My Django Blogging App
Why yet another django blogging app?
About a month ago, I finally decided to put my blogging application up on github. Now I know there are hundreds of blogging engines out there, and many of them are far better than the one I've created, but it was important for me to develop and keep extending my own, for the purpose of learning more. This is probably the biggest reason why I dont use some of the more well known blogging frameworks, such as Wordpress, or even django-mingus (which by the way looks like an excellent project).
If anyone is interested in having a peek at the code, or even using the app in your own projects, feel free to look it up here: http://github.com/andrewebdev/tehblog
I'm currently using it on this website, as well as a couple of others, and is great for my current use case.
If you do decide to play with it, please do me a favor and log any issues you may find on the issue tracker, and if you have any feature suggestions you can also add it there, since I like everything to be in one place.
I am also planning to write a short Example of how I integrated FCKEditor into the django admin, and developed my own media library application, that allows adding images relatively easilly into the FCKEditor, so be on the lookout if you are interested.
Here is a quick preview of what that looks like:
Andre - on 14 Mar 2010
Hi Jitesh,
There is actually nothing special about ingegrating fckeditor. Depending on your version of fckeditor, either follow the documentation for ckeditor 2.x or ckeditor 3.x.
Next you need to Customize the django admin pages for the specific application where you want fckeditor to be used. See the django documentation here on how to do this.
The template you want to override for the app is "change_form.html". You want to place your scripts and styles for CKEditor in the extrahead block at the top.
The field that you want ckeditor to load is typically the field name, prefixed with "id_". So for example, if you want to use ckeditor in the content field for flatpages, then you will tell ckeditor to use "id_content".
I hope this little bit of information is enough to get you started. You brought up a good point however, that a tutorial may be useful for this task. Maybe I'll write one in the near future.
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Jitesh - on 14 Mar 2010
Hi Andre, I am new to django, and I am trying to integrate fckeditor with django so if its possible for you then plz. help me how to integrate fckeditor for user forms and also for django admin pages. Or specify any link if you have already written any tutorial on the same.
Thanks jitesh