You may want to check out django-chunks. I'm pretty sure it does what
you are looking for.
-justin
On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:41 PM, lingrlongr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have found that the Flatpages application is very useful, especially
> in projects where you create a site for someone else and you allow
> them to change the content as they need. The only drawback with the
> application, however, is that there's only one block/section of
> modifiable content.
>
> My solution was to pretty much copy the django.contrib.flatpages
> application into my project and adjust it to conform to my
> specifications. As one would guess, that's not very clean, as I'd
> want my copy to change as Django's changed, but I saw no other way as
> I could not easily extend what was already there.
>
> For my use, I'll just touch on the basic changes I made. I left out
> any "logical" imports below. Also note that changed
> "django.contrib.flatpages" to "flatpages" where necessary so my
> changes did not refer to the original.
>
> # myproject.flatpages.models.py
> class Section(models.Model):
> slug = models.SlugField(_('slug'), max_length=50)
> content = models.TextField(_('content'), blank=True)
> flatpage = models.ForeignKey(FlatPage)
>
>
> # myproject.flatpages.admin.py
>
> class SectionInline(admin.StackedInline):
> model = Section
>
> class SectionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
> fieldsets = (
> (None, {'fields': ('slug', 'content', 'flatpage')}),
> )
> list_display = ('slug', 'flatpage',)
> list_filter = ('flatpage',)
> search_fields = ('slug', 'content')
>
> admin.site.register(Section, SectionAdmin)
>
> (also add inlines = [SectionInline,] to FlatPageAdmin class)
>
>
> # views.py - before creating Request Context
>
> # Create a dictionary, indexed by section slug, of section content
> d = {}
> for s in f.section_set.all():
> d[s.slug] = mark_safe(s.content)
>
> ...etc...
>
> c = RequestContext(request, {
> 'flatpage': f,
> 'section': d,
> })
>
> So of course, in my templates I could just render a block/section of
> content as {{ section.section_1 }}.
>
>
> Do we think something like this could be useful for the general
> population, either as part of flatpages or as a separate app?
>
> Keith
>
> >
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