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WISiWYG with uploading pictures: Django way

Hello! I'm trying to integrate TinyMCE or CKEditor into Django, but I have no idea how to manage uploading pictures. I've been searching and found some django apps, but they won't work with my Django version (1.1.1), buggy and not maintained. Maybe I missed something? Can you please give me a step-by-step guide how to add WYSIWYG with u...

Django store regular expression in DB which then gets evaluated on page

Hi, I want to store a number of url patterns in my django model which a user can provide parameters to which will create a url. For example I might store these 3 urls in my db where %s is the variable parameter provided by the user: www.thisissomewebsite.com?param=%s www.anotherurl/%s/ www.lastexample.co.uk?param1=%s&fixedparam=2 A...

Writing a custom auth system (like the default django auth system), use it to generate tables in DB

Hay all, I've been reading up on middleware and how to use it with a context object. I want to write a simple middleware class which i can use on my own applications, it will essentially be a cut down version of the django one. The problem i seem to have is that if i have INSTALLED_APPS = ('django.contrib.my_auth') in the settings fi...

How to determine the maximum integer the model can handle?

"What is the biggest integer the model field that this application instance can handle?" We have sys.maxint, but I'm looking for the database+model instance. We have the IntegerField, the SmallIntegerField, the PositiveSmallIntegerField, and a couple of others beside. They could all vary between each other and each database type. I fo...

Django query: Count and Group BY

I have a query that I'm trying to figure the "django" way of doing it: I want to take the last 100 calls from Call. Which is easy: calls = Call.objects.all().order_by('-call_time')[:100] However the next part I can't find the way to do it via django's ORM. I want to get a list of the call_types and the number of calls each one has WITH...

Foreign keys in django admin list display

If a django model contains a foreign key field, and if that field is shown in list mode, then it shows up as text, instead of displaying a link to the foreign object. Is it possible to automatically display all foreign keys as links instead of flat text? (of course it is possible to do that on a field by field basis, but is there a gen...

Loading fixtures in django unit tests

I'm trying to start writing unit tests for django and I'm having some questions about fixtures: I made a fixture of my whole project db (not certain application) and I want to load it for each test, because it looks like loading only the fixture for certain app won't be enough. I'd like to have the fixture stored in /proj_folder/fixtur...

How can I create prettier fixtures with manage.py dumpdata?

I'm trying to get my Django fixtures printed in a prettier way. I've outputting the fixtures: python manage.py dumpdata >> fixture_app.json This creates a file with 1000's of characters all on one line. When I try to view the file with my Text Editor( TextMate ), the Editor hangs. Is there anyway that the fixtures can be exported ...

Django: CharField with fixed length, how?

Hi everybody, I wold like to have in my model a CharField with fixed length. In other words I want that only a specified length is valid. I tried to do something like volumenumber = models.CharField('Volume Number', max_length=4, min_length=4) but it gives me an error (it seems that I can use both max_length and min_length at the sam...

Django - Problem with models/manager to organise a query...

Hi, I have an application to count the number of access to an object for each website in a same database. class SimpleHit(models.Model): """ Hit is the hit counter of a given object """ content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType) object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField() content_object = generic.GenericForeign...

Django queries: Count number of objects with FK to model instance

This should be easy but for some reason I'm having trouble finding it. I have the following: App(models.Model): ... Release(models.Model): date = models.DateTimeField() App = models.ForeignKey(App) ... How can I query for all App objects that have at least one Release? I started typing: App.objects.all().annotate(re...

Django crash without message

Hi there, I have a Django-project which was running fine, until I made "some changes" I don't remember exactly. Since that point, on every request, my project crashes silently: $ ./manage.py runserver -v2 Validating models... 0 errors found Django version 1.1.1, using settings 'src.settings' Development server is running at http://12...

How do I track images embedded in HTML?

Hi, I'd like to track the views/impressions of images on web pages, but still allow the images to be embedded in HTML, like in the "img src="http://mysite.com/upload/myimage.jpg"/" element. I know in Windows I can write a handler for ".jpg" so the URL will actually trigger a handling function instead of loading the images from disk. Is...

Profile page getting acess to user object in Django

I have a requirement where I have to register users first via email. So, I went with django-registraton and I managed to integrate tat module into my django project. After a successful login, the page redirects to 'registration/profile.html'. I need to get access to the user object which was used in the authentication. I need this objec...

Django and ImageField Question

Hello I have a such model: Foo (models.Model): slug = models.SlugField(unique=True) image = models.ImageField(upload_to='uploads/') I want to do two things with this: First of all, I want my image to be forced to resize to a specific width and height after the upload. I have tried this reading the documentation but seems to g...

Django File upload size limit

I have a form in my django app where users can upload files. How can i set a limit to the uploaded file size so that if a user uploads a file larger than my limit the form won't be valid and it will throw an error? ...

Django and project/application organization

I'm just beginning to learn Django and am a little confused on the best way to layout and organize a project and applications. From my understanding, a project is your site as a whole and applications are the pieces that make up that site? For a first project I am making a small e-commerce type site which will have users, items, etc... ...

Cannot turn off autocommit in a script using the Django ORM

I have a command line script that uses the Django ORM and MySQL backend. I want to turn off autocommit and commit manually. For the life of me, I cannot get this to work. Here is a pared down version of the script. A row is inserted into testtable every time I run this and I get this warning from MySQL: "Some non-transactional change...

Unit Testing a Django Form with a FileField

I have a form like: #forms.py from django import forms class MyForm(forms.Form): title = forms.CharField() file = forms.FileField() #tests.py from django.test import TestCase from forms import MyForm class FormTestCase(TestCase) def test_form(self): upload_file = open('path/to/file', 'r') post_dict = {'ti...

Django ManyToMany join query

I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't for the life of me find any documentation explaining how to do this. How do I get the results of a ManyToMany field inside a join as opposed to doing this: {% for tag in article.tags.all %} Which results in an extra query? What I'd like to do is fetch all related tags when I retrieve the in...