Posted in programming, django, helpers, AJAX, prototype on May 25th, 2007 Comments Off
Ok, today I put helpers on Google code under new BSD licene. Project page is here.
For now it supports:
helper- generic function, that can call any webhelpers.rails.protype function
visual_effect
remote_function
form_remote_tag
submit_to_remote
periodically_call_remote
link_to_remote
observe_form
observe_field
Posted in programming, django, javascript, helpers on May 24th, 2007 Comments Off
There is problem with link_to_remote function. While it is nothing more than remote_function with <a href="#"
thingies, it produces some wierd error because Django does not uses routes. In the same time remote_function works ok. Looks like I just add HTML stuff at the end.
Posted in programming, django, helpers, AJAX, prototype on May 24th, 2007 Comments Off
I started to port all helpers stuff to Django, but it’s mainly boring. Then the idea came to me, what if there will be only one (or a little bit more) which handle all calls to webhelpers.
So, there is one function, that can call any Pylons webhelpers prototype function- I called it helper. The idea […]
Posted in programming, django, helpers, AJAX, prototype on May 19th, 2007 Comments Off
Have not written something in a while, was busy with one of my projects- porting Pylons webhelpers to Pylons. I didn’t know what to write, because there were no big things to write about.
Thinking of which I decided to start writing my project diary- all my problems, what I find out, hoping that others will […]
Posted in programming, django, helpers on May 7th, 2007 Comments Off
Long time Django was considered as AJAX-unfriendly web framework, which does not allow JavaScript code generation. On other hand , Pylons ported Rails helpers for their framework as webhelpers.
So maybe I can use Pylons templatetags in Django? Sounds hard, because Pylons use heavy Python coding in their templates, but you underestimate power of templatetags.
To show […]
Posted in programming, django, javascript, helpers on May 2nd, 2007 Comments Off
There are lots of tutorials in web concerning integrating AJAX into Django. But they look somehow out of place- you have to insert JavaScript test from view and it’s against DRY. So, I decided to implement JavaScript through templatetags.
First, you need to create templatetag (if you know nothing of templatetags, look at Django template documentation […]