django-views

I am trying to write a Django application and I am stuck at how I can call a view function when a button is clicked. In my template, I have a link button as below, when clicked it takes you to a different webpage: <a target="_blank" href="{{ column_3_item.link_for_item }}">Check It Out</a> When the button is clicked, I also want to call a Django view function (along with re-direct to a target website). The view function increments the value in the database which stores the number of times the button is clicked. The column_3_item.link_for_item is a link to an external website (e.g. www.google

Say we have a Django page that shows a list of items and allows the user to fill in a form to add to the items (let's call the items posts). What I want: The URL for this page refers to a view. The view calls two other views (called "sub-view" hereon), then each sub-view renders its section and returns the results. The main view then joins the results of the sub-views and returns that. Ideally, I would have a quick javascript check on the page - if javascript is enabled, the submit button for the form will be "Ajax'd" to the sub-view that deals with form adding, and the page will be updated

I'm using Django 1.3 and I realize it has a collectstatic command to collect static files into STATIC_ROOT . Here I have some other global files that need to be served using STATICFILES_DIR . Can I make them use the same dir ? Thanks. No. In fact, the file django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py even checks for this and raises an ImproperlyConfigured exception when you do so: "The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting" The STATICFILES_DIRS can contain other directories (not necessarily app directories) with static files and these static files will be collected into

I need to serve images securely to validated users only (i.e. they can't be served as static files). I currently have the following Python view in my Django project, but it seems inefficient. Any ideas for a better way? def secureImage(request,imagePath): response = HttpResponse(mimetype="image/png") img = Image.open(imagePath) img.save(response,'png') return response (Image is imported from PIL.) StefanNch Well, re-encoding is needed sometimes (i.e. applying an watermark over an image while keeping the original untouched), but for the most simple of cases you can use: try: with open(valid

I was wondering what is the 'best' way of passing data between views. Is it better to create invisible fields and pass it using POST or should I encode it in my URLS? Or is there a better/easier way of doing this? Sorry if this question is stupid, I'm pretty new to web programming :) Thanks There are different ways to pass data between views. Actually this is not much different that the problem of passing data between 2 different scripts & of course some concepts of inter-process communication come in as well. Some things that come to mind are - GET request - First request hits view1->send

I get an error in my class AuthorCreateForm when I submit my form. NameError self is not defined How do I use a CreateForm? I have created a class in my Author.py file from django.views.generic import TemplateView, ListView, CreateView from books.models import Author, Publisher, Book from books.forms import AuthorForm class AuthorCreateView(CreateView): objAuthorForm = AuthorForm(self.request.POST) if(objAuthorForm.save()): success = "Form saved!" else: error = "There was an error!" and I have a html template which submits to /Author/Create and I have the following line in my urls.py ('

Suppose I want to register a user (I'm using the User model located in django.contrib.auth.models). Assume this is my serializers.py: class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = User fields = ('username', 'password', 'email', ) What's the difference between the following views, and which one is recommended when it comes to creating a user? View A: def createUser(request): if request.method == 'POST': serializer = UserSerializer(data=request.DATA) if serializer.is_valid(): serializer.save() return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED) else: return

I have a problem creating an URL view in django. It gives me this error (ferrol is a Space object): TypeError at /spaces/ferrol/ 'str' object is not callable Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/spaces/ferrol/ Django Version: 1.2.3 Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: 'str' object is not callable Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.3-py2.6.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py in get_response, line 100 Here is the code: spaces/models.py class Space(models.Model): """ Basic spaces model. """ name = models.CharField(_('Name'), max_length=100,