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Conventional Approaches for Passing Data to Back-End?

I'm fairly new to web development, so please pardon the painfully newbie question that's about to follow. My computer science class group and I are developing a web application for class, which is built in Python (under Django) and uses jQuery on the front end. It's primarily an Ajax-ified application, and passing data from the backend ...

Alternate widgets and logic for ManyToManyField with Django forms

In my Django project, I have a simple ticket system. When creating a ticket, certain users have the ability to assign the ticket to other users, and to email the ticket to other users as well (this is used as an FYI for those users, so they're aware of the ticket, even though it's not assigned to them.) At the moment, the form for addin...

Django and Drupal

Dear Experts, Since Django is a web development framework and Django is a CMS. Is it possible to use them both together instead of a preferred database on Django like apache? Maybe that question isn't clear enough. Is it possible to use Django and Drupal simultaneously on the server side to provide a better web development solution? ...

How can I validate form data using Google App Engine?

I have no idea about this. ...

Django's makemessages creates a lot of fuzzy entries

Each time I added some strings to a Django project, I run "django-admin.py makemessages -all" to generate .PO files for all locales. The problem is even I only added 5 news strings, the makemessages command will mark 50 strings as fuzzy in .PO files which brings a lot of extra work for our locale maintainers. This also makes the entire...

Django 5 star Reviews

Hello All, I am new to programming and I just jumped in to Django and I need a bit of help. I downloaded the generic reviews model off of Google code and I have no clue how to implement it. Can anyone pass along some guidance on how to make this work with a 5 star ratings system? I would appreciate it. Thanks. ...

Can I use Django templatetags on Google App Engine?

My Django site has many templatetags directories, can I use Django templatetags on Google App Engine? ...

How do you set the sitemap priority for flatpages in django?

I have a site with about 60,000 pages that are getting placed in the sitemap, and which have a priority of 0.3. These are all really long pages that are rich in keywords. I also have a few pages (like the about page), that need high priority, but which I've implemented with the django flatpages framework. Is it possible for pages creat...

Django-registration and ReCaptcha integration - how to pass the user's IP

New to django and trying to setup django-registration 0.8 with recaptcha-client. I followed the advice posted in the answer to this question. I used the custom form and custom backend from that post and the widget and field from this tutorial. My form is displaying properly with the recaptcha widget but when I submit it throws the error...

Some problem with postgres_psycopg2

Last night I upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 10.04 from 9.10. It seems to have cluttered my python module. Whenever I run python manage.py I get this error: ImportError: No module named postgresql_psycopg2.base Can any one throw any light on this? ...

some register.inclusion_tag error in my code using django

my helloworld_tags: from django import template register = template.Library() def show_profile(): return {"eee": '333'} register.inclusion_tag("b.html")(show_profile) my view: def b(request): return render_to_response('b.html') my html: {% load helloworld_tags%} dsad {{ eee }} but only show 'dsad' ,not show 'dsad333'...

How do I send an email in Django with a certain mimetype?

MYMESSAGE = "<div>Hello</div><p></p>Hello" send_mail("testing",MYMESSAGE,"[email protected]",['[email protected]'],fail_silently=False) However, this message doesn't get the HTML mime type when it is sent. In my outlook, I see the code... ...

Django Fileupload With Email

I am trying to attach a file with a contact form. My code looks like this for the form and view: if request.method == 'POST': form = UploadCVForm(request.POST, request.FILES) if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass subject = "CV Sent from BiztechAfrica" sender = form.cleaned_data['email'] message ...

django update object

How do I run an update and select statement on the same queryset rather than having to do 2 queries, one to select the object and one to update the object? The equivalent in SQL would be something like: update my_table set field_1 = 'some value' where pk_field = some_value ...

Django email attachment filetype limit

How can I limit the type of files of the email attachments sent by my contact form to Doc, Docx, PDF? ...

Displaying the contents (rather than saving) of an uploaded file with Django

How can I have a form with a FileField, where the uploaded file will not be saved but instead its text contents will be extracted and displayed? ...

Django & PayPal integration

I am designing a website in Python (using Django), and I need to sell things through it. Can somebody help me with the source code to integrate the paypal-pro (do-direct payment) or else paypal-standard (express checkout)? ...

Django populate select field based on model query

I have the following model class DNS(models.Model): domain = models.ForeignKey(Domain) host_start = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=True, null=True) type = models.SmallIntegerField(max_length=1, default=0, choices=DNS_CHOICE) value = models.SmallIntegerField(max_length=3, default=0, blank=True, null=True) ip =...

Django - Empty session data in ajax requests

Hi guys, I have an ajax view where I want to set a session variable like such: def upload(request, *args, **kwargs): request.session['test'] = 'test' request.session.modified = True print request.session.items() I have another normal view something like this: def advertise(request): print request.session.ite...

Valid Dates in AppEngine forms (Beginner)

In AppEngine, I have a form that prompts a user for a date. The problem is that when the clicks enter there is an error: "Enter a Valid Date" How do I make my Form accept (for example) %d-%b-%Y as the date format? Is there a more elegant way to accomplish this? # Model and Forms class Task(db.Model): name=db.StringProperty() due...