I'm totally understanding the documentation on expanding the Comments app in Django, and really would like to stick with the automatic functionality but...
In the current app, I have absolutely no use for an "URL" to be submitted along with a comment.
Being minimally invasive of the default setup, how can I prevent this field from showing up with the comment form?
Using Django 1, or Trunk, and as many generic/built-ins as possible (generic views, default comments set up, etc. I have only a single generic view wrapper so far).
This is well documented under customizing the comments framework.
All your app will use is get_form
, returning a subclass of the CommentForm
with the url field popped. Something like:
class NoURLCommentForm(CommentForm):
"""
A comment form which matches the default djanago.contrib.comments one, but
doesn't have a URL field.
"""
NoURLCommentForm.base_fields.pop('url')
I can't comment onto SmileyChris' post for some reason, so I am going to post it here. But, I ran into errors using just SmileyChris' response. You also have to overwrite the get_comment_create_data function because CommentForm is going to look for those Post keys that you removed. So here's my code after I removed three fields.
class SlimCommentForm(CommentForm):
"""
A comment form which matches the default djanago.contrib.comments one, but with 3 removed fields
"""
def get_comment_create_data(self):
# Use the data of the superclass, and remove extra fields
return dict(
content_type = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self.target_object),
object_pk = force_unicode(self.target_object._get_pk_val()),
comment = self.cleaned_data["comment"],
submit_date = datetime.datetime.now(),
site_id = settings.SITE_ID,
is_public = True,
is_removed = False,
)
SlimCommentForm.base_fields.pop('url')
SlimCommentForm.base_fields.pop('email')
SlimCommentForm.base_fields.pop('name')
This is the function that you are overwriting
def get_comment_create_data(self):
"""
Returns the dict of data to be used to create a comment. Subclasses in
custom comment apps that override get_comment_model can override this
method to add extra fields onto a custom comment model.
"""
return dict(
content_type = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self.target_object),
object_pk = force_unicode(self.target_object._get_pk_val()),
user_name = self.cleaned_data["name"],
user_email = self.cleaned_data["email"],
user_url = self.cleaned_data["url"],
comment = self.cleaned_data["comment"],
submit_date = datetime.datetime.now(),
site_id = settings.SITE_ID,
is_public = True,
is_removed = False,
)
My quick and dirty solution: I made the the 'email' and 'url' fields hidden fields, with an arbitrary value to get rid of 'this field is required' errors.
It's not elegant, but it's quick and I didn't have to subclass CommentForm. All the work of adding comments was done in the template, which is nice. It looks like this (warning: not tested, since it's a simplified version of my actual code):
{% get_comment_form for entry as form %}
<form action="{% comment_form_target %}" method="post"> {% csrf_token %}
{% for field in form %}
{% if field.name != 'email' and field.name != 'url' %}
<p> {{field.label}} {{field}} </p>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="foo@foo.foo" />
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://www.foofoo.com" />
<input type="hidden" name="next" value='{{BASE_URL}}thanks_for_your_comment/' />
<input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post" value="Post">
</form>