03 May 09 Django-Elsewhere

I just got finished integrating Leah Culver’s django-elsewhere application. Django-elsewhere was formerly Django-PSN (Portable Social Networks) and was originally created for the now defunct social networking site Pownce. This nifty application allows your users to add an arbitrary number of social networks, websites, and instant messengers to their profile. The application even comes with many icons for widely known sites.

In my previous design I had just stuck a few fields in my user profile for websites and a few of the common instant messengers. This was limiting, and  I had been thinking about expanding it to a more general solution when I stumbled across this application.

To integrate it with my site, I created a template tag to display a user’s “elsewhere” sites, and I made a view and template to allow a user to edit their sites. This code was based off the example view and template that came with the application. In general the django-elsewhere code quality is quite high. There are still a few print statements in the code base, but that’s all I can find fault with right now.

Thank you django-elsewhere team for the big time saver!

Tags: django, django-elsewhere, sg101