django-nicedit

Nicedit widget for django with image upload feature.

Project Description

NicEdit widget for django with image upload feature.

NicEdit home: http://nicedit.com/

Blog post: NicEdit widget for Django

Versions

0.23 - use with Django<1.6

0.24 - use with Django==1.6

1.1 - use with Django>=1.7

Installation

To get the latest stable release from PyPi

$ pip install django-nicedit

To get the latest commit from GitHub

$ pip install -e git+git://github.com/nanvel/django-nicedit.git#egg=nicedit

Add nicedit to your INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'nicedit',
)

Add the nicedit URLs to your urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^nicedit/', include('nicedit.urls')),
)

Don’t forget to migrate your database

python manage.py migrate nicedit

MEDIA_ROOT should be specified, example:

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname('__file__'), '../media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Add to urls configuration:

from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.conf import settings

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Usage

forms.py:

from django import forms

from nicedit.widgets import NicEditWidget


class MessageForm(forms.Form):
    message = forms.CharField(
        widget=NicEditWidget(attrs={'style': 'width: 800px;'})
    )

views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render

from .forms import MessageForm


def home(request):
    form = MessageForm()
    return render(request, 'home.html', {'form': form})

template:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>NicEdit widget</title>
    {{ form.media }}
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action='.' method='post'>
      {% csrf_token %}
      {{ form.message }}
      <button type="submit">Submit</button>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

See testproject for example.

Usage in admin:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin

from nicedit.widgets import NicEditAdminWidget

from .models import Item


class ItemAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Item
        widgets = {
            'text': NicEditAdminWidget(
                attrs={'style': 'width: 610px;'},
                js_options={"buttonList": [
                    'save', 'bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'left', 'center',
                    'right', 'justify', 'ol', 'ul', 'fontSize',  # 'fontFamily',
                    'fontFormat', 'indent', 'outdent', 'image', 'upload', 'link',
                    'unlink', 'forecolor', 'bgcolor', 'xhtml']
                }
            )
        }


class ItemAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    form = ItemAdminForm

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, please perform the following steps

# Fork this repository
# Clone your fork
$ virtualenv .env --no-site-packages
$ source .env/bin/activate
$ python setup.py install
$ pip install -r test_requirements.txt

$ git co -b feature_branch master
# Implement your feature and tests
$ git add . && git commit
$ git push -u origin feature_branch
# Send us a pull request for your feature branch

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