Cocolombo - Actually, you are asking some pretty good questions because all of them are fundamental, and everyone starting with Django has to answer them.
On Monday, December 13, 2010 10:25:45 pm cocolombo wrote: > I read a lot of documentation and books but there are still some very > basic things that I just don't catch about Django. > > Let's say I want to crate a very basic site for a simple game with no > graphics, just text. > > 1) Should the players use the admin to loggin ? Probably not. Most of the time I use Django-admin to administer an application, and that freesme from having to spend lots of time building out the back end of my app that will be used by a tiny number of people. This in turn frees me to develope the front end of my app that will be used by thousands. > 2) Do I use the user objects, to keep information about each players ? > Or a different class called player ? It depends on what you want to do. Django's user model lets you specifiy one model as a user profile, and so in your case it may make sense for the profile model to be called player. > 3) Should I create a separate application for the login section of the > site ? You may or may not have to create a seperate application. > > 4) Is registering a new user (confirmation by email, etc) a different > module or is it part in the admin. You'll have to do a little assembly. See "Other Built in Views" here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth > 5) I understand the importance of admin to manage my database, but of > course, I don't want the players to access directly the database. Do > the players access the admin with limited privileges, or do they not > touch the admin whatsoever ? I don't think in your case you want users using the admin. > As I said I read a lot, but I am stucked and don't understand the "big > picture" of an application (or is it a project) ans it's relation with > the admin. Look at the admin as the control panel for your game's administrators. It can be used to access and modify pretty much everthing. > Thanks for taking the time to answer such questions that must be so > trivial to many of you. Two immutable truths: a broken clock is accurate two times per day, and everyone was new once. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
