On Jul 4, 1:27 pm, Damon Timm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I wondered if anyone had insight on a Model for site-wide "global" > options. I am thinking of a place to store: site title, site meta, > site description, specific global links (twitter, facebook, etc), > support contact email, etc ... The model itself doesn't seem too > complicated, maybe: > > class GlobalOptions(models.Model): > opiton = models.SlugField('Machine Readable Option > Name',max_length=50,unique=True) > value = models.TextField('Option Value') > # more fields could be included, of course (date_created, description, > blah) > > My question, though, is about how to easily get these new "options" > into a template tag. So that I could simply do: > > {{ globaloptions.optionname }} > > And it would return the value for that option or, if the option didn't > exist, it would return nothing. I have been looking around for a way > to do this and coming up blank -- I am new to both Python and Django, > so I'm sure the answer is there, I just don't know where/how to look > for it. > > Any insight would be great! > > Damon
Look into the django-dbsettings project, which does just this: http://code.google.com/p/django-values/ -- DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
