django-social-layer 0.3.3

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

• New: users now can post content, images, videos, etc.

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.apps.SocialLayerConfig',
    'infscroll', # required
]

# the login url to redirect site visitors to a social account.
# Note that you need to take care of auth and user registration.
SOCIAL_VISITOR_LOGIN = '/login/'

run migrations:

./manage.py migrate

USAGE

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 optionally can have an owner.

from social_layer.comments.models import CommentSection
comment_section = CommentSection.objects.create(url=request.path)

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

from social_layer.comments.models import CommentSection
def my_view(request):
    # in this example, we'll use the url to match the page.
    cmt_section, n  = CommentSection.objects.get_or_create(url=request.path)
    return render(request, 'my_view.html',
                  {'comment_section': cmt_section})

To finish, add this to the template:

{% load static %}
<script defer application="javascript" src="{% static 'social_layer/js/social_layer.js' %}"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'social_layer/css/social_layer.css' %}"/>
...
<p>The comment section will render below.</p>
{% include 'social_layer/comments/comment_section.html' %}

Get and create a SocialProfile for an authenticated user:

from social_layer.utils import get_social_profile
def my_view(request):
    profile = get_social_profile(request)

Hope this can be useful to you.