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
The loremipsum tag generates random content for use in mockups. It takes this content from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. By default you get a random number of paragraphs up to 6, but you can affect this behaviour by passing in parameters for quantity and units. Units can be "paragraphs" or "words"; the default is paragraphs. Quantity dictates the number of units returned.
If your django.conf.settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG is True, then no output is returned, so you should be OK in the event you leave the tag in a production template.
Syntax:
{% loremipsum %}
{% loremipsum quantity="3" units="paragraphs" %}
By leaving the behaviour as random, you can see how your layout handles varying amounts of content. Handy, especially for multi-column pages. [Here's a stoopid site](http://lakes.knoxzilla.com/) where I'm playing with random text, pictures, business listings, etc.
I do plan to add a "corpus" parameter to allow you to put your own corpus between lorumipsum and endloremipsum tags and a template parameter to specify the corpus should come from a template, but this has suited me well thus far.