to get the css sheet to load on my dev comp. It is in the media directory as "media/base.css" In my base/base.html template, I have: <link href="media/base.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> I found http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/static-files/ but that didn't fix it. Any ideas? ...

A question about Django and Google Apps

Just wondering about this, is it possible to use Django with the Google Apps API's? I have a small organization that uses Google Apps Education Edition. I was thinking about making a small intranet using Django, and I would love if the first page they saw when they logged in had a few widgets with their email, calendar, maybe docs. I loo...

extension like django-evolution

Hello everybody, i am in search for a extension that is similar to django_-volution. The requirement is to alter the database, whitout deleting the wohle data. I don't know, but for me, this is something so ordinary - doesn't django have a built-in function like that? django_evolution is still in working progress and has some bugs, so...