django-favit

A simple reusable app for django that makes it easy to deal with faving and unfaving any object from any application.

Installation

• Install django-favit in your vilrtual env:

pip install django-favit

• Add the app to your settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
  ...
  "favit",
  ...
]

• Add favit urls to your project's urls.py file:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
  ...
  (r'^favit/', include('favit.urls')),
  ...
)

• Sync your database:

python manage.py syncdb

• Make sure you have jQuery ajax CSRF configuration right

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/csrf/#ajax

Usage:

Template tags:

• Get the favorited objects for a given user:

{% with user_favorites <user> "app_label.model" as favorite_list %}
    {% for fav_obj in favorite_list %}
        {# do something with fav_obj #}
    {% endfor %}
{% endwith %}

• Given an object obj you may show it fav count like this:

<p>Favorite Count {{ obj|favorites_count }}</p>

• Get Favorite instance for an object (obj) and a user (user)

{% with obj|get_favorite_for:user as fav_object %}
    ...
{% endwith %}

• Favorite Button for an object my_obj:

{% favorite_button my_obj %}

Favorites Manager

• Create a Favorite instance for a user and object:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from music.models import Song
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> song = Song.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> fav = Favorite.objects.create(user, song)

or:

>>> fav = Favorite.objects.create(user, 1, Song)

or:

>>> fav = Favorite.objects.create(user, 1, "music.Song")

• Get the objects favorited by a given user:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> Favorite.objects.for_user(user)
>>> [<Favorite: Favorite object 1>, <Favorite: Favorite object 2>, <Favorite: Favorite object 3>]

• Now, get user favorited objects belonging to a given model:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from music.models import Song
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> Favorite.objects.for_user(user, model=Song)
>>> [<Favorite: Favorite object 1>, <Favorite: Favorite object 2>, <Favorite: Favorite object 3>]

• Get the favorited object instances of a given model favorited by any user:

>>> from music.models import Song
>>> Favorite.objects.for_model(Song)
>>> [<Favorite: Favorite object 1>, <Favorite: Favorite object 2>, <Favorite: Favorite object 3>]

• Get a Favorite instance for a given object and user:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from music.models import Song
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> song = Song.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> fav = Favorite.objects.get_favorite(user, song)

• Get all Favorite instances for a given object

>>> from music.models import Song
>>> song = Song.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> fav = Favorite.objects.for_object(song)