Django reusable application for content categorization.Django reusable application for content categ...

1. django-sitecats 0.4.0 : Python Package Index
Django reusable application for content categorization.
Django reusable application for content categorization.
Nay, - you say, - all that tags business lacks structuring.
This application is just about structuring your data: build categories hierarchy and link your site
entities to those categories.
# Somewhere in views.py
from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
# Suppose Article model has sitecats.models.ModelWithCategory class mixed in.
from .models import Article
def article_details(self, request, article_id):
"""See, there is nothing special in this view, yet it'll render a page with categories for the article."""
return self.render(request, 'article.html', 'article': get_object_or_404(Article, pk=article_id))
def article_edit(self, request, article_id):
"""Let's allow this view to render and handle categories editor."""
article = get_object_or_404(Article, pk=article_id)
# Now we enable category editor for an article, and allow users
# not only to link that article to subcategories of `language`, and `os` categories,
# but also to add those subcategories.
article.enable_category_lists_editor(request,
editor_init_kwargs='allow_new': True,
additional_parents_aliases=['language', 'os'])
form = ... # Your usual Article edit handling code will be here.
return render(request, 'article.html', 'article': article, 'form': form)
Template coding basically boils down to sitecats_categories template tags usage:

2. !-- The same html is just fine for demonstration purposes for both our views.
Do not forget to load `sitecats` template tags library. --
% extends "base.html" %
% load sitecats %
% block contents %
!-- Some additional functionality (e.g. categories cloud rendering,
editor enhancements) will require JS. --
script src=" STATIC_URL js/sitecats/sitecats.min.js"/script
h1 article.title /h1
div id="article_categories"
% sitecats_categories from article % !-- And that's it. --
/div
!-- Form code goes somewhere here. --
% endblock %
Read the docs, sitecats can do more.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-sitecats