A frequent pattern in Django Class-based Views, specifically when using it for forms, is the need to specify a success_url, like this: from django.views.generic.edit import FormView class MyView(FormView):     form_class = forms.MyForm     success_url = '/accounts/success/' However, you don't want to hardcode the URL like that, because that violates DRY ...... Read more

I've been converting some of my code to the new Django 1.3 class-based views recently, and I must say that overall, it's been quite a frustration. I see the merits of class based views. It has resulted in some shorter code in certain places, and helped avoid some duplication (that ...... Read more

Sending your Django website posts to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and a whole array of other social networks is the easiest thing imaginable. Set up a Django Feed Start by setting up a RSS feed with the Django syndication feed framework. There are very detailed explanations and examples there, so I ...... Read more

An oft-cited problem with Django's built-in helper password generator make_random_password is that is that the passwords are very difficult to remember. Here's a short code snippet to generate passwords of the form 'snuskdrok33', 'swuspguf12', or anything with more syllables and more or less numerals.  # adaption of: # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5501477/any-python-password-generators-that-are-readable-and-pronounceable # originally written ...... Read more

Note: In most situations, Django Haystack is the way to go for full text search in Django. But if Haystack is overkill and you only need simple full text search without installing extra packages and having to run scheduled tasks, read on to find out how to add full text ...... Read more

There's an excellent post by Jeff Atwood about protecting your site's cookies from being used in one of the most common forms of XSS attacks. What it boils down to, is to set the HttpOnly attribute on the cookies you use in your site, especially those that are used for ...... Read more

Maybe it's just me, but I find the standard way Django outputs the help_text on form elements quite annoying. If you use form.as_ul, it looks something like this: <li><label>Label text:</label><input type="text">This is the helptext.</li> Which is great, except it's really difficult to make it look nice. What I would rather ...... Read more

The Django documentation gives very detailed explanations of how to show comments for objects in templates, but makes no reference to how to actually get the comment objects associated to a certain object when your still in the view. Well, there's a handy little function for that, called for_model, which is used ...... Read more

One of the great things about Django is that it makes creating forms painless and easy. However, it's not always obvious how to do certain things if you don't already know the functions. Creating an "edit form" from an existing Model object instance is one of those cases. For this ...... Read more