Changes **all slugify calls** to support translat automatically, behind the scenes. Using this one doesn't have to change any models or code to make it work everywhere.
Create new project, I call it myself *autoslugifytranslat*, and add the following to project's `__init__.py` file. It will automatically add translat slugify support for all default slugify calls.
This script is depending on the fact that slugify function in Django is always in *django.template.defaultfilters.slugify*.
**Note:** The snippet is supposed to have "ä","Ä" and "ö","Ö" in the `char_translat` list, but djangosnippets does not let me put ä's and ö's to the code part!
- i18n
- slugify
- translat
- internal
Here are a couple of Django decorators for limiting access to a view based on the request's `HTTP_REFERER`. Both raise a Django `PermissionDenied` exception if the referer test fails (or a referer simply isn't provided).
The first, `referer_matches_hostname`, takes a hostname (and port, if specified) and matches it against the referer's. If multiple arguments are supplied a match against any of the hostnames will be considered valid.
The second, `referer_matches_re`, takes a regex pattern (like Django's urlpattern) and tests if it matches the referer. This is obviously more flexible than `referer_matches_hostname` providing the ability to match not just the hostname, but any part of the referer url.
Finally there's an simple example decorator, `local_referer_only`, that limits a view to the current site by using Django's `django.contrib.sites` to look up the current hostname.
- view
- referer
- decorator
- http_referer
- request
The newforms package allows you to simply add new field types to your forms.
This snippet shows the addition of a new type of field, to make sure the user enters sensible currency values (either with no decimal, or two-decimal places), and a custom widget to make sure that the value is displayed correctly when the user sees the form.
The CurrencyInput widget simply tries to display the current value in floating point 2-decimal places format (and gives up if it can't). The CurrencyField makes sure that the input value matches a regular expression, and when it is asked to clean the value it converts it to a float.
The regex here limits the amount to 99,999.99 or less. This is within the bounds of accuracy of python's float value. If you want to use truly huge values for the amount, then you'll face problems with the floating point not being able to represent the values you enter, and so the conversion to floating point in the field will fail. In this case it would be better to use python longs, and used a fixed point interpretation.
- newforms
- validation
- currency
- form
- widgets
I know you're thinking, *what the heck could that title mean?*
I often find myself wanting to filter and order by the result of a COUNT(*) of a query using a method similar to the [entry_count example](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#extra-select-none-where-none-params-none-tables-none). Writing this many times is tedious and hardcoding the table and column names made me cringe, I also wanted the counts to result from more complex queries.
This is a method you can add to your custom Manager to do this easily. It's not an ideal syntax, but it's good for the amount of code required.
Example: suppose we have some articles we want to filter and order by comments and visit logs to show the most popular...
class ArticleManager(models.Manager):
count_related = _count_related
class Article(models.Model):
pub_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
objects = ArticleManager()
class Comment(models.Model):
article = models.ForeignKey(Article)
is_spam = models.BooleanField(default=False)
class Visit(models.Model):
article = models.ForeignKey(Article)
referrer = models.URLField(verify_exists=False)
search_query = models.CharField(maxlength=200)
Notice how the ArticleManager is given the `count_related` method. Now you can find the most popular like so...
Order by non-spam comments:
Article.objects.count_related(Comment.objects.filter(
is_spam=False)).order_by('-comment__count')
Order by incoming non-search-engine links:
Article.objects.count_related(Visit.objects.filter(
referrer__isnull=False, search_query__isnull=True),
'links').order_by('-links')
Order by total visits:
Article.objects.count_related(Visit).order_by('-visit__count')
Note: Doesn't work if `query` contains joins or for many-to-many relationships, but those could be made to work identically if there's demand.
- sql
- model
- db
- count
- manager