django-menuz

DJANGO MENUZ

Django Menuz is another menu app for Django.

It mainly inspired by how easy menu creation ini WordPress. Django Menuz provides template tags to call menu in specified location.

With it's drag and drop features, its easy to re-order the menu item position.

INSTALLATION AND USAGE:

Once you install it via setup.py, easy_install or pip.

• Add menuz into your INSTALLED_APPS Django settings.py file.

• Please make sure django.core.context_processors.request available in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.

• Also add url config below into projects urls configuration. ::

  url(r'', include('menuz.urls')),

• Register all available menu positions in project settings.py by adding AVAILABLE_MENUS parameter. example: ::

  AVAILABLE_MENUS = ( { 'id': 'top_menu', 'title': _('Top Menu'), 'type': 'UL', #optional, default UL. alternative 'OL' 'class': 'someclass', #optional, output:

  • BBBTitle
  • TitleAAA

  { 'id': 'footer_menu', 'title': _('Footer Menu'), 'type': 'UL', 'class': None, },

  { 'id': 'left_menu', 'title': _('Left Menu'), 'type': 'OL', 'class': None, }, )

  • If you have few fix/static url into your application and want to include so it's will be selectable as a menu items, add AVAILABLE_INNERLINKS in your project settings.py. ::

    AVAILABLE_INNERLINKS = ( ('/this_page/', 'This Page'), ('/that_page/', 'That Page'), ('/categories/', 'Categories Page'), ('/collections/', 'Collections Page'), ... ... etc. )

  • Above links must inbound link, not links to other sites(outbound link).

  • For Outbound link menu, use Custom link in menu creation admin page.

  MODEL MENU

  • To create a menu based on Django model items, simply create menu.py in application directory, this is in the same level as application urls.py and register our model as following example (file: menu.py). ::

    file: menu.py

    from menuz.registry import menuz from catalog.models import Product

    menuz.register(Product)

  • Or if you want to do some filtering before registering it into menuz do as follows (file: menu.py). ::

    from menuz.registry import menuz from catalog.models import Product

    def active_product(): return Product.objects.filter(active=True)

    menuz.register(Product, custom_source=active_product)

  We registering extra callback that will be called when menuz will display selectable menu items in admin area, that way, the menu item selector will not display all available products, but will display active products only.

  IMPORTANT:

  To make Model menu items links correctly to its url, your model must utilize get_absolute_url() function. Because this is the only standard way to retrieve object urls, at least for django-menuz.

  example: ::

  from django.db import models
  
  class Page(models.Model):
      title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
      slug = models.SlugField()
  
      @models.permalink
      def get_absolute_url(self):
          return ('some_page', None, {'slug': self.slug})
  

  CALLING MENU ITEMS IN TEMPLATE

  example calling menu items as html list ::

  {% load 'menuz_tags' %}
  {% list_menu 'top_menu' %}
  

  example calling menu items as template context

  This implementation does not support hierarchical menu, please use list_menu tag if you need that feature. ::

  {% load menuz_tags %}
  {% get_menu top_menu as tmenu %}
  
  <h2>{{tmenu_title}}</h2>
  <ul>
      {% for item in tmenu %}
      <li><a href="{{item.url}}">{{item.title}}</a></li>
      {% endfor %}
  </ul>
  

  Please note on the above example, when you assign a menu to a variable named somevar, you can display the menu title by adding _title suffix after the variable name.

  In the case above, the variable name is tmenu and the title will be available in variable named tmenu_title.

  TESTING

  In case you want to run a test for this app, you need to install Django-nose first https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-nose (please refer to Django-nose docs on how to install).

  Then run the test by running command below: ::

  python manage.py test menuz