Django Mptt Comments

Django Mptt Comments is a simple way to display threaded comments. It uses django-mptt to extend django-contrib-comments (ex. django.contrib.comments).

This fork contains some quick fixes to make it work with the Django 1.6 (and maybe 1.7).

Installation

Get the required third party modules

pip install django-mptt
pip install django-template-utils
pip install django-contrib-comments

Add the needed apps to INSTALLED_APPS

'django_comments',
'template_utils',
'mptt',
'mptt_comments'

You may also need to configure MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

Configure your root urls.py

url(r'^comments/', include('mptt_comments.urls')),
url(r'^jsi18n/(?P<packages>\S+?)/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog'),

Set COMMENTS_APP variable in the settings.py

Add following to your settings.py:

COMMENTS_APP = 'mptt_comments'

Add the required code to the objects detail page (see Usage)

Copy the templates to adapt them for your site

Style the forms using css

Example usage

To display the toplevel tree in templates:

{% load mptt_comments_tags %}

{% block extrahead %}
{% include "comments/comments_media.html" %}
{% endblock extrahead %}

{% block content %}

{% if object %}
  {% display_comment_toplevel_for object %}
{% endif %}

{% endblock content %}

object is any model object instance you want attach comments to. Usage is uqual to django-contrib-comments (django.contrib.comments).

Django-mptt-comments uses jQuery for AJAX, you may need to add it to your template.

Django-mptt-comments can use django-notification for notifying users about replies, friends posts e.t.c. (see mptt_comments/management.py for notification types supported).

Pagination

You can also use pagination in toplevel tree by adding this settings:

# Enable pagination (default: False)
MPTT_COMMENTS_PAGINATION = True
# Comments per page (default: 50)
MPTT_COMMENTS_PAGINATION_PAGE_LENGTH = 30

Additional settings

MPTT_COMMENTS_OFFSET: Number of comments displayed before "read more" link appears. Default: 20.

MPTT_COMMENTS_TOPLEVEL_OFFSET: Default: 20.

MPTT_COMMENTS_CUTOFF: Depth of comments to be shown. Default: 3.

MPTT_COMMENTS_COLLAPSE_ABOVE: Default: 2.

MPTT_COMMENTS_COLLAPSE_BELOW_DETAIL: Default: True.

MPTT_COMMENTS_SEND_NOTICES_FOR_NONPUBLIC: Default: True.