django-flatpages-i18n

django-flatpages-i18n

Translatable version of django.contrib.flatpages with menu support.

Requirements

• Django
• django_modeltrans
• django_mptt
• django-pragmatic

Tested with Django 1.8.

Installation

• Install python library using pip: pip install django-flatpages-i18n

• Add mptt, modeltrans and flatpages_i18n to INSTALLED_APPS in your Django settings file

• Migrate your database

• Specify desired languages in your Django settings file::

  from django.utils.translation import gettext

  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en' LANGUAGES = ( ('en', gettext('English')), ('de', gettext('German')), )

• Addd 'flatpages_i18n.urls' to your urls.py::

  if 'flatpages_i18n' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS: urlpatterns += i18n_patterns( path(pgettext_lazy('url', 'pages/'), include('flatpages_i18n.urls')), )

Usage

To get all flatpages: '''''''''''''''''''''

In your HTML template::

{% load i18n flatpages_i18n %}
{% get_flatpages_i18n as flatpages_i18n %}

<ul>
    {% for flatpage in flatpages_i18n %}
        <li><a href="{{ flatpage.get_absolute_url }}">{{ flatpage }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

To get flatpage by its PK::

{% get_flatpage_i18n 123 as my_flatpage %}
{{ my_flatpage.content_i18n }}

or by its machine_name::

{% get_flatpage_i18n 'my-flatpage' as my_flatpage %}

Menu system: ''''''''''''

To print all menu items::

<div id="navigation">
    {% menu_i18n %}
</div>

to get only children of menu item identified by its PK::

<div id="navigation">
    {% menu_i18n 2 %}
</div>

or by its machine_name::

<div id="navigation">
    {% menu_i18n 'footer-menu' %}
</div>

You can also assign menu items into variable::

{% get_menu_i18n 'my-menu' as my_menu %}
{% for item in my_menu %}
    <a href="{{ item.get_absolute_url }}" target="{{ item.target }}">{{ item }}</a>
{% endfor %}

Authors

Library is by Erik Telepovsky from Pragmatic Mates. See our other libraries.

.. _Pragmatic Mates: http://www.pragmaticmates.com/ .. _our other libraries: https://github.com/PragmaticMates