ModelForm-based create_update generic views

This is a ModelForms-based rewrite of the create_object and update_object generic views, with a few added features. The views now accept a "form_class" argument optionally in place of the "model" argument, so you can create and tweak your own ModelForm to pass in. They also accept a "pre_save" callback that can make any additional changes to the created or updated instance (based on request.user, for instance) before it is saved to the DB. Usage: just save the code in a file anywhere on the PythonPath and use the create_object and update_object functions as views in your urls.py.

• newforms
• views
• generic
• update
• modelforms
• create

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Admob Ad Insertion Snippet

**Update**: [Django AdMob](http://github.com/johnboxall/django_admob/tree/master) pluggable app on github. Given a Django ``request`` object and dict of admob parameters returns a Admob ad. If no ad can be retrieved displays a one pixel Admob tracker image. For the future: * Make a template tag for this? * Filter out other unneeded META parameters for the admob_post dict?

• admob
• ad
• ads
• mobile

Thu 18 Aug 2011 Read More

SSL Redirect Middleware and testing

While we're on the topic of SSLRedirect (See snippet 240 and 880) here's what I add to the end of my ssl middleware module, so that SSLRedirect wont break my automated testing. It simply creates a dummy middleware class that removes the SSL argument, but does not do any redirecting. If you were to simply remove the middleware from settings, the extra SSL argument will then get passed on to all the relevant views. Of course, you'll need to define a TESTING variable in settings, or change this to something else like settings.DEBUG. Having the separate variable for testing allows you to run your server in DEBUG mode without side effects like the change above.

• middleware
• ssl
• testing
• redirect

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

More information about users and groups in user admin

Add-on for auth app of newforms-admin branch, adding more information about users and their groups at user and group list in admin interface. Also, nice example on customization of contributed django admin apps. It adds the following to the user list interface: fields for is_superuser and is_staff, last login time; by default, short names of groups user is in (mousehover to see full names) It adds the following to the to group list interface: list of users in your groups. To enable, just put it somewhere and import it from your main urls.py: import useradmin

• admin
• newforms-admin
• customization
• users
• groups
• roles
• information
• nfa
• supervising

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

HTML color code field

A CharField (Model) that checks that the value is a valid HTML color code (Hex triplet) like #FFEE00.

• model
• db
• color
• hexcode

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Inline truncate by character number

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`

• filter
• truncate

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

int_to_base36 and base36_to_int

If your URLs need to contain numeric IDs a neat way of shortening them is to use base36.

• urls
• base36

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

View Permission Decorator Helper

This is a simple helper to make custom permission decorators for Django views. Perhaps you have an edit_comment view which you want to make sure current user is the owner of: >def edit_comment(request, comment_id): >>if request.user == Comment(id=comment_id).user: >>>... do authorized things ... >>else: >>>... do unauthorized things ... >>... >>... In this view, you might do a quick check `if request.user == Comment(id=comment_id).user`, however you now need to duplicate this code all over the place whenever you want to check if a comment is owned by the current user. Instead, you can use the built in login_required decorator, and your own decorator to do the test: >@permission >def user_owns_comment(request, comment_id): >>return request.user == Comment(id=comment_id) > >@login_required >@user_owns_comment >def edit(request, comment_id): >> ... >> ... >> ... The "tester" function will post a message using the messages module built into Django, and redirect the user to the root. It allows access and executes the view if the tester function returns anything that evaluates to True. Your permission tester should either strictly specify the same arguments as the view, or take additional *args, and **kwargs to prevent syntax errors on extra arguments being passed along.

• view
• decorator
• permission

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Dynamic Template Loader

This snippet provides support for dynamically importing templates. This helps you to avoid naming collisions and other problems. The format is as follows: 1. `module.submodule.app:template.html` 2. `module.submodule.app:subfolder/template.html` 3. `module.submodule.app:/subfolder/template.html` Assuming the module is located in '/var/', these would map (respectively) to: 1. `/var/module/submodule/app/templates/template.html` 2. `/var/module/submodule/app/templates/subfolder/template.html` 3. `/var/module/submodule/app/templates/subfolder/template.html` The colon splits the the python module from the template directory, meaning you can import from anything that has a "templates" directory. This helps me to avoid naming collisions by specifying the application I'm referring to, without having to put long paths in my extends and include tags inside other templates. It's also dynamic in that if I move a library outside the old path, it has no effect on the templates. To get this rolling, in your `settings.py` file, add the following:: >TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( > 'addons.template_loader.load_template_source', # <--- add this > 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source', > 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', ># 'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source', >)

• template
• dynamic
• import
• loader

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Add Extra Headers to Test Client Requests

As Simon Willison mentions in his [Debugging Django](http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/22/debugging/) presentation, using the Test Client in the interpreter can be a great way to take a peek at the raw results from a view. In some cases you may need to add additional headers to the request (for instance a piece of middleware may rely on them). Though it is not mentioned in the reference documentation, a quick peek at the code confirmed my hopes that it would be possible to add data to the request. The Client *get* and *post* methods both accept an **extra** kwargs parameter that allow you to populate the request with additional data.

• testing
• request
• test
• headers

Tue 10 Feb 2015 Read More

@reply links in Twitter messages

This template filter is rewritten, courtesy of Eric Moritz. It is meant to be used when displaying status messages from Twitter. A regular expression is used to replace all @username replies with a link to that user's Twitter page. In use at [http://ryanberg.net/blog/statuses/](http://ryanberg.net/blog/statuses/)

• twitter

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Class ModelInfo for show object info

This class works in compatibility with a ModelForm, but instead of show a form, it shows the field values. The Meta class attributes can be used to customize fields to show, to be excluded, to divide by sections, to urlize text fields, etc. **Example 1:** class InfoSingleCertificate(ModelInfo): class Meta: model = SingleCertificate sections = ( (None, ('vessel','description','document','comments','status',)), ('Issue', ('issue_date','issue_authority','issue_location',)), ) **Example 2:** class InfoSingleCertificate(ModelInfo): class Meta: model = SingleCertificate fields = ('vessel','description','document','comments','status', 'issue_date','issue_authority','issue_location',) **How to use:** Just save this snippet as a file in your project, import to your views.py module (or a new module named "info.py") and create classes following seemed sytax you use for ModelForms.

• forms
• model
• display
• modelforms
• info
• values

Mon 06 Jul 2015 Read More

Add multiple parameters to the current url

Add multiple parameters to the current url.<br /> **Usage:**<br /> `{% addparam name1 value1 name2 value2 %}`<br /> or<br /> `{% addparam "name1" value1 "name2" value2 %}`<br /> variable can be use inplace of names and values<br /> example: <br />`{% addparam "view" message.id %}`

• url
• templatetags
• parameter

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Custom DateField To Handle Credit Card Exp Date. Format: MM/YY

As users would login to their accounts to update their CC info, the expiration date always threw them off. The default format for displaying a datetime.date object is >YYYY-MM-DD Obviously the expiration date on your credit card uses the MM/YY format. I finally got around to creating a custom field/widget to handle this particular piece of data. Use like so... class CustomerForm(forms.ModelForm): cc_exp = DateFieldCCEXP() class Meta: model = Customer

• datefield
• credit-card
• expiration-date

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Pygmentation

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.

• filter
• tag
• templatetag
• pygments
• code
• colorize
• color

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More