Sometimes I need to truncate a string after a number of characters, usually to avoid breaking the page layout. When the string we have to truncate is a filename I don't want to hide its extension so a user can easily recognize the file. My solution is add the ellipsis at the middle of the string converting `ALongLongLongTitleDocumentThatExemplifiesThisSnippet.txt` into `ALongLongLong...hisSnippet.txt`
Given a youtube url (can copy and paste right from the browser) turns the url into an embedded video. If you put this in your app's templatetags/filters.py, you can do the following >{{ object.youtube_url|youtube }} and it would embed the youtube video.
Allows you to search if a user belongs to a given group. Along the same lines as snippet [390](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/390/), but uses a regular ``if`` tag so it is more flexible. (Updated for efficiency. Running a boolean test on a QuerySet avoids a bit of unnecessary overhead.) (Updated to accept a list of groups.)
I couldn't find any code for a blog-style "Read more after the jump," so I made a custom filter. It will look for **<!--more-->** for the jump, like in Wordpress. In **settings.py** set **READ_MORE_TEXT** to what you want the text of the link to be. `READ_MORE_TEXT = 'Read more after the jump.'` When you call the filter in your template, pass it the absolute link of that entry. Of course, you have to have your **get_absolute_url** function defined in your model, but you should have that already, right? :P In this example **entry.body** is the content of the blog entry. `{% load blog_filters %}` `{{ entry.body|read_more:entry.get_absolute_url }}` If anyone has a better way to do this, it is, of course, welcome.
Usage: (if you save it as pigmentation.py as I did) {% load pigmentation %} {% autoescape off %} {{ somevariable|pygmentize }} {% endautoescape %} There already a few of this code around, but this one is pretty clean, and includes css. It also works in both the development server and Dreamhost (python2.4 in my django config) without any unicode problems.
This tiny template filter saves you the tedious test "if this variable is set, print this text based on this variable". 'verbose' filter takes one parameter : a string containing '%s' which is a placeholder for the value to test. Check those examples : * Replace this : {% if name %} Hello {{ name }}, this is a dummy text {% endif %} * By this : {{ name|verbose:"Hello %s this is a dummy text" }} This is also usefull for HTML : {{ image|verbose:"<img src=\"%s\" />" }}
This filter truncates words like the original truncate words Django filter, but instead of being based on the number of words, it's based on the number of characters. I found the need for this when building a website where i'd have to show labels on really small text boxes and truncating by words didn't always gave me the best results (and truncating by character is...well...not that elegant). Usage example: {{var|truncatewords_by_chars:"16 2 4"}} If string lenght is higher than 16, truncates by 2 words, if lesser, truncates by 4 words.
**WARNING: a better version of this snippet you can see at [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1051/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1051/)** This filter spec is util only for who uses newforms-admin branch. To use this, you need to extend the class ModelAdmin for your model class, like the MyClassAdmin class in the code, with attention to the following lines: # Appends the filter cl.filter_specs.insert(0, AlphabeticFilterSpec(cl.lookup_opts.get_field('name'),request,cl.params,self.model,self))
This module has two template filters allowing you to dump any template variable. Special handling for object instances. Pretty output. Usage: {% load dumper %} ... <pre>{{ var|rawdump }}</pre> or {% load dumper %} ... {{ var2|dump }} How to install: As usual, put into `<your-proj>/<any-app>/templatetags/dumper.py`.
put this code into a file in a folder "templatetags" inside some application and use it like this: {% load your_file_name %} {% for item in your_list|order_by:"field1,-field2,other_class__field_name"
A simple filter that generates a url from an object that has a get_absolute_url method. {{ object|quick_url }} a previous, simpler approach: [#511](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/511/)
You can add this code to a file named "field_attrs.py" in a templatetags folder inside an application. To use it, remember to load the file with the following template tag: {% load field_attrs %} And for each field you want to change the widget's attr: {{ form.phone|attr:"style=width:143px;background-color:yellow"|attr:"size=30" }}
This custom filter is helpful if you want to convert plain text to include html line breaks but you aren't sure if the text is actually plain text or if it already contains html line breaks. First the filter looks for if the text contains any br, p, or table tags, if it does the text is returned as is. If it doesn't then the same functionality as the [linebreaks](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#linebreaks) filter is applied to the text.
This filter allows you to format numbers like PHP's [number_format](http://php.net/number_format) function. If `var` equals 1234.567`{{ var|number_format:2 }}` produces 1,234.56. Because Django's template filters support just 1 argument you'll have to adjust the argument's default values by hand until [#1199](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1199) is fixed.
This filter naively parses HTML content, and inserts <wbr/> tags in lines with unbroken strings longer than max_line_length characters. It leaves content inside tags alone, so that things like urls are unaltered. XHTML entities are treated as atomic, and whitespace is determined with a regex. It assumes well formed HTML.