Google Maps API

2008-03-30 Thread cmccomas80
I have a field I'm using that shows where events are around our area for sports collectors, what I'd like to do is implement Google Maps, kind of like the Washington Post does here: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/tracker/dates/2008/apr/09/6741/ Where/what would I

Re: scraping PDF

2008-03-28 Thread cmccomas80
just trying to think logic through here. if i set the scrape up so the results are: SB9, Anderson, 1 SB9, Andes, 1 SB9, Brown, 2 Where SB9 stands for Senate Bill 9, the middle field is the voting last name (or last name + first initial if two people have the same last name), and the last field

Re: scraping PDF

2008-03-28 Thread cmccomas80
James, Thnx. I would prefer scraping it into a CSV as well. I had a scraper that got NCAA football scores from a site and output them in CSV to drop into a db, it was in PHP though and scraped .html files. Also, love your blog, a lot of great stuff there. Thnx again, C On Mar 28, 9:34 pm, "Ja

scraping PDF

2008-03-28 Thread cmccomas80
has anyone done any PDF scraping? our state legislature has all their reports online in PDF format, i was hoping to scrape 'em and get them and use them with django to create something similar to what adrian did with the w-p and others have done. here's an example of what i'd have to scrape...

Re: math in django

2008-03-28 Thread cmccomas80
Is there a way to do this with Django? It doesn't have to be the way I've done it with PHP. On Mar 27, 8:22 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Dan Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  It's not possible to use aggregate functions in any Django releas

math in django

2008-03-27 Thread cmccomas80
i have a system i created a while back in php that allows fans to come to the site after a soccer match and rate each player on a scale of 1-10 based on their performance. it displays the player's average for every, the entire season, etc. the way that it's structured now is using a mysql databas

Re: user authentication permissions

2008-03-26 Thread cmccomas80
thnx karen. another related question, currently the site is using paypal for it's subscriptions, they charge $25/month. how difficulty would it be to automate the user subscription process? so when someone pays their $25 and paypal approves the transaction they're acct is good to go and they can

user authentication permissions

2008-03-26 Thread cmccomas80
reading chapter 12 of the django book ( http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter12/ ) to try and figure out the best way to use the User system to make sure users are registered and signed in before viewing page content. I'm currently using date_based generic views, here's my urls.py http://dpas

Installing mod_python and Django on webserver

2008-03-23 Thread cmccomas80
I have a friend that bought a webserver to run a php forum he's got, he overestimated how much he needed, so he's willing to give me a lot of the server space, cheap, for my own usage. I want to be able to run Django on it. Currently, it's running Linux, has MySQL and PHP installed, Apache too.