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Hierarchical page slugs

This allows for urls in the form of `/grandparent-slug/parent-slug/self-slug/` where the number of parent slugs could be 0 to many. You'll need to make sure that it is your last urlpattern because it is basically a catch-all that would supersede any other urlpatterns. Assumes your page model has these two fields: * `slug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=("title",), unique=True)` * `parent = models.ForeignKey("self", blank=True, null=True)`

  • slug
  • url
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Load templatetag libraries via settings

In your settings file: TEMPLATE_TAGS = ( "djutils.templatetags.sqldebug", ) Make sure load_templatetags() gets called somewhere, for example in your apps __init__.py *Edit: Updated to work with templatetag libraries that use certain critical django-bits.*

  • templates
  • settings
  • tags
  • templatetags
  • conf
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UUIDField

UUIDField is a field which stores an uuid generated by pythons new uuid module. it's included with the python 2.5 distribution by default, but if you run an older version of python you can happily copy the file from 2.5 to django/utils/uuid.py or your project directory.

  • fields
  • field
  • uuid
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Case-insensitive lookup by default

I wanted lookups on tags to be case insensitive by default, so that things like Tag.objects.get(name='Tag') would return any similar tags (ignoring case differences), i.e. `<Tag: tag>`. This snippet makes lookup on the 'name' field case-insensitive by default, although case-sensitive lookups can still be achieved with 'name__exact'. Methods like get_or_create will work as expected and be case-insensitive.

  • model
  • tags
  • tagging
  • manager
  • case-insensitive
  • iexact
  • queryset
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Simple solution for model schema evolution / database changelog

This is a very simple approach to "schema evolution" (Not sure if you can even call it so) - I use it for my project: [SCT](http://sct.sphene.net) and it seems to work quite nicely. The idea is, that if you add or change your models, you add a 'changelog' attribute to your class which defines the SQL queries required to update your models. Of course this only works for one database type... An example 'syncdb' call if a new changelog entry was detected: kahless@localhost ~/dev/python-new/sphenecommunity/sphenecommunity $ ./manage.py syncdb Executing module body. 2007-06-16 00: SQL Statement: ALTER TABLE "sphboard_post" ADD markup varchar(250) NULL Detected changes - Do you want to execute SQL Statements ? (yes,no): So if the SQL statement won't work with the database the user is currently running, he at least knows exactly what he is expected to change in his models. and he can stop automatic execution by simply entering 'no' here.

  • changelog
  • schema-evolution
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Script for getting Google Page Rank of page

I was looking for such script written in python and found google checksum algorithm at http://pagerank.gamesaga.net/ And just added complete functionality to it. Usage: script.py PR http://somepage.com/page.html It also has function to retrieve Yandex TYC.

  • google
  • pagerank
  • yandex
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prettify html

with this middleware you can use tidy to prettify your html, just add the class to the `MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` setting. tidy has an enormous number of options, se [Tidy Options Reference](http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html) . you must have [µTidylib](http://utidylib.berlios.de/) installed.

  • html
  • xhtml
  • tidy
  • standard
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Days Since Filter

Very simple filter that returns one of the following by default: 1. \# days ago 2. yesterday 3. today 4. January 01, 2007 Example template code: This thread was started {{ post.date_created|dayssince }}. This thread was started today. E-mail sent: {{ email.date_sent|dayssince|capfirst }} E-mail sent: Yesterday Object created: {{ obj.date_created|dayssince|upper }} Object created: 12 DAYS AGO User's bogus birthday: {{ user.get_profile.bday|dayssince }} User's bogus birthday: April 20, 3030

  • filter
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Using Templates to Send E-Mails

This is a basic example for sending an email to a user (in this case, when they've signed up at a website) using the Django template framework. It's really quite simple - we're just using a plain text template instead of HTML, and using the output of the template's 'render()' method as the message body. Of course, in your project you won't blindly use data from request.POST! This example was first posted on [my blog at rossp.org](http://www.rossp.org/blog/2006/jul/11/sending-e-mails-templates/)

  • templates
  • email
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ForeignKey dropdown selector

Most of the time when you want a dropdown selector based on a ForeignKey, you'll want to use [snippet #26](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/26/) Here's an alternative approach, perhaps useful when you want to define choices once and reuse it in different views without overriding Form `__init__`.

  • dynamic
  • foreignkey
  • dropdown
  • choices
  • property
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Using Textarea

A very common field in forms is the `<textarea>`, but `newforms` has no such field. Instead, you must use a dummy field (such as `newforms.CharField`) and use the `newforms.widgets.Textarea()` widget to render a textarea.

  • newforms
  • textarea
  • forms
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Allow foreign key attributes in list_display with '__'

This snippet provides a subclass of admin.ModelAdmin that lets you span foreign key relationships in list_display using '__'. The foreign key columns are sortable and have pretty names, and select_related() is set appropriately so you don't need queries for each line. EDITS: * Fixed error when DEBUG=False. * Broke out `getter_for_related_field` so you can override short_description manually (see example). * Added regular foreign key fields to select_related(), since this is overriding the code in ChangeList that usually does it.

  • admin
  • foreign-key
  • list_display
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Registration with confirmation email

This registers a users taking data from a submitted form, sends a confirmation email, activates the account when the confirmation link is clicked and logs the user in

  • registration
  • email
  • register
  • confirmation
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