django-social-layer 0.0.8

Adds social media features to any website

DJANGO SOCIAL LAYER

django-social-layer - Adds social media features to any website.

FEATURES

• easly add a comment section to any webpage

• users can like comments

• notifications

• users have profile page

INSTALATION

Install django-social-layer:

pip install django-social-layer

Add to urls.py:

path('', include(('social_layer.urls', 'social_layer'), namespace="social_layer"))

add to settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'social_layer',
]

run migrations:

./manage.py migrate social_layer

USAGE

Create a SocialProfile for an user:

bob = User.objects.create(username="bob")
social_bob = SocialProfile.objects.create(user=bob)

Create a CommentSection for any purpose. It can, for example, be linked to an object with a ForeignKey field, or to a view by it’s URL. In our example we will use an url, but it’s optional. A CommentSection must have an owner.

comment_section = CommentSection.objects.create(owner=social_bob,
                                                url=request.path)

Now inside a view, lets add a commennt section for the page owned by bob:

def some_awesome_view(request):
    social_bob = SocialProfile.objects.get(nick='bob')
    # in our example, we use the url to match the page.
    comment_section = CommentSection.objects.get(url=request.path)
    data = {'comment_section': comment_section}
    return render(request, 'awesome_template.html', data)

To finish, add this to the template:

<script defer application="javascript" src="{{ STATIC_ROOT }}social_layer/js/social_layer.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_ROOT }}social_layer/css/social_layer.css"/>

<p>A comment section will render below.</p>
{% include 'comments/comment_section.html' %}