django-yaccounts 0.4

Accounts app.

===============
django-yaccounts
===============

YACCOUNTS == Yet/Why Another Django Accounts App


Installation
============

1. Download dependencies:
- Python 2.6+
- Django 1.5+

2. ``pip install django-yaccounts`` or ``easy_install django-yaccounts``


Configuration
=============

settings.py
-----------

1. Add "yaccounts" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

INSTALLED_APPS = (
# all other installed apps
'yaccounts',
)

2. Add logger handler::

LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'handlers': {
# all other handlers
'log_file_yaccounts': {
'level': 'DEBUG',
'class': 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
'filename': os.path.join(os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), '..'), 'logs/yaccounts.log'),
'maxBytes': '16777216', # 16megabytes
},
},
'loggers': {
# all other loggers
'yaccounts': {
'handlers': ['log_file_yaccounts'],
'propagate': True,
'level': 'DEBUG',
}
}
}

3. Configure User model by adding the following line your settings:

``AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'yaccounts.User'``

4. Configure authentication backends to enable Yaccount's authentication backends (e.g. Authentication Key, Twitter, etc) for account email confirmation::

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
'yaccounts.backends.ActivationKeyAuthenticationBackend',
'yaccounts.backends.TwitterBackend',
'yaccounts.backends.FacebookBackend'
)

5. Configure YACCOUNT's settings::

YACCOUNTS = {
# API URL Namespace (e.g. YAPI URL is in /api/v1, and the respective Django URL namespaces are 'api' and 'v1')
'api_url_namespace': 'api:v1',

# Enabled signup types (possible: 'EMAIL', 'FACEBOOK', 'TWITTER')
'signup_available': ['EMAIL'], # Only email signup enabled

# Application emails 'sender'.
'email_from': { 'name': 'Administrator', 'email': '[e-mail]' },

# Twitter Application's OAuth Settings.
'twitter_oauth': {
'consumer_key': '{{ YOUR_APP_CONSUMER_KEY }}',
'consumer_secret': '{{ YOUR_APP_CONSUMER_SECRET }}'
},

# Facebook Application's OAuth Settings.
'facebook_oauth': {
'app_id': '{{ APP_ID }}',
'app_secret': '{{ APP_SECRET }}'
}
}

6. Don't forget to set the 'MEDIA_URL' variable, which defines the root folder to where files will be uploaded (e.g. profile pictures) and the
variable necessary for the full URL's of the pictures to be built::

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/uploads/')
MEDIA_URL = HOST_URL + '/static/uploads/'

7. Configure template processors so tha every RequestContext will contain a variable request, which is the current HttpRequest. This will be used for stuff
such as knowing the current path.

from django.conf.global_settings import TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS as TCP
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = TCP + (
'django.core.context_processors.request',
)

Logs
----

Create a 'logs' folder in your project's root folder (if you don't have one already).
Your project folder should look something like this::

myproject/
__init__.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
logs/
manage.py

Database
--------

Run ``python manage.py syncdb`` to create the yaccounts models.

URLs
----

1. Add app URL namespace to top-level ``urls.py``::

# myproject/urls.py
# ============

urlpatterns = patterns('',
# all other url mappings
url(r'^account', include('yaccounts.urls', namespace='yaccounts')),
)

2. Add app to API namespace::

# myproject/api/urls.py
# ============

urlpatterns = patterns('',
# all other api url mappings
url(r'^/account', include('yaccounts.api.urls', namespace='yaccounts')),
)