Timedelta template tag

This is tag similar to *timesince* and *timeuntil*, which work great until you starting giving timesince dates in the future or timeuntil dates in the past. Timedelta tag will humanize output correctly for both future and past dates using *now* as a default reference date (or a specified reference date as argument) now = Apr 27 2007 futuredate = May 5 2007 pastdate = Jan 5 2007 {{ futuredate|timedelta }} will output "in 1 week, 1 day" {{ pastdate|timedelta }} will output "3 months, 2 weeks ago"

• template
• date
• time
• humanize

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

jsonify template filter

Simple template filter to encode a variable to JSON format Usage: {% load json_filters %} {% block content %} &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;<![CDATA[ var items = {{ items|jsonify }}; ]]>&lt;/script&gt; {% endblock %} I'm using JsonResponse for the views but I also want to have preloaded JSON data into the page output

• template
• filter
• json

Sun 22 Jan 2012 Read More

HttpMethodsMiddleware

This middleware allows developers to "fake" browser support for HTTP methods. Even though most modern browsers only support GET and POST, the HTTP standard defines others. In the context of REST, PUT and DELETE are used for client interaction with the server. For forms with a PUT or DELETE method, this middleware will change them to go through POST, and will include an invisible field called "method_middleware_transform" that carries the originally intended method. So, `<form method="PUT" ...>...</form>` More or less becomes `<form method="POST" ...><input type=hidden name="method_middleware_transform" value="PUT"></form>` (with a few other minor HTML modifications) The process is completely transparent to the developer... you never have to deal with the fact that browsers don't support the standard methods. **One caveat** is that server interaction via `XMLHttpRequest` (AJAX) requires special attention... this middleware won't properly setup your XMLHttpRequest to take advantage of this functionality. This is a combination of the work of Jesse Lovelace and the Django CSRF middleware.

• middleware
• rest

Wed 20 Apr 2011 Read More

Filter on Multiple M2M Objects Simultaneously

This snippet should allow you to do queries not before possible using Django's ORM. It allows you to "Split" up the m2m object you are filtering on. This is best described by example: Suppose you have `Article` and `Tag`, where `Article` has a m2m relation with `Tag` (`related_name = 'tag'`). If I run: from django.db.models.query import Q Article.objects.filter(Q(tag__value = 'A') & Q(tag__value = 'B')) > # no results I would expect to get no results (there are no tags with both a value of 'A' and 'B'). However, I *would* like to somehow get a list of articles with tags meeting that criteria. Using this snippet, you can: from django.db.models.query import Q from path.to.qsplit import QSplit Article.objects.filter(QSplit(Q(tag__value = 'A')) & QSplit(Q(tag__value = 'B'))) > # articles with both tags So now they are split into different `Tag` entries. Notice how the `QSplit()` constructor takes a `Q` object---it's possible to give this any complicated Q-type expression.

• models
• q
• m2m
• db
• orm

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Generate a CSV file for a model

This code generates a CSV file for a model. The URL is http://example.com/spreadsheets/app_label/model_name/ (replace spreadsheets for admin, from the URL for the model's admin page.)

• csv

Wed 04 May 2011 Read More

Django Registration with GMail account

This code works with Django-registration app found here: http://code.google.com/p/django-registration/ If you plan to use this django-registrtion code in your website to allow user registration but do not run your own email server,this snippet can be handy. It uses gmail server to send out email. You have to install libgmail module first. Add two lines to your `settings.py` GMAIL_USERNAME = '[email protected]' GMAIL_PASSWORD = 'your_password' Change models.py - create_inactive_user(...) as given above

• registration
• email
• gmail
• django-registration

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

apache authentication via cookies

Enables cookie based authentication with apache. I needed user authentication for some static files, but couldn't use the method described [here](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/apache_auth/) as this prompts the user for his credentials, making him log in twice. There is some overhead in the code, because it runs all request middleware components (only session and auth would be needed). All arguments described in the link above are supported. I use it like this in the apache config: <Location "/protected/location"> PythonPath "['/path/to/proj/'] + sys.path" PythonOption DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE myproj.settings PythonOption DjangoPermissionName '<permission.codename>' PythonAccessHandler my_proj.modpython #this should point to accesshandler SetHandler None </Location>

• authentication
• apache

Fri 01 Apr 2011 Read More

Regular Expression Replace Template Filter

This will perform a regular expression search/replace on a string in your template. `{% load replace %}` `{{ mystring|replace:"/l(u+)pin/m\1gen" }}` If: `mystring = 'lupin, luuuuuupin, and luuuuuuuuuuuuupin are lè pwn'` then it will return: `mugen, muuuuuugen, and muuuuuuuuuuuuugen are lè pwn` The argument is in the following format: [delim char]regexp search[delim char]regexp replace

• regex
• regular-expressions
• templates
• filters

Fri 18 Jan 2013 Read More

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

Tue 27 May 2014 Read More

CatchTag - Catching the content and saving it to a variable

You can use this tag to "catch" some template snippets and save it into a context variable, then use this variable later. How to use it {% catch as var1 %}any tags and html content{% endcatch %} ... {{ var1 }}

• tag

Sun 21 Nov 2010 Read More

Fetching top items

This is a method from the custom manager for the Snippet model used on this site; the basic idea is to be able to ask for the top `n` "foo", where "foo" is something related to Snippet. For example, you can use `top_items('tag')` to get the top Tags ordered by how many Snippets are associated with them. I have a feeling that I could get this down to one query, but haven't yet put in the time for it.

• snippets
• sql
• managers
• group-by

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

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

Thu 18 Jan 2018 Read More

MultiSelectField with comma separated values (Field + FormField)

Daniel Roseman's snippet, updated will all fixes mentioned in the comments of the first version + some other things to make it work under Django 1.4. South, and dumpdata are working. There's an ugly int(....) at the validate function in order to cast each value as an integer before comparing it to default choices : I needed this, but if you're storing strings values, just remove the int(......) wrapper. ------------------------------------- Orginal readme Usually you want to store multiple choices as a manytomany link to another table. Sometimes however it is useful to store them in the model itself. This field implements a model field and an accompanying formfield to store multiple choices as a comma-separated list of values, using the normal CHOICES attribute. You'll need to set maxlength long enough to cope with the maximum number of choices, plus a comma for each. The normal get_FOO_display() method returns a comma-delimited string of the expanded values of the selected choices. The formfield takes an optional max_choices parameter to validate a maximum number of choices.

• checkbox
• multiple
• forms
• model
• field
• comma

Wed 20 Nov 2013 Read More

Admin action for a generic "CSV Export"

Based on [#2020](/snippets/2020/) Save the snippet as actions.py within your django app, and then add an action on any model you want in it's ModelAdmin definition. Example usage: from actions import export_as_csv_action class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): list_display = (...) list_filter = [...] actions = [export_as_csv_action("CSV Export", fields=[...])] * - Added UTF-8 encoding support * - Bugs fixed

• admin
• export
• csv
• action

Tue 01 Jul 2014 Read More

Link raw_id_fields (both ForeignKeys and ManyToManyFields) to their change pages

**UPDATE: Now works in Django 1.4** Based on luc_j:s snippet (http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2108/) to show values in ManyToManyFields in the admin. This snippets does that, but also links each value to its corresponding admin change page. To use, just set the raw_id_fields to the value you want, and let your form inherit from ImproveRawIdFieldsForm.

• admin
• widget
• django-admin
• raw_id_fields
• ManyToManyField
• ForeignKey

Mon 14 Nov 2016 Read More