Pinax Forums

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Overview
- Supported Django and Python versions
Documentation
Change Log
History
Contribute
Code of Conduct
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License

About Pinax

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. It is an ecosystem of reusable Django apps, themes, and starter project templates. This collection can be found at http://pinaxproject.com.

pinax-forums

Overview

pinax-forums is an extensible forums app for Django and Pinax. It is focused on core forum functionality and hence is expected to be combined with other Pinax apps for broader features.

Supported Django and Python versions

Django \ Python	2.7	3.4	3.5	3.6
1.11	*	*	*	*
2.0		*	*	*

Documentation

Installation

To install pinax-forums:

$ pip install pinax-forums

Add pinax.forums to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # other apps
    "pinax.forums",
]

Add pinax.forums.urls to your project urlpatterns:

urlpatterns = [
    # other urls
    url(r"^forums/", include("pinax.forums.urls", namespace="pinax_forums")),
]

Settings

PINAX_FORUMS_EDIT_TIMEOUT

Allow changes for up to PINAX_FORUMS_EDIT_TIMEOUT seconds after creating a post. Once this period has expired the post is no longer editable.

PINAX_FORUMS_HOOKSET

Templates

The templates referenced by pinax-forums code must be supplied by the user. Place template files in a pinax/forums/ subfolder in your project template search path.

`category.html`

`forum.html`

`forums.html`

`post_create.html`

`post_edit.html`

`reply_create.html`

`subscribe.html`

`thread.html`

`thread_updates.html`

`unsubscribe.html`

Change Log

1.0.2

Allow use with any account-management package by removing django-user-accounts dependency

1.0.1

Add django>=1.11 to installation requirements
Update CI configuration
Delete unused files
Update documentation
Fix license target link

1.0.0

Add Django 2.0 compatibility testing
Drop Django 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, and Python 3.3 support
Move documentation into README and standardize layout
Convert CI and coverage to CircleCi and CodeCov
Add PyPi-compatible long description

History

pinax-forums was originally built by Eldarion and called agora. It incorporates code and ideas from various client projects. The clients were kind enough to allow Eldarion to open source the app and contribute it to Pinax.

Contribute

For an overview on how contributing to Pinax works read this blog post and watch the included video, or read our How to Contribute section. For concrete contribution ideas, please see our Ways to Contribute/What We Need Help With section.

In case of any questions we recommend you join our Pinax Slack team and ping us there instead of creating an issue on GitHub. Creating issues on GitHub is of course also valid but we are usually able to help you faster if you ping us in Slack.

We also highly recommend reading our blog post on Open Source and Self-Care.

Code of Conduct

In order to foster a kind, inclusive, and harassment-free community, the Pinax Project has a code of conduct. We ask you to treat everyone as a smart human programmer that shares an interest in Python, Django, and Pinax with you.

Connect with Pinax

For updates and news regarding the Pinax Project, please follow us on Twitter @pinaxproject and check out our Pinax Project blog.