I've been using Django for 3+ years. But I learnt django-cms app few months ago. I found very well designed as it follows also django conventions and best practices. Here is my list:
1. cms
2. south
3. haystack
4. mptt
5. filebrowser
6. tinymce
7. cms_search
8. sorl.thumbnail
9. menus
....
+ project's own apps
I’m assuming that you’ve added these two middlewares in your settings.py as follows:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
... 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', )
Then you’ll be able to user object using request object like this: user = request.user
If you want to check whether the user is authenticated or not, then the wrong way to do this:
# Do not use
if request.user:
This will be true for both authenticated and anonymous user
Because request.user is not None or empty.
You can check this following any one of the two ways:
if request.user.id:
// recommended
if request.user.is_authenticated():
Follow these steps to log each server errors in your Django project:
1. Download the app from github
https://github.com/ershadul/server_errors
2. Add 'server_errors' in INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py
'server_errors',
3. Add the following middleware in settings.py
'server_errors.middleware.ServerErrorMiddleware',
4. Run syncdb command to create the tables
python manage.py syncdb
Follow the following steps to install PHP MongoDB driver on Mac OSX Snow Leopard
1. Go to /usr/local directory:
cd /usr/local
2. Download the following file:
curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
3. Install pear:
sudo php go-pear.phar
4. Install mongo driver:
sudo pecl install mongo
5. Copy php.ini:
sudo /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
6. Open your php.ini file and add to it:
extension=mongo.so