A list of links and tips that I want to remember about Django. A list which looks suspiciously like an index of b-list.org.

Currently Really Interesting

• Django Signals

Accessing Settings

    from django.conf import settings

    print settings.VALUE_IN_SETTINGS_PY

User Model & Authentication

• http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/06/06/django-tips-extending-user-model

•  user.get_profile()  will return the linked profile object

• User Registration

• User Login middleware

AJAX Integration

• http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/02/django-and-ajax

• http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/31/django-tips-simple-ajax-example-part-1

• http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/08/05/django-tips-simple-ajax-example-part-2

• YUI-based AutoComplete

Quicklinks into the Official Documentation

• Request & Reponse, specifically querydict

• Test Django Apps

• Model examples

• Generic Relations

• Sending email

Admin Customization

• Extending the Admin Interface

> I would like to change the template ( or change behaviour ) for the > change list view, but only for one model. Can anyone tell me how one > could find out in the template which model we are representing? Or > alternately, where in the admin code one might add extra variables to > render to the template?

When Django renders the list, it looks for the following templates, in order, and uses the first one it finds:

admin/appname/modelname/change_list.html admin/appname/change_list.html admin/change_list.html

Where 'appname' and 'modelname' are the names of the application and the model, respectively. To override for a specific application, make a directory with the name of that application, and put a 'change_list.html' template in it. To override for a specific model, make the 'appname' directory, make a 'modelname' directory and put the 'change_list.html' template inside it.

Other Bits

• Custom Field example

• Manipulators/Form example

• Comments & Freecomment

• Tag field

• Custom Managers

• Custom managers, manipulators, etc (for auto-populated fields... which we'll want for created_by)

• Signals

• Content Type

• Free Comment

• Reverse URL Lookup (patch I'll probably need for the deployment story)

• Ross P's blog

• video blogging w/ django

• Running Django w/ the CherryPy WSGI server

• Django filebrowser (upload, browse, from admin)

• Generic relations

• Django Collection (generic, restful collection app)

• building the djangoproject.com docs

Example Apps / Tutorials

• Tutorial Index

Getting Things Done

• Part 1

• Part 2

• Part 3

Others

• Mnemosyne wiki

• DjangoProject.com list

• Django Userlibs

• Falling Bullets Blog w/ tutorials on a simple "Word Press clone"

Not exactly Django

(but still Python)

• Pocoo Python-based forum system

• MercuryTide white papers (many Django-related)

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