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# Django Settings

Modifying the message tags - for convenience

MESSAGE_TAGS = {
    messages.DEBUG: 'info',
    messages.INFO: 'info',
    messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
    messages.WARNING: 'warning',
    messages.ERROR: 'danger',
}

Template Location and template tags

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        'libraries':{
                        'filename':  'yourproject.templatetags',
                        'file_exists': 'yourproject.templatetags',

            }
        },
    },
]

Inside the templatetags.py file - Same Directory as yourproject

import os
from django import template
from django.core.files.storage import default_storage

register = template.Library()


@register.filter
def filename(value):
    return os.path.basename(value.file.name)


@register.filter
def file_exists(value):
    if default_storage.exists(value):
        return True
    else:
        return False

Databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'databasename',
        'USER': 'databaseuser',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '',
    }
}

Timezone

TIME_ZONE = 'Africa/Johannesburg'

Media and static files

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static')]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'staticfiles')

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'uploads')
MEDIA_URL = '/uploads/'

SMTP Configuration

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'email.host'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'hi@email.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'hi@email.com'

Login and redirect url

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'dashboard'
LOGIN_URL = 'login'

Django Resized

DJANGORESIZED_DEFAULT_SIZE = [500, 500]
DJANGORESIZED_DEFAULT_QUALITY = 75
DJANGORESIZED_DEFAULT_KEEP_META = True
DJANGORESIZED_DEFAULT_NORMALIZE_ROTATION = True
DJANGORESIZED_DEFAULT_FORMAT_EXTENSIONS = {'PNG': ".png"}

If you are using TinyMCE with FileBrowser

TINYMCE_FILEBROWSER = True
X_FRAME_OPTIONS = 'SAMEORIGIN'
FILEBROWSER_DIRECTORY = ''
DIRECTORY = ''

# Timezone Stuff

When you need to use timezone aware datetime objects in the python code

import datetime
import pytz

#time aware datetime
d_time = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('Africa/Johannesburg'))
print(d_time)

Output

datetime.datetime(2021, 8, 24, 22, 39, 59, 974842, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Africa/Johannesburg' SAST+2:00:00 STD>)

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