text media files for comments

[Fatih Tiryakioglu]

Hi all,

I want to render a static media .txt file from django template, but I can't load it. Should I use database for text comments, or is it better statatic text files like image files in media folder.

Any help is appreciated.

[Sven Aßmann]

Hi Fatih,

i would ask myself the question is this static data that not changes
frequently or is it editable content that should be:

a) maintainable from users (without code updates of course)
b) is maintained independently form software releaes

if one of thoses questions can be answered with yes then i would go for a
model that stores that texts. So that in fact you only render that stuff within
a normal view (like blog posts but much more simpler)

if the answer is no: then just include it like css of js files and deliver the
files with a custom ResponseView that reads the file content and puts it out, or
a specialized template view that skips the parse and processing aspect of
processing templates.

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Best Regards,
Sven