=================================== Integrate with other applications =================================== Delegate the rendering of a page to an application =================================================== By delegating the rendering of a page to another application, you will be able to use customized views and still get all the CMS variables to render a proper navigation. First you need a `urls.py` file that you can register to the CMS. It might look like this:: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from basic_cms.testproj.documents.views import document_view from basic_cms.http import pages_view urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^doc-(?P[0-9]+)$', pages_view(document_view), name='document_details'), url(r'^$', pages_view(document_view), name='document_root'), ) .. note:: The decorator `pages_view` call the CMS if the context variables `current_page` and `pages_navigation` are not present in the arguments. It's not necessary to decorate your views if you only call them via the CMS or you don't need those variables. Then you need to register the urlconf module of your application to use it within the admin interface. Put this code in you urls.py `before` admin.autodiscover(). Here is an example for a document application.:: from basic_cms.urlconf_registry import register_urlconf register_urlconf('Documents', 'pages.testproj.documents.urls', label='Display documents') # this need to be executed after the registry happened. admin.autodiscover() As soon as you have registered your `urls.py`, a new field will appear in the page administration. Choose the `Display documents`. The view used to render this page on the frontend is now choosen by `pages.testproj.documents.urls`. .. note:: The path passed to your urlconf module is the remaining path available after the page slug. Eg: `/pages/page1/doc-1` will become `doc-1`. .. note:: If you want to have the reverse URLs with your delegated application, you will need to include your URLs into your main urls.py, eg:: (r'^pages/', include('pages.urls')), ... (r'^pages/(?P.*)', include('pages.testproj.documents.urls')), Here is an example of a valid view from the documents application:: from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from django.template import RequestContext from basic_cms.testproj.documents.models import Document def document_view(request, *args, **kwargs): context = RequestContext(request, kwargs) if kwargs.get('current_page', False): documents = Document.objects.filter(page=kwargs['current_page']) context['documents'] = documents if kwargs.has_key('document_id'): document = Document.objects.get(pk=int(kwargs['document_id'])) context['document'] = document context['in_document_view'] = True return render_to_response('pages/examples/index.html', context) The `document_view` will receive a bunch of extra parameters related to the CMS: * `current_page` the page object, * `path` the path used to reach the page, * `lang` the current language, * `pages_navigation` the list of pages used to render navigation. .. note:: If the field doesn't appear within the admin interface make sure that your registry code is executed properly. .. note:: Look at the testproj in the repository for an example on how to integrate an external application. .. _3rd-party-apps: Integrate application models and forms into the page admin ========================================================== If you don't want to sublass the PageAdmin class Basic CMS provides an alternative way to integrate external application into the page's administration interface. For this you need an object with foreign key pointing to a page:: class Document(models.Model): "A dummy model used to illustrate the use of linked models in Basic CMS" title = models.CharField(_('title'), max_length=100, blank=False) text = models.TextField(_('text'), blank=True) # You need a foreign key to the page object, and it must be named page page = models.ForeignKey(Page) class DocumentForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = Document After that you need to set up the PAGE_CONNECTED_MODELS into your settings similar to this one:: PAGE_CONNECTED_MODELS = [{ 'model':'documents.models.Document', 'form':'documents.models.DocumentForm', 'options':{ 'extra': 3, 'max_num': 10, }, },] When you edit a page, you should see a form to create/update/delete a Document object linked to this page. .. _sitemaps: Sitemaps ================= Django Basic CMS provide 2 sitemaps classes to use with `Django sitemap framework `_:: from basic_cms.views import PageSitemap, MultiLanguagePageSitemap (r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': {'pages':PageSitemap}}), # or for multi language: (r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': {'pages':MultiLanguagePageSitemap}}) The `PageSitemap` class provide a sitemap for every published page in the default language. The `MultiLanguagePageSitemap` is gonna create an extra entry for every other language.