Re: User-specific sites

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Eryn Wells <eryn@erynwells.me> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post and it's a simple question... (I think)
>
> In my experience, it seems like Django allows users to log in to access and modify the same content, like a blog with multiple authors or a CMS. I'm trying to figure out how to do user-specific sites – something like a blog site where every user has their own blog and they can log in to add, remove, and edit their own posts (and no one else's). Each user has their own preferences and the like as well. Is this something that Django's built-in user framework can handle? Or could I maybe finagle the sites module into doing something like this? Is it as simple as adding a ForeignKey to all my models that points to the User that owns that particular db row (seems like the brute force way of doing it...) or is there a more elegant way?

Hi Eryn,

It sounds to me like a foreign key to User is the best way to handle
what you're describing. If you set up the auth infrastructure, a
logged-in user will attach the current user to the request object, so
if you want to find the Posts for that user, it's a very simple
filtered query.

I'm not sure why you consider this to be "brute force"; you've pretty
much defined your requirements as "Show me all the blog posts for this
user", so that's what you encode in Django -- a view of blog posts,
filtered to those from the current user.

If your objection is that you need to code everything from scratch --
well, that's when you start looking for other people that have solved
the same problem, and use their code. There's a rich community of
reusable, open source Django applications, and unless you've got very
specific requirements, you'll probably find a "blog" package that will
meet those requirements. I'd suggest having a look around Django
Packages [1] to see if there is something that will meet your needs.

If you're looking for a more complex, CMS-like solution -- there are
pre-built solutions for those, too (Django CMS, FeinCMS, Mezzanine,
and others). Which one works best for you will depend on your
requirements.

[1] http://djangopackages.com/

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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