How can I let users log in to my Django site just by clicking a link? I send out weekly emails asking my users to update information, and I would love to let them log in just by clicking a link. I have seen this on other sites (like Squarespace), but has anyone done this with Django before? ...
I have a query that orders a table according to a particular field. The table is related to one competition, so knowing the position is important. As the table can grow to have a lot of rows, I have paginate it (25 rows per page) using generic views, but the problem I've got is to present the numbered position on the table. This informa...
I'm trying to do something similar to this, in Django. This is part of the page of Anna: Pos NickName Points --- --------- ------ 1 The best 1000 ... 35 Roger 550 36 Anna 545 37 Paul 540 It's a chart showing the scoring system, and it intends to show the first position, as well as the relat...
While developing a Django app deployed on Apache mod_wsgi I found that in case of multithreading (Python threads; mod_wsgi processes=1 threads=8) Python won't use all available processors. With the multiprocessing approach (mod_wsgi processes=8 threads=1) all is fine and I can load my machine at full. So the question: is this Python beh...
I'm running an an ubuntu vm - django is running under apache2 behind nginx I need to setup crossdomain.xml - currently getting 'access denied' etc when trying to play flash movs whats the best way to set this up? ...
I have a form with an email property. When using {{ form.email }} in case of some validation error, django still renders the previous value in the input tag's value attribute: <input type="text" id="id_email" maxlength="75" class="required" value="[email protected]" name="email"> I want to render the input tag myself (to add some javascr...
I would like to make a queryset on a generic view in this way: category_info = { 'queryset' : ModelObject.objects.filter(category=category_id) } where the category_id will be stated on the URL (r'^category/(?P<category_id>\d+)$', 'object_list', category_info ) But I don't know how to take the data from the URL and pass it ...
I have a Dynamic Form in forms. How can I pass a argument from my view when I instantiate my form. something like form = DynamicForm("some string argument") This is the form I have: class DynamicForm(Form): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(DynamicForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) for item in range(5): ...
I'm trying to debug a Python Django app. I've got additional fields being added to a model. I've tracked this down to one method: django.db.models.options.add_field() The only place this method is called is: django.db.models.fields.init.contribute_to_class() def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name): self.set_attributes_from_name...
I read this guide about serving static media with Django during development. I noticed that MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT were not used in this. Why? What's the difference? I tried doing it with MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT, and got weird results. ...
Maybe i'm missing something but i'm looking to add a float number, something like this: {%floatnumber|add:3.4%} Filter add round my result so I don't want to write my filter, but if is the only way, i'll copy add filter Now i'm doing this: def addf(value, arg): """Adds the arg to the value.""" return float(value) + float(ar...
Hi. Say we have models from django.db import models class AutomaticModel(models.Model): others = models.ManyToManyField('OtherModel') class ManualModel(models.Model): others = models.ManyToManyField('OtherModel', through='ThroughModel') class OtherModel(models.Model): pass class ThroughModel(models.Model): pblm = mo...
I'm writing a simple auth system to login (and logout) users. The username is an email address, which looks up an email field. I'm using: user = User.objects.get(email__exact=email) # if user obj exists if user: # if authenticate if authenticate(user, email, password): # create session request.session['user'] = ...
I'm trying to add basic Apache name/password authentication to a running Django site. I've following the example here. I've created an .htpasswd file and have the following in httpd.conf: WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ann/webapps/django/domesday.wsgi <Directory /home/ann/webapps/apache2> AuthType Basic AuthName "Authentication Required" Auth...
def SiteAdminForm(model_cls, *args, **kwargs): class MerchantAdminForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: exclude = ('external_links', 'published', 'logo','image_zip_file',) model = model_cls def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(MerchantAdminForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) ...
I'm just getting started using Nose and Nosetests and my tests are failing because Nose can't see the environmental variables. So far, the errors: AttributeError: 'Settings' object has no attribute 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE' I fixed this by exporting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE from .bash_profile export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="settings" No...
I have a decent sized django project and when I originally built it I kept all the apps in an apps folder under the project root. project/apps/articles, project/apps/video etc. After a while I decided to move to best practices and make them more reusable so I moved them into their own separate apps then symlink'd them to my python path....
I want to run multiple facebook applications from a Django project project\ settings.py fbapp1\ 'needs FACEBOOK_API_KEY=KEY1 fbapp2\ 'needs FACEBOOK_API_KEY=KEY2 For Facebook authentication and APIs to work pyfacebook middleware uses conf.settings to get the FACEBOOK_API_KEY for each request and adds a Facebook object to each re...
The table django_admin_log is useful to monitor the actions of users in the admin. Right now, I can achieve that by querying the database directly. Is there a built-in functionality where I can view the table django_admin_log through Django's admin for all users? ...
If I want my account holders to be able to have their own sub-domains and even their own domains altogether. Using NGINX as my proxy server, should I create domains for each one in my NGINX conf and have my clients point their domains there or is there reasons why this would be bad? Also, if I do that, how can I pass account-specific (ac...