django-flatpages-i18n 1.1.1

Translatable flatpages

Translatable version of django.contrib.flatpages with menu support.

Requirements

• Django

• django_modeltrans

• django_mptt

• django-pragmatic

Tested with Django 1.8.

Installation

1. Install python library using pip: pip install django-flatpages-i18n

2. Add mptt, modeltrans and flatpages_i18n to INSTALLED_APPS in your Django settings file

3. Migrate your database

4. Specify desired languages in your Django settings file:

   from django.utils.translation import gettext
   
   LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'
   LANGUAGES = (
       ('en', gettext('English')),
       ('de', gettext('German')),
   )

5. Addd 'flatpages_i18n.urls' to your urls.py:

   if 'flatpages_i18n' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
       urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
           path(pgettext_lazy('url', 'pages/'), include('flatpages_i18n.urls')),
       )

Usage

To get all flatpages:

In your HTML template:

{% load i18n flatpages_i18n %}
{% get_flatpages_i18n as flatpages_i18n %}

<ul>
    {% for flatpage in flatpages_i18n %}
        <li><a href="{{ flatpage.get_absolute_url }}">{{ flatpage }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

To get flatpage by its PK:

{% get_flatpage_i18n 123 as my_flatpage %}
{{ my_flatpage.content_i18n }}

or by its machine_name:

{% get_flatpage_i18n 'my-flatpage' as my_flatpage %}

Menu system:

To print all menu items:

<div id="navigation">
    {% menu_i18n %}
</div>

to get only children of menu item identified by its PK:

<div id="navigation">
    {% menu_i18n 2 %}
</div>

or by its machine_name:

<div id="navigation">
    {% menu_i18n 'footer-menu' %}
</div>

You can also assign menu items into variable:

{% get_menu_i18n 'my-menu' as my_menu %}
{% for item in my_menu %}
    <a href="{{ item.get_absolute_url }}" target="{{ item.target }}">{{ item }}</a>
{% endfor %}

Authors

Library is by Erik Telepovsky from Pragmatic Mates. See our other libraries.