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Improve ajax progress bar by jquery extensions

This snippet in the one to improve the method described in [http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/679/](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/679/). It uses some jquery extensions to make the task more easier: **jquery.timers.js**, **jquery.progressbar.js**, **jquery.form.js**.

  • ajax
  • javascript
  • jquery
  • upload
  • file
  • progress
  • jquery extension
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FirstRun Middleware

Simple piece of middleware that redirects all requests to **settings.FIRSTRUN_APP_PATH**, until a lockfile is created. Tested on 1.3 only, but I do not believe it requires any special functionality beyond that provided in 1.1 This is useful if you need to force a user to run an installer, or do some configuration before your project can function fully. At first glance, such a thing would generate a lot of hits on the disk. However, once the lockfile has been created, the middleware unloads itself, so when a project is in a production environment, the lockfile is only checked once per process invocation (with passenger or mod_wsgi, that's not very often at all). Once your user has completed your FirstRun app, simply create the lockfile and the project will function as normal. For it to function, the following settings must be configured: * **settings.PROJECT_PATH** - absolute path to project on disk (e.g. */var/www/project/*) * **settings.FIRSTRUN_LOCKFILE** - relative path of the lockfile (e.g. */.lockfile*) * **settings.FIRSTRUN_APP_ROOT** - relative URL of the App you want to FirstRun (eg.*/firstrun/*)

  • middleware
  • django
  • redirect
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Remove old fields on dumpdata generated json

A small script that takes a manage.py dumpdata generated json file, and removes fields of the specified models. I needed this because i kept my initial data on a json file and after I removed a field on one of my models, the script wouldn't work anymore.

  • json
  • loaddata
  • fixture
  • dumpdata
  • migrate
  • removed field
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A Django form field that accepts an uploaded image and creates a resized image attached with a push-pin

PushPinImageField is a Django form field that is a sub-class of an ImageField. The field accepts an image to upload and based on certain settings, notably the size of the resulting image, the sizes and colors of 3 different borders, as well as the color of the push pin, a re-sized image is created with a colorized push pin in the top-center. A live demo of the field as well as more detailed usage instructions are available as a [blog entry](http://www.robmisio.com/blog/2/).

  • django
  • image
  • thumbnail
  • form
  • field
  • custom-field
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DRY template rendering decorator

in this case the 'render_template' decorator assumes there is a myview.html template. this keeps things simple and you DRY. Hope it helps. Regards, Paul

  • template
  • rendering
  • dry
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Add parameters to the current url

Often a page contains a link to itself, with an additional parameter for in the url. E.g. to sort the page in a different way, to export the data into another format, etc... This tag makes this easy, avoiding any hardcoded urls in your pages.

  • url
  • parameter
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Persistent Session Debugging with Django Debug Toolbar

When using [django debug toolbar](https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar), I like to be able to turn debugging on and off without having to edit my settings file. This callback makes that possible. Add `?debug=on` to the URL to turn debugging on. It will remain on in the current session until you turn it off with `?debug=off`. Make sure your session middleware comes before your debug toolbar middleware.

  • session
  • debug
  • debug-toolbar
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Decorating URL includes

Apply a decorator to every urlpattern and URLconf module returned by Django's include() method . This allows you use a decorator on any number of views without having to decorate each one individually. The use case here is wrapping all of the Django Admin with a superuser decorator. This is code that's better left alone where we can't actually go in and decorate the Admin views and urlpatterns manually. It's also almost guaranteed the Admin will include() other URL files. So the added bonus is all the INSTALLED_APPS that have their admin.py files registered by admin.autodiscover() will be decorated automatically as well. This snippet is greatly inspired by [@miracle2k](http://djangosnippets.org/users/miracle2k/)'s excellent [#532](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/532/). In the comments there @timbroder offers a modification to decorate includes but I think this is cleaner, simpler code and not subject to changes in the Django base code driving _get_url_patterns().

  • urls
  • urlconf
  • decorator
  • urlpatterns
  • resolve
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Thumbnails in admin using django-thumbnails-works

Very straightforward way to display a thumbnail in the admin using [django-thumbnails-works](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-thumbnail-works) . django-thumbnails-works requires [cropresize](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cropresize/#downloadsInstaller) (which requires and installs PIL). Add 'thumbnail_works'to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py and here you go. Tested in django 1.3 alpha.

  • image
  • admin
  • thumbnail
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Google Charts Templatetags (HTML)

Example usage of the GChartWrapper.charts module for creating dynamic charts with templatetags. It is an easy method of creating dynamic GoogleCharts from the [GoogleChartAPI](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/). The project is located at [google-chartwrapper](http://code.google.com/p/google-chartwrapper/). To get the most recent version: `svn checkout http://google-chartwrapper.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/` and run `python setup.py` in the downloaded trunk directory. There is an included django project there with the [ChartsExamples](http://code.google.com/p/google-chartwrapper/wiki/ChartExamples) all worked out in django templates

  • templatetags
  • google
  • chart
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Class based view decorator

Converts a passed decorator to one that can be applied to a class based view (ie. automatically decorates dispatch). This means no more overriding dispatch for every view / request method you want to apply decorators to. Works in Django 1.3 but I suspect it probably works in 1.2 as well.

  • django
  • generic-views
  • decorator
  • class-based-views
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alientag

Renders enclosing contents as it is. Useful to avoid tags conflict with certain javascript libraries (eg. jquery-tmpl.js, mustache.js) Example usage: `<script class="content-tmpl" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">` `{% alien %}` `{{ tmpl(results) "#results .item-tmpl" }}` `{% endalien %}` `</script>`

  • templatetag
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User groups template tag

This snippet is an improved version of the [ifusergroup](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1576/) tag that allows spaces in any of the group names. It also fixes a small bug where if a group didn't exist none of the subsequent groups would be checked.

  • tag
  • templatetag
  • user
  • auth
  • group
  • permissions
  • access-control
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