This snippet is based on djangos urlize filter. It converts http:// links to youtube into youtube-embed statements, so that one can provide a simple link to a youtube video and this filter will embed it. I used it for a fun blog app.
** Django Proxied Behind Apache Path** Middleware and Context Processor for django applications behind a proxy like Apache's mod_proxy. Setting an HTTP header with the base path of the django application in the Apache mod_proxy configuration, we can pull that variable out of the request and adjust our template URIs and redirects. This allows us to serve the same Django application out from behind multiple VirtualHosts at different URL paths. Example use in templates: <a href="{{ base_path }}/login/">Login</a> Example Apache configuration: <LocationMatch ^/path/to/django/app/.*> RequestHeader set X-Base-Path "/path/to/django/app" </LocationMatch> RewriteRule ^/path/to/django/app/(.*) http://django-host:8080/$1 [P,L] In settings.py: VHOST_HEADER = "HTTP_X_BASE_PATH"
This is a django filter which will create an html mailto link when you use the syntax: {{ "[email protected]"|encode_mailto:"Name" }} Results in: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Name</a> Except everything is encoded as html digits. The encoding is a string of html hex and decimal entities generated randomly. If you simply want a string encoding use: {{ "name"|encode_string }} This was inspired by John Gruber's [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink) project
A little tiny middleware that, when used in multilingual sites, will make Django I18N ignore any `Accept-Language` headers in the request, thus ensuring that every first-time visitor (with no explicit language preference set via session or cookie) will see the site in the language specified by `settings.LANGUAGE_CODE`. (Please note that I think that overriding user preferences is generally a bad practice, but I had my reasons to use it :) )
This paginator remembers state and generates links
Example usage of BetterPaginator
Wizard class - subclass this, supply a done() method and then you can use `MyWizard( [list, of, newforms, classes])` as a view function. see [#3218](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3218)
The django templating language is quite nice, and specifically limited to guide people in to making their business logic in the view, not in the template itself. Sometimes it can be difficult to do certain things in the template even though it seems like the most appropriate place to do this. I have an application that is heavily influenced by the user that is logged in in several ways. For example let us say I have a list of forums. Each forum has several discussions full of posts. This system of forums and discussions has permissions such that some users can not see some entities. Now, I can produce in the view the query set of what forums a user is allowed to see, and I want this list to display the latest post in each of those forums, but I have to restrict that to the posts that they can see. Easy enough, I have a method on the Forum object that takes a user object and does the appropriate filter to return the latest post that the user can see. The trick is the template is passed the query set of forums, and then iterates through them using the template language. How can it invoke the method on the forum for the latest post that needs the 'user' variable from the template context? The template language lets me say 'forum.latest_post' but I need to pass in 'user'. 'forum.latest_post(user)' does not work because the template language does not allow it. This tag lets me specify an object, the method on that object to call, and the variable to pass to that method. It is not the prettiest thing but with this add on you can do: `{% method_arg forum latest_post user as post %}`
This is a general-purpose utility function, but since it uses lazy sequences via itertools, so it should be suitable for use with Querysets.
Lets you compare two objects based on fields
Allows you to use the N argument parameters in a printf string
Allows the selection of one or more items from a list. The built-int `random` filter only allows you to select a single at a time, and repeated use can return the same item many times. **Example:** `{% for random_item in item_list|several_random:3 %} ... {% endfor%}` **Note:** If you're running this on an uncached QuerySet, it can result in many database queries... a future improvement might check to see if the passed object is a QuerySet and act accordingly.
An ORM model for the Sphinx full-text search engine. See http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ for more information. It currently supports the following: class MyModel(models.Model): search = SphinxSearch() MyModel.search.query('query') MyModel.search.query('query').order_by('@weight', '@id', 'my_attribute') MyModel.search.query('query').filter(my_attribute=5) MyModel.search.query('query').filter(my_other_attribute=[5, 3,4]) MyModel.search.query('query').exclude(my_attribute=5)[0:10] MyModel.search.query('query').count() SphinxSearch().query('hello').on_index('model_myapp model_myotherapp') Returns an ordered list of the objects in your database. -- Update: New Methods: * count() * index_on(<str index>) * extra(<see django>) * all() (does nothing) * select_related(<see django>) * group_by(<str attribute>, <const function>[, <str sort>) * weights(<list weights>)
A way to make form_for_model more customizable.
This script can be run periodically (e.g. as a nightly cronjob) to keep a SQLite database with high churn from growing unnecessarily large.