Using autocomplete plugin of jQuery with django

1. Download jQuery auto complete plugin here.

2. Unzip it.

3. Copy below files from the unzipped onto your javascript directory.

• jquery.autocomplete.css
• jquery.autocomplete.js
• jquery.bgiframes.min.js
• jquery.dimensions.js (from jquery.com)

4. Include them.

5. If you want to activate auto complete onto the html tag with id 'qwerty', add following code onto your js code area.

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#qwerty").autocomplete{
    '/ajax/autocomplete',
    {multiple: true, multipleSeparator: ', '}
  );
});

6. Setup urls.py so that it can handle '/ajax/autocomplete' with ajax_autocomplete module.

7. in views.py, make ajax_autocomplete module like,

def ajax_autocomplete(request):
  if request.GET.has_key('q'):
    # Write your code here (search dictionary or db, etc..)
    # And put it onto res (separated with '\n').
    return HttpResponse(res)
  return HttpResponse()

8. Done. Have fun :)

MSN proxy with ssh using Pidgin

If your company blocked MSN port and you have accessable server out of your company, use it as a proxy with ssh -D option.

Set tunnel with '>ssh -D 1234 yourserveraddress.com'.
(You can use any port number instead of 1234.)

Set proxy option in your pidgin.
Host : localhost
Port : 1234

That's all. Have fun.

Using django - Accounts

Django auth system is in django.contrib.auth.
(Included in INSTALLED_APPS as a default)

Login page
You can use default django login handler.

<urls.py>
urlpatterns = patterns('',
  ...
  (r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login')
<eof>

You need to make a template for login page.

<templates/registration/login.html>
 <form methos='post' action='.'>
  <label for='id_username'>Username : </label>
  {{ form.username }}
  <br>
  <label for='id_password'>Password : </label>
  {{ form.password }}
  <br>
  <input type='hidden' name='next' value='/'/>
  <input type='submit' value='Login'/>
 </form>
<eof>

User objects methods

• is_authenticated()


• get_full_name()


• email_user(subject, message, from_email=None)


• set_password(raw_password)


• check_password(raw_password)

Logout
<views.py>
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.contrib.auth import logout

def logout_page(request):
  logout(request)
  return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
<eof>

<urls.py>
  ...
  (r'^logout/$', logout_page),
  ...
<eof>