Not sure on the Django side, but I know that most forum software uses a separate table for threads, having the posts refer back to the thread_id. The first post, would obviously be the topic of the thread.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Stewart <stewart.mathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Disclaimer: This is my first Django adventure, please be gentle. > > I am currently working on a model that has a foreign key pointing to > itself. This foreign key is not mandatory. Think of a post in a forum. > The post will have a number of replies. The post itself will not have > a foreign key however each reply to the post will have a foreign key > of the initial post. So far so good, I have managed to set up the > model correctly. > > I am having a little trouble with the form. I am not sure of the best > way to lay it out for Django. I was initially thinking that I could > pre-populate an integer field with the widget type set to hidden. So > for example if I am viewing posts/34 and I click on reply the foreign > key field will be hidden and auto populated to 34. When the form gets > submitted the record gets created with the correct foreign key. > > Am my approaching this in the correct way? Is there a correct "Django" > way to do this that I have missed? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > -- > > 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<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
