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PyIf Template Tag (Conditional Tag)

Cheers to limodou for getting me thinking about this. The only problem with his implementation is that it doesn't support Django's "." syntax for accessing array/dict elements. In the Django style of allowing simple syntax for designers while allowing for greater flexibility, and less template duplication for conditionals that were previously impossible to represent in templates, I modified Django's built-in If tag. This is an adaptation/enhancement to Django's built in IfNode {% if ... %} that combines if ifequal ifnotequal into one and then adds even more. This Supports 1. ==, != 2. not .... 3. v in (1,"y",z) 4. <=, <, >=, > 5. nesting (True and (False or (True or False))) How to use it: {% pyif i == 1 or (5 >= i and i != 7) and user.first_name in ('John', 'Jacob') %} 'Tis true. {% else %} 'Tis false. {% endif %} I hope you like it.

  • template
  • tag
  • templatetag
  • if
  • conditional
  • ifequal
  • ifnotequal
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Alphabetic filter for admin

This snippet is based on [#748](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/748/). Adds filtering by first char (alphabetic style) of values in the admin filter sidebar. The example below results in this filter: By name that starts with All A B G M X urls.py example (only for register the filter): import <your project>.admin.filterspecs models.py example: from django.db import models class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=40) name.alphabetic_filter = True admin.py example: class Admin: list_filter = ['name']

  • filter
  • admin
  • filterspec
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Digg-like paginator, updated

This is an updated version of http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/628/ now working with Django's new Paginator class, instead of the deprecated ObjectPaginator. See: http://blog.elsdoerfer.name/2008/05/26/diggpaginator-update/

  • pagination
  • paginator
  • digg
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Newforms Autocomplete Widget with Scriptaculous

From [here](http://gacha.id.lv/blog/26/01/2007/django-autocompletefield/) with litle improvements. [More about Script.aculo.us and Django](http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/IntegrationWithDjango)

  • ajax
  • newforms
  • autocomplete
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Django JQuery Autocomplete for Model Selection

This is a general JQuery Autocomplete Form Field for selecting any model instance in your forms. 1 Download jquery.1.2.6 and the jquery autocomplete plugin http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/, place theme somewhere in your media directory (in this case {{ MEDIA__URL}}/js/ 2 copy fields.py to anywhere in your python-path (in this case utils.fields) 3 create a view for the ajax request that receives a query and returns a key|value list, and register it in your urls.py 4 Just Use the fields in any form like in forms.py

  • selection
  • model
  • jquery
  • autocomplete
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Decorator to limit request rates to individual views

Example: @limit("global", 3, 10, per_ip=True) def view(request, ...): The example limits the view to one request every 3 seconds per ip address. The limit is shared by every view that uses the string "global" (first parameter), which is an arbitrary string. Request succeed until the accumulated requested time in seconds (second parameter) exceeds the limit (third parameter).

  • request
  • rate
  • limit
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Command to dump data as a python script

This creates a fixture in the form of a python script. Handles: 1. `ForeignKey` and `ManyToManyField`s (using python variables, not IDs) 2. Self-referencing `ForeignKey` (and M2M) fields 3. Sub-classed models 4. `ContentType` fields 5. Recursive references 6. `AutoField`s are excluded 7. Parent models are only included when no other child model links to it There are a few benefits to this: 1. edit script to create 1,000s of generated entries using `for` loops, python modules etc. 2. little drama with model evolution: foreign keys handled naturally without IDs, new and removed columns are ignored The [runscript command by poelzi](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6243), complements this command very nicely! e.g. $ ./manage.py dumpscript appname > scripts/testdata.py $ ./manage.py reset appname $ ./manage.py runscript testdata

  • dump
  • manage.py
  • serialization
  • fixtures
  • migration
  • data
  • schema-evolution
  • management
  • commands
  • command
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Authenticate against Active Directory

I put this in a file called auth.py, then referenced it in the settings.py like so: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('myproject.myapp.auth.ActiveDirectoryBackend',) This has been tested on my office network, with the following setup: Django 0.96 Python 2.4.4 python-ldap Fedora Core 5 (On the server hosting Django) AD Native Mode 2 Windows 2003 AD servers

  • auth
  • ldap
  • active-directory
  • backend
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Sending html emails with images using Django templates

I have not extensively test this yet. But working for templates with embedded images. If you want to use Django template system use `msg` and optionally `textmsg` as template context (dict) and define `template` and optionally `texttemplate` variables. Otherwise msg and textmsg variables are used as html and text message sources. If you want to use images in html message, define physical paths and ids in tuples. (image paths are relative to MEDIA_ROOT) example: images=(('email_images/logo.gif','img1'),('email_images/footer.gif','img2')) use them in html like this: `<img src="cid:img1"><br><img src="cid:img2">` stripogram and feedparser modules are used for extract plain text from html message source. If you are going to define text partition explicitly, than you can comment out line 10,11 and 48.

  • template
  • email
  • mail
  • html
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Admin list thumbnail

This code will add a thumbnail image to your Model's Admin list view. The code will also generate the thumb images, so the first view may be a little slow loading. This assumes you have an **ImageField** in your Model called **image**, and the field's **upload_to** directory has a subdirectory called **tiny**. You then must add **"thumb"** to your Model's Admin **list_display**. The thumbnail images are also linked to the full size view of the image. I found this **VERY** useful... hope someone else does as well.

  • admin
  • imagefield
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New forms signup validation

This snippets provide username availability, double email and password validation. You can use it this way : f = SignupForm(request.POST) f.is_valid()

  • newforms
  • email
  • clean
  • signup
  • password
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Ajax form with jQuery

I recently got a form working via jQuery and Django. This was not easy for me to do and I thought I'd record my finding here. The form submits via jQuery and the "form" plugin. Please visit jQuery's home page to find all those links. This code handles: * urls.py -- passing both normal and 'Ajax' urls to a view. * views.py -- Handling both kinds of requests so that both normal and ajax submits will work. * The HTML template with the script for submitting and some bling. Error handling === I like to stay DRY so the idea of checking the form for errors in javascript *and* checking it in Django irks me. I decided to leave that up to Django, so the form submits and gets validated on the server. The error messages are sent back to the browser and then displayed.

  • ajax
  • urls
  • fields
  • views
  • jquery
  • form
  • errors
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Get most-commented objects

This is a pretty straightforward bit of code for getting the most-commented objects of a particular model; just drop it into a custom manager for that model, and you should be good to go. Check the docstring for how to make it look at `Comment` instead of `FreeComment`.

  • managers
  • comments
  • popularity
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Upload a file using newforms

Django's transition from oldforms to newforms is nearing. If you're using recent trunk source code from Django's subversion repository, you should start using newforms. But there are still some rough edges as of today. File uploading seems to be one of them. (Adrian and other Django folks are well aware of this. Please don't bother them by asking "Are we there yet?") The Django mailing lists and Google searching didn't turn up any best practices for this area of newforms, so I muddled through it and here's the result. I omit the urls.py code necessary to hook up the zip_upload method to a URL, but otherwise this should be complete. And if I haven't loaded this with enough caveats...please be aware this code may be obsoleted soon.

  • django
  • newforms
  • files
  • forms
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