Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-07 Thread mikegolf
Bruno, exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks! On Jun 4, 11:28 am, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > On Jun 3, 12:18 pm, mikegolf wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've started to learn Django recently, however for last 5+ years I've > > been developing using PHP (especially Yii) and thus asking if there's >

Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-04 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On Jun 3, 12:18 pm, mikegolf wrote: > Hi, > I've started to learn Django recently, however for last 5+ years I've > been developing using PHP (especially Yii) and thus asking if there's > any tutorial / documentation on significant differences in > *thinking*. > What I mean is for example objects'

Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-04 Thread mikegolf
Doug, thanks a lot! I've read the article and it really explains a lot, but what I'm actually looking for is a list of differences like the one you've pointed out (listofstuff lifetime)... anything? ;) On Jun 4, 12:10 am, Doug Ballance wrote: > I should have looked a little harder, I found the bl

Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-03 Thread mikegolf
Derek, I've already googled that one. Unfortunately it is not much helpful as it compares pure PHP coding to using Django - which is Python web framework (also, it seems to assume Django is the only Python web framework around ;) ). For anyone who has been using some serious PHP frameworks, some of

Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-03 Thread Doug Ballance
I should have looked a little harder, I found the blog post. It is about a much older version of Django. Some of the references to django internals are surely a bit different now, but the fundamentals are the same. It really helped me when I first started. I'd love to see it updated for the curre

Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-03 Thread Doug Ballance
http://www.twistedcommons.com/2008/12/how-django-works.html There was a blog post several years ago that followed, in detail, the life of a response with all the gory details. Unfortunately I can't locate the link. The above page is brief, but has a nice picture that is easy to follow. A huge d

Re: Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-03 Thread Derek
Its more of an overview, but picks up on some key points: http://j4mie.github.com/python-and-django-for-php-refugees/#slide1 On Jun 3, 12:18 pm, mikegolf wrote: > Hi, > I've started to learn Django recently, however for last 5+ years I've > been developing using PHP (especially Yii) and thus aski

Understanding Django for PHP developer

2012-06-03 Thread mikegolf
Hi, I've started to learn Django recently, however for last 5+ years I've been developing using PHP (especially Yii) and thus asking if there's any tutorial / documentation on significant differences in *thinking*. What I mean is for example objects' lifecycle - for PHP the life cycle of object is