The followit django app allows to easily set up a
capability for the site users to follow various things on the site,
represented by django model followit.models.FollowRecord
using the django.contrib.models.ContentTypes system.
Release Notes
Starting the version 0.1.0, django-followit supports django 1.7.
Also starting this version, method register must be called from your app's
AppConfig.ready() method.
Starting the version 0.0.8 it is not necessary to run syncdb for this app,
but instead run the migrate command.
Setup
To the INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py add entry 'followit'.
Once that is done, in your shell run:
python manage.py migrate followit
- Then, in the body of AppConfig.ready method, add::
- import followit followit.register(Thing)
Now it will be possible for the user to follow instances of SomeModel.
If you decide to allow following another model, just add another
followit.register(...) statement.
Usage
Examples below show how to use followit (assuming that model Thing
is registered with followit in your models.py:
bob.follow_thing(x) bob.unfollow_thing(x) things = bob.get_followed_things() x_followers = x.get_followers()
- Available urls from the followit/urls.py::
/follow/<model_name>/<item_id>/
{% url follow_object "somemodel" item_id %} #model name lower case
/unfollow/<model_name>/<item_id>/
{% url unfollow_object "somemodel" item_id %} #lower case model name
/toggle-follow/<model_name>/<item_id>/
{% url toggle_follow_object "somemodel" item_id %} #lower case model name
followit does not yet provide template tags.