Welcome to django-reviews’s documentation!

Installation

To install just do:

  1. python setup.py install or easy_install django-reviews
  2. Add reviews to INSTALLED_APPS.
  3. Add django-reviews’ urls to urls.py
  4. Add django.core.context_processors.request to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS (If it isn’t already).

Settings

There are several settings which you can use within settings.py:

REVIEWS_IS_MODERATED

If True the admin has to publish a review manually. Otherwise a review is public right after it has been added.

REVIEWS_SHOW_PREVIEW

If True a preview is displayed to the user before he can submit the review.

REVIEWS_IS_EMAIL_REQUIRED

If True the e-mail field of the review is mandatory. (if the user is anonymous)

REVIEWS_IS_NAME_REQUIRED

If True the name field of the review is mandatory. (if the user is anonymous)

Usage

Add the provided tags to your templates:

{% load reviews_tags %}

<html>
    <head>
        <title>{{ flatpage.title }}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        {{ flatpage.content }}
        {% average_for_instance flatpage %}

        <hr>
        {% reviews_for_instance flatpage %}

    </body>
</html>

Example

There is a simple example provided with this product.

To install it just make sure django.contrib.flatpages has been installed (a flatpage will serve as our test content) and add reviews.example to INSTALLED_APPS.

Now add a flatpage and browse to it. You should be able to add reviews to the flatpage now.

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