My Problem is, I want to create a extra website on a phpBB forum to provide extra stuff and registration for meeting. No problem I know django and python, so this is no problem.
But I would be nice, if I could accept a session from a user or import the phpBB users so that they can login to my app.
I found django-phpBB, but I don't want to access the data. If I read correctly, my case is not the use case of django-phpBB.
Can anybody give me a good advice?
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I have been developing in django for sometime now, and have developed a neat website having functionality such as writing blogs, posting questions, sharing content etc. However there is still one thing that is missing and i.e. creating notification for users.
What I want to do is to inform users in their profiles, whenever somebody comments on their posts, or if they are following a particular post and there is an update on it, then inform the user of that update. I have looked around many applications but I am still very confused about how to do it.
In case of using django-notification I seem to have an impression(which can be wrong) that I can use this only to inform the user via email, i.e. I cannot show these notifications in the user profile, just like we have on facebook.
Firstly I would like to know if I am wrong, and then I really need some proper tutorial or guidance on how to go about doing it. I know how to register a notification and send it on proper signal but there is no documentation on how to show these notices in a template, if this can be done.
Any guidance/tutorial/getting started doc will be deeply appreciated.
Websockets are simple and very useful in terms of bi-directional communication between clients and servers. If your app's features list grows it will be possible that you will need additional events in your app. WS will help you to scale.
I am a beginner and still learning Django. I am wondering how can I build a personal site for each account like Facebook , Instagram, etc.Thank you very much. English is not my first language.
That's a pretty big subject, so I am just going to give some pointers.
So you will need to keep track of users. It makes sense to use Djangos auth functionality as it most likely covers what you need to do already. (Unless of course your user needs some specific functionality not overed by Django's oen Auth User objects.)
This guy has a decent blog post on how to do that. You will need to write your own templates, and configure the urls, but most other stuff is done for you.
https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/06/27/how-to-use-djangos-built-in-login-system.html
Then you are going to have to associate models in your application with users. So say you have an facebook type clone. Each Post would have a foreign key to a user. You are also going to need to set permissions so that only appropriate people can view appropriate posts. To be fair there in't an easy answer to this question as it depends a lot on the specifics of what you want to do.
I am trying to authenticate my django application written in python with okta IDP. I have almost configured everything at SP side and IDP side too. Now I need to pass a custom variable from IDP which assert SP that user is a publisher,editor or admin and further save this to the django format database (in auth_user_groups table). Anyone have tried doing this, or anyone has idea about this?
I am able to get the custom variable values by attributes mappings from IDP. But this allows me to save the custom attributes only on the user table. please let me know if i have not made myself clear here about my question.
Once again I have a privilege to answer my own question. So hear is the solution.
Django has a user profile module which is to be turned on by giving the module location in the settings.py
i.e -
"AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = appTitle.UserProfile"
The UserProfile needs to be specified in modules.py specifying the required structure of user profile u need for your app.
Now doing sync -db django creates the Database table for your user profile and further on the same user profile pysaml adds the value (CustomAttribute) which come on the saml Assertion.
more explanations on this can be found on django documentations too.
If any one still faces any issue please let me know.
Taking into account that I barely know python and am simply following the "hello-world" example here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/
I'm unclear as to how I would: use a "MainHandler" class mapped to '/' as a welcome page, ask the user to login and then only allow logged-in users to access a "EditorHandler" class mapped to '/editor'
You've asked a very broad question, and provided no details about what (if any) framework you're planning to use to implement your app. I guess you are probably using webapp?
The basic idea would be to create a login url that you redirect the user to, or you provide to them. If you want them redirected to an edit page on your app, you can specify a dest_url when calling create_login_url:
users.create_login_url(dest_url='/edit')
Within your code you can secure your edit handler easily in app.yaml or with the '#login_required' decorator, depending on how you've setup your app.
This seems to work: http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/recipe/login-decorator
Although I dont understand the magic behind most of it, it's probably due to my lack of python skills.
Some comments on that article also point to more "native" solutions:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/webapp/utilmodule.html
I need to be able to create forms from admin panel. Process would look like this:
I click on "Add form" then I enter email to which the form should be sent and of course several fields (probably thanks to inlines) consisting of field name, type and if it is required. User should be able to view and fill the form and submit it and the data should be sent to the email given in admin.
Everything looks pretty straightforward but from my point of view it need some metaclass programming skills.
Could anyone point me to a goot form builder for Django or at least hand some tips about creating such thing? I found django-forms-builder but it is a bit too restricted imho.
I know this one's a few months old but I just though I'd post an update here anyway for anyone else that comes along.
django-forms-builder has just been rewritten to do exactly what you were looking for when you originally posted this question.
You can find the new version at http://github.com/stephenmcd/django-forms-builder or http://bitbucket.org/stephenmcd/django-forms-builder
There are many alternatives, although not many of them are actively maintained:
https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/form-builder/
If you want to have a full control of what's happening (change fields for your needs or add new ones, add captcha or honeypot, add custom handling of form data, use form wizards or even use your forms via web REST API), use django-fobi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-fobi