Inside Mezzanine

For SyDjango Oct 2015 I presented a talk on the core features of Mezzanine and how they're implemented using Django. The aim was to demonstrate the simplicity of Mezzanine, and show the audience how they could build their own CMS using Django.

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1. @stephen_mcd Inside SyDjango, Oct 2015
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3. class Page(models.Model): title = models.CharField("Title") slug = models.CharField("URL") parent = models.ForeignKey("Page", related_name="children", null=True) order = models.IntegerField("Order") content_model = models.CharField( editable=False)
4. {% page_menu %} pages = {} for page in Page.objects.all(): parent_id = page.parent_id if parent_id not in pages: pages[parent_id] = [] pages[parent_id].append(page) def show_branch(parent_id, depth=0): for page in pages[parent_id]: print (" " * depth) + page.title if page.id in pages: show_branch(page.id, depth + 1)
5. class RichTextPage(Page): pass class Form(Page): pass class Gallery(Page): pass
6. class Page(models.Model): def save(self, *args, **kwargs): self.slug = slugify(self.title) self.content_model = self._meta.object_name super(Page, self).save(*args, **kwargs) def get_content_model(self): return getattr(self, self.content_model) @staticmethod def get_content_models(): return [m for m in get_models() if m is not Page and issubclass(m, Page)]
8. class RichTextPage(Page): pass class Form(Page): pass class Gallery(Page): pass > richtextpage.html > form.html > gallery.html
10. mezzanine.conf.settings register_setting( name="ACCOUNTS_APPROVAL_REQUIRED", label="New accounts require approval?", editable=True, default=False, ) register_setting( name="ACCOUNTS_APPROVAL_EMAILS", label="Account approval email addresses", editable=True, default="", )
11. >>> from mezzanine.conf import settings >>> settings.INSTALLED_APPS [‘mezzanine.core’, ‘mezzanine.pages’, ‘foo’, ‘bar’] >>> settings.ACCOUNTS_APPROVAL_REQUIRED True
12. Batteries Included: - Keywords, ratings, threaded comments - Search - Multi-lingual content - Accounts, registration, profiles - Multi-tenancy - Image thumbnailing - Caching - Bootstrap + live editing - Deployment tooling - Ecommerce: cartridge.jupo.org - Forum: drum.jupo.org - Themes: mezzathe.me ~ 70 Packages: bit.ly/MezzPackages
13. mezzanineCMS.com