LBForum

Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Initialize The Database

LBForum is a quick and simple forum which uses the Django Framework (written in Python language). LBForum is a reusable Django application, can be added to any existing django project. LBForum is distributed under the BSD and GPL license.

Demo site(Skin FluxBB): http://vik.haoluobo.com/lbforum/ Demo site(Skin V2EX): http://vik.haoluobo.com/lbforum2/

Demo site's source: https://github.com/vicalloy/lbforum-site

Features

• user-friendly installation process
• the ease of integration into any Django project and the ease of installation
• classic view of the forum like FluxBB
• Allow users to upload attachments to their posts(by AJAX).
• avatar support(Gravatar or user upload)
• BBCode support
• friendly edtor(by markItUp!).
• Sticky threads (These threads are always sorted first in the list of threads)

Requirements

• Python 2.5+
• Django 1.3+
• PIL
• django-pagination
• south 0.7.2+
• postmarkup
• BeautifulSoup
• django-helper
• django-lb-attachments
• django-onlineuser
• django-simple-avatar

Installation

Installation

1. Install LBForum by easy_install or pip.

easy_install:

$ easy_install lbforum

pip:

$ pip install lbforum

Configuration

Config urls.py:

(r'^attachments/', include('attachments.urls')),
(r'^', include('lbforum.urls')),

The LBForum has some settings should be set in settings.py:

1. Add the following app to INSTALLED_APPS:

   'pagination',
   'south',
   'lbforum',
   'simpleavatar',
   'djangohelper',
   'onlineuser',
   'attachments',
   

2. Add the following middleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

   'pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware',
   'onlineuser.middleware.OnlineUserMiddleware',
   

3. add "djangohelper.context_processors.ctx_config", to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS:

   TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
       "django.core.context_processors.auth",
       "django.core.context_processors.debug",
       "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
       "django.core.context_processors.media",
       "django.core.context_processors.static",
       "django.core.context_processors.request",
   
       "djangohelper.context_processors.ctx_config",
   )
   

4. setting urls for lbforum:

   # URL prefix for lbforum media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a
   # trailing slash.
   # Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/".
   
   #The URL where requests are redirected after login
   LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
   #The URL where requests are redirected for login
   LOGIN_URL = "/accounts/login/"
   #LOGIN_URL counterpart
   LOGOUT_URL = "/accounts/logout/"
   #register url
   REGISTER_URL = '%saccounts/register/' % ROOT_URL
   

5. vars for templates:

   CTX_CONFIG = {
           'LBFORUM_TITLE': 'LBForum',
           'LBFORUM_SUB_TITLE': 'A forum engine written in Python using Django',
           'FORUM_PAGE_SIZE': 50,
           'TOPIC_PAGE_SIZE': 20,
   
           'LOGIN_URL': LOGIN_URL,
           'LOGOUT_URL': LOGOUT_URL,
           'REGISTER_URL': REGISTER_URL,
           }
   

6. settings for BBCODE:

   BBCODE_AUTO_URLS = True
   #add allow tags
   HTML_SAFE_TAGS = ['embed']
   HTML_SAFE_ATTRS = ['allowscriptaccess', 'allowfullscreen', 'wmode']
   #add forbid tags
   HTML_UNSAFE_TAGS = []
   HTML_UNSAFE_ATTRS = []
   
   """
   #default html safe settings
   acceptable_elements = ['a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'address', 'area', 'b', 'big',
       'blockquote', 'br', 'button', 'caption', 'center', 'cite', 'code', 'col',
       'colgroup', 'dd', 'del', 'dfn', 'dir', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em',
       'font', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img',
       'ins', 'kbd', 'label', 'legend', 'li', 'map', 'menu', 'ol',
       'p', 'pre', 'q', 's', 'samp', 'small', 'span', 'strike',
       'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'tfoot', 'th',
       'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'u', 'ul', 'var']
   acceptable_attributes = ['abbr', 'accept', 'accept-charset', 'accesskey',
       'action', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'border', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing',
       'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'checked', 'cite', 'clear', 'cols',
       'colspan', 'color', 'compact', 'coords', 'datetime', 'dir',
       'enctype', 'for', 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace',
       'id', 'ismap', 'label', 'lang', 'longdesc', 'maxlength', 'method',
       'multiple', 'name', 'nohref', 'noshade', 'nowrap', 'prompt',
       'rel', 'rev', 'rows', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'shape', 'size',
       'span', 'src', 'start', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'target', 'title', 'type',
       'usemap', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width', 'style']
   """
   

7. if you want to use skin v2ex, you should add the follow config to settings.py:

   #always show topic post in topic page.
   LBF_STICKY_TOPIC_POST = True
   #show last topic in index page
   LBF_LAST_TOPIC_NO_INDEX = True
   #add v2ex template dir to TEMPLATE_DIRS
   import lbforum
   V2EX_TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(lbforum.__path__[0], 'templates_v2ex')
   TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
           os.path.join(HERE, 'templates_plus'),
           os.path.join(HERE, 'templates_v2ex'),
           V2EX_TEMPLATE_DIR,
   )
   

Initialize The Database

1. Run command manage.py migrate