Alacarte
django-alacarte is a minimalist menu app for Django.
Installation
$ pip install django-alacarteUsage
Add "alacarte" to your INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...,
'alacarte',
)In your root urls.py add the following code:
# ...
import alacarte
alacarte.autodiscover()
# Your url patternsNote: You don't need this if you use Django >= 1.7, autodiscovery is made automatically with AppConfig.
Create a file called menu.py inside the app of your choice and register its corresponding menus:
import alacarte
class BankTransactionsMenu(alacarte.Menu):
label = 'Transactions'
url_name = 'bank_transactions'
class BankBalanceMenu(alacarte.Menu):
label = 'Balance'
url_name = 'bank_balance'
class BankPremiumMenu(alacarte.Menu):
label = 'Premium Offers'
url_name = 'bank_premium_offers'
def shown(self)
user = self.context['user']
return user.is_premium()
class BankMenu(alacarte.Menu):
group = 'main'
label = 'Bank'
submenus = (
BankTransactionsMenu(),
BankBalanceMenu(),
BankPremiumMenu(),
)
def shown(self):
user = self.context['user']
return user.is_authenticated()
alacarte.register(BankMenu)Then in your template:
{% load alacarte %}
{# ... #}
{# ... #}
{% alacarte "main" %}
{# ... #}
{# ... #}Support
- Django >= 1.3
- Tested on Python 2.7 and 3.4
django-alacarte is not related to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alacarte
