I want to use GeoDjango to do basic location searches. Specifically I want to give the search function a ZIP code/city/county and find all the ZIP codes/cities/counties within 5mi, 10mi, 20mi, etc. I found the following paragraph in the documentation: Using a geographic coordinate system may introduce complications for the develope...
Django-CMS custom plugins and navigation extenders allow to create any content HTML in some part of the HTML . However I frequently have some JavaScripts required for some specific plugins, like a photo album viewer plugin that requires a JS in the . My current solution is to let the user specify a specific template for that. I could do...
Greetings, Does anyone know what are the required fields to have Django send emails when a "500 Internal Server Error" happend? I am hosting my project on Dreamhost and for the life of me I can't get Django to send emails. What are the required fields when hosting on Dreamhost? ...
I create a keyword filter in django My views.py #.............. if request.method == 'POST': form = FilterContentForm(request.POST) else: form = FilterContentForm() if len(keyword_dict)!= 0 and keyword_dict['customer_type']: list_customer = filter(keyword_dict['customer_typ...
Say, there is a Page that has many blocks associated with it. And each block needs custom rendering, saving and data. Simplest it is, from the code point of view, to define different classes (hence, models) for each of these models. Simplified as follows: class Page(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=64) class Block...
I wish to get an object in the following fashion: Collection.objects.get(name='name', type='library', owner=owner, parent=parent) Unfortunately type is a keyword as thus creates the following error: KeyError at /forms/create_library type Is there a way to disambiguate the meaning of the word type to allow me to specify a field of t...
I want to alter properties of a model field inherited from a base class. The way I try this below does not seem to have any effect. Any ideas? def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(SomeModel, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) f = self._meta.get_field('some_field') f.blank = True f.help_text = 'This is optional' ...
I am working on a site currently (first one solo) and went to go make an index page. I have been attempting to follow django best practices as I go, so naturally I go search for this but couldn't a real standard in regards to this. I have seen folks creating apps to serve this purpose named various things (main, home, misc) and have see...
I'm trying to use get_or_create for some fields in my forms, but I'm getting a 500 error when I try to do so. One of the lines looks like this: customer.source = Source.objects.get_or_create(name="Website") The error I get for the above code is: Cannot assign "(<Source: Website>, False)": "Customer.source" must be a "Source" ins...
Hello. I have view which in some cases redirects user to another addres. How can I redirect user, with additional variables (not GET, beacause that variable can be long text)? Currently I'm using HttpResponseRedirect. Cheers. ...
Here is my setup. I am using Django version 1.1.1 on Dreamhost, Python 2.4. The problem I am having is whenever I create a simple app and also have admin.autodiscover() enabled, Django will throw an exception. My setup: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from testapp.views import HelloWorld from django.contrib import admin admin.a...
I get the following error when instantiating a Django form with a the constructor overriden: __init__() got multiple values for keyword argument 'collection_type' The __init__() function (shown below) is exactly as written this but with # code replaced with my logic. Asside from that I am essentially overriding the form's (which is a ...
When I use the Django test.client and I do something like: class MyTestCase(TestCase): def test_this(self): c = self.client response = c.get('/') assert False, response.context['name'] I get an error: assert False, response.context['name'] TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable My only guess is ...
I'm new to Django (and databases in general), and I'm not sure how to structure the following. The sources of data I'll have for my site are: a blog for a few different games: a high score list user-created levels If I were storing the data in ordinary files, I'd just have one file for each of the above. In Django, ideally (I think...
I'm trying to redirect a user to a newly created object's object.get_absolute_url() after saving a form. I'm not using a generic view, so I can't use the post_save_redirect argument. The relevant portion of the view is like so: if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('story_detail', args=(story.user, ...
Issue: Beta site is pulling from primary site templates folder, below is a skeleton structure of the site folder structure - store is the hosted project dir for DOMAIN.com beta/store goes to beta.DOMAIN.com the site is hosted Dir Structure Project/ apache site.wsgi beta apache site.wsgi logs store [APP...
I'm looking for a safe method of triggering DEBUG for INTERNAL_IPS requests on a django production server without requiring the alteration of a settings.py file. Mainly to get the toolbar going for some designers to check issues on live data/media, but without relying on them to reset the settings once they have finished. Similar to thi...
class FriendshipManager(models.Manager): def are_friends(self, user1, user2): if self.filter(from_user=user1, to_user=user2).count() > 0: return True if self.filter(from_user=user2, to_user=user1).count() > 0: return True return False and i found count() so ...
I have a set of Django models that are used in two databases (i.e. syncdb was run against two databases from the same app). Both databases are for production services (one database contains on-demand "sandbox" build information and the other contains nightly build information). The problem is that I want to have one Django app that dis...
Hello everyone, I've been trying to get some Ajax stuff to work in my Django application, but it has been difficult because for some reason syntax and type errors are not causing a server crash and are failing silently. How could this be? JavaScript (jQuery): add_foo = function() { var numfoos = $("div#foos_container > div.foo").l...