django-smileys is an Django application that allows your Django-powered site to display those annoying and useless smileys whenever the smileys filter a pattern that you specify.
django-smileys serves a very simple purpose, but its uses can go beyond that of merely inserting smileys whenever a particular pattern (like ":)" or ";)"). It can replace whatever pattern you want with an image of your choosing. There's gotta be something useful in that, right?
django-smileys can make your blog, forums, photo galleries, user comments, etc a little more interesting, and it's very simple to install. Free icon sets plague the Internet, and you can choose whatever icons you'd like to use!
Configuration:
First of all, you must add this project to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
...
'smileys',
...
)
Run manage.py syncdb. This creates a the table in your database that is necessary for operation.
Usage:
Open the template file that you want to have your smileys appear in and make sure it has something like this in it:
{% load smiley_tags %}
{% block content %}
{{ some_content_var|smileys }}
{% endblock %}
The smiley_tags library provides you with a smileys filter, which will examine your database for all active smileys. It then runs though some_content_var (in this example) and replaces the patterns it finds with the respective smileys.
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Here are some key features of "django-smileys":
· Strict pattern matching: you can specify very strict patterns for your smileys
· Regular expression pattern matching: if you need a little more power in your pattern matching capabilities, you can specify that your patterns are regular expressions (on a per-smiley basis) and the filter should know what to do.
Requirements:
· Django
· Python
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