You may still be able to use the built-in django-comments, as it's
easy to customize (especially if your just adding extra fields). You
can read about it here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/comments/custom/#ref-contrib-comments-custom
Gene
On May 14, 12:59 pm, Oleg Oltar <oltarase...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the problem with built in comments framework is that I need few more
> fields in comments.
>
> What I created is:
>
> MODEL:
>
> class Comment(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(max_length = 30)
> body = models.CharField(max_length = 2000)
> article = models.ForeignKey(Article)
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return u"%s" %(self.name)
>
> FORM:
>
> class CommentForm(forms.Form):
> '''
> The Register form is created to deal with registration process
> check if data is clean and passwords match each other
> '''
> username = forms.CharField(label='Name', max_length=30)
> body = forms.CharField(required = True,
> label = 'Comment Body',
> widget=forms.Textarea)
>
> def clean_body(self):
> if 'body' in self.cleaned_data:
> body = self.cleaned_data['body']
> if not re.search(r'^\w+$', username):
> raise forms.ValidationError('Error: body can contains \
> only alphanumeric characters')
>
> VIEW:
>
> def article_page(request, page_name):
> article = get_object_or_404(models.Article, url = page_name)
> articles_list =
> models.Article.objects.exclude(is_published__exact="0").order_by("-pub_date")
>
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = CommentForm(request.POST)
> # Creating a comment
> if form.is_valid():
> comment = Comment(
> name = from.cleaned_data['name'],
> body = form.cleaned_data['body'],
> article = ????
> )
>
> return render_to_response('article.html',
> {'section': article.title,
> 'article' : article,
> 'articles' : articles_list}
> )
>
> Not sure how to fill the article field :(
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Oleg
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Daniel Roseman <
>
> roseman.dan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 12, 10:51 am, Oleg Oltar <oltarase...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I am running small blog-styled information site. Which contains articles
> > > added via admin application
> > > Now I am trying to add possibility to add comments, so I defined a
> > comment
> > > Model (which contains Foreign Key to article object, and few text
> > fields),
> > > also defined forms.
>
> > > Can you please explain how should I create a comment object in view?
> > (After
> > > processing data from form). I don't understand where can I get, the
> > article
> > > name (id, guid or something) to link article and comment
>
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Oleg
>
> > Firstly, have you investigated the built-in comment app? It's quite
> > full-featured, and may do everything you want.
>
> > Assuming you've decided that your own model is the way to go, the
> > answer to your question will depend on the way you've defined your
> > form and view. Presumably the comment form is displayed at the bottom
> > of an article page, so you'll already have the ID of the article - so
> > I don't really understand what your issue is. Perhaps you could post
> > the code you have so far?
> > --
> > DR.
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