Drag and drop menu manager for Django.
Project description
Django Menuz is another menu app for Django.
It mainly inspired by how easy menu creation ini WordPress. Django Menuz provides template tags to call menu in specified location.
With it’s drag and drop features, its easy to re-order the menu item position.
INSTALLATION AND USAGE:
Once you install it via setup.py, easy_install or pip.
Add menuz into your INSTALLED_APPS Django settings.py file.
Please make sure django.core.context_processors.request available in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.
Also add url config below into projects urls configuration.
url(r'', include('menuz.urls')),
Register all available menu positions in project settings.py by adding AVAILABLE_MENUS parameter. example:
AVAILABLE_MENUS = ( { 'id': 'top_menu', 'title': _('Top Menu'), 'type': 'UL', #optional, default UL. alternative 'OL' 'class': 'someclass', #optional, output: <ul class="ul_toplevel someclass"> 'before_link': 'BBB', #optional, can be text or html tag. output: <li>BBB<a href="...">Title</a></li> 'after_link': 'AAA', #optional, can be text or html tag. output: <li><a href="...">Title</a>AAA</li> }, { 'id': 'footer_menu', 'title': _('Footer Menu'), 'type': 'UL', 'class': None, }, { 'id': 'left_menu', 'title': _('Left Menu'), 'type': 'OL', 'class': None, }, )
If you have few fix/static url into your application and want to include so it’s will be selectable as a menu items, add AVAILABLE_INNERLINKS in your project settings.py.
AVAILABLE_INNERLINKS = ( ('/this_page/', 'This Page'), ('/that_page/', 'That Page'), ('/categories/', 'Categories Page'), ('/collections/', 'Collections Page'), ... ... etc. )
Above links must inbound link, not links to other sites(outbound link).
For Outbound link menu, use Custom link in menu creation admin page.
IMPORTANT:
To make Model menu items links correctly to its url, your model must utilize get_absolute_url() function. Because this is the only standard way to retrieve object urls, at least for django-menuz.
example:
from django.db import models class Page(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=50) slug = models.SlugField() @models.permalink def get_absolute_url(self): return ('some_page', None, {'slug': self.slug})
TESTING
In case you want to run a test for this app, you need to install Django-nose first https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-nose (please refer to Django-nose docs on how to install).
Then run the test by running command below:
python manage.py test menuz
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