Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: django-flatblocks
Version: 0.5.0
Summary: django-flatblocks acts like django.contrib.flatpages but for parts of a page; like an editable help box you want show alongside the main content.
Home-page: http://github.com/zerok/django-flatblocks/
Author: Horst Gutmann
Author-email: zerok@zerokspot.com
License: New BSD License
Description: django-flatblocks
        =================
        
        django-flatblocks is a simple application for handling small text-blocks on
        websites. Think about it like ``django.contrib.flatpages`` just not for a 
        whole page but for only parts of it, like an information text describing what
        you can do on a site.
        
        Usage
        ------------
        
        Once you've created some instances of the ``flatblocks.models.FlatBlock``
        model, you can load it it using the ``flatblock_tags`` templatetag-library::
            
            {% load flatblock_tags %}
            
            <html>
                <head>
                    <!-- ... -->
                </head>
                <body>
                    <div id="page">
                        <div id="main">
                            <!-- ... -->
                        </div>
                        <div id="sidebar">
                            {% flatblock "page.info" %}
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </body>
            </html>
        
        This way you can display a text block with the name 'page.info'. If you 
        have the name of a block in a template variable, leave out the quotes.
        
        This tag also accepts an optional argument where you can specify the number
        of seconds, the that block should be cached::
            
            {% flatblock "page.info" 3600 %}
        
        Additionally you can also specify which template should be used to render the
        flatblock::
            
            {% flatblock "page.info" using "my_template.html" %}
            # ...
            {% flatblock "page.about" 3600 using "my_template.html" %}
        
        As with the slug of the flatblock also with the template name you have the
        choice of using the literal name of the template or pass it to the templatetag
        as a variable.
        
        edit-view
        ---------
        
        With ``flatblocks.views.edit`` django-flatblocks offers a simple view to edit
        your flatblocks from your frontend. To use it simply include it in your
        URLconf and create a ``flatblocks/edit.html`` template.
        
        By default the view doesn't do any permission checking, so you should decorate
        it accordingly in your URLconf::
            
            from flatblocks.views import edit
            from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
        
            # ...
        
            urlpatterns = pattern('',
                url(r'^flatblocks/(?P<pk>\d+)/edit/$', login_required(edit),
                    name='flatblocks-edit'),
                # ...
                )
        
        The template can operate on following variables:
        
        * ``form``
        * ``flatblock``
        * ``origin`` (the URL of the previous page)
        
        Additionally the view offers some basic customization hooks via these keyword
        arguments:
        
        ``template_name``
            Name of the template to be used for rendering this view. By default
            ``flatblocks/edit.html`` is used.
        
        ``success_url``
            After successfully editing a flatblock the view will redirect the user to
            the URL specified here. By default the view will try to determine the last
            visited page before entering the edit-view (which is normally a page where
            the flatblock is used) and redirect the user back there.
        
        ``modelform_class``
            If you want to use a customized ModelForm class for flatblocks you can
            specify it here.
        
        ``permission_check``
            This argument lets you specify a callback function to do some
            flatblock-specific permission checking. Such a function could look like
            this::
                
                def my_permcheck(request, flatblock):
                    if request.user.is_staff or flatblock.slug == 'free_for_all':
                        return True
                    return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
            
            With this permission callback set, a user that is not a staff-user is not
            allowed to edit this view unless it's the "free_for_all" block. If these
            criteria are not met, the user is redirected to the root URL of the page. 
        
            The contract here is pretty simple. The permission callback should return
            ``False``, if the user should receive a 403 message when trying to edit
            this link. If the function returns an instance of ``HttpResponse`` the
            view will proceed from the assumption that your view already did
            everything there is to do and return that response-object. Any other
            return value tells the view that the permissions are OK for the current
            user and that it should proceed.
        
        
        History
        ------------
        
        Since this application targets use-cases that are basically applicable to 
        most web-projects out there, there are tons of solutions similar to this one.
        In fact, this app is a fork originally from `django-chunks`_ developed by 
        Clint Ecker.
        
        In November 2008 Kevin Fricovsky created the `original fork`_ in order to add
        an additional "active"-flag to each chunk. That project was later on `forked 
        by Peter Baumgardner`_ who removed that flag again and added a "header"-field 
        in order to directly associate and optional title with each text block.
        
        This fork aims now to add more features like variable chunks and also
        integrate some of the features developed by H. Waara and S. Cranford in
        the `django-better-chunks`_ fork (``django.contrib.site``- and i18n-support).
        
        Releases
        --------
        
        0.5
            * Hungarian translation by Török Gábor
            * Method added to demo edit form (#5) by Bill Evans
        
        0.4
            * FlatBlock autocreation by Mikhail Korobov (can be enabled/disabled
              with FLATBLOCKS\_AUTOCREATE\_STATIC\_BLOCKS setting)
            * Various fixes by Mikhail Korobov
            * Fix by Henrik Heimbuerger for the manifest
        
        0.3.5
            * Russian translation by Mikhail Korobov
        
        0.3.4
            * Norwegian translation by Eivind Uggedal
        
        0.3.3
            * FlatBlock.save should also accept optional kwargs.
        
        0.3.2
            * All settings are now in the flatblocks.settings module
        
        0.3.1
            * Fixes a bug with FlatBlock.save() failing to reset the cache
            * Buildout integration for easier testing
            * Example urls.py and flatblocks/edit.html-template
        
        0.3
            * createflatblock and deleteflatblock commands
            * On saving a flatblock its cache will be cleared
            * As last argument of the template tag you can now also specify a template
              name.
        0.2
            * Translatable
            * ``flatblocks.views.edit`` view for editing flatblocks
        0.1
            Initial release
        
        .. _`original fork`: http://github.com/howiworkdaily/django-flatblock/
        .. _`django-chunks`: http://code.google.com/p/django-chunks/
        .. _`django-better-chunks`: http://bitbucket.org/hakanw/django-better-chunks/
        .. _`forked by Peter Baumgardner`: http://github.com/lincolnloop/django-flatblock/
        
Keywords: django apps
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Plugins
Classifier: Framework :: Django
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
