blog

{% load i18n %}

{% block title %}{% trans "Maarten's blog" %}{% endblock title %}

{% block description %}{% blocktrans %}The always coherently put together, yet

fuzzy blog of whatever sprouts in my mind.{% endblocktrans %}

{% endblock description %}

{% block main %}

{% with color="brown" accent_color="yellow" %}

<div class="section {{ color }} z-depth-3">

    <div class="container">

        <div class="white-text">

            <h3>{% trans "Blog" %}</h3>

            <p>

                {% blocktrans %}Welcome to my blog. Here, I write

                about things that interest me. Politics, coding,

                studying, life, or anything else I fancy rambling

                about. If you're in luck, I may've written it in a

                language that you understand better than English.

                {% endblocktrans %}

            </p>

        </div>

    </div>

</div>

<div class="container">

    {% for title, date, description, link in post_links %}

        <h2 class="{{ color}}-text">{{ title }}</h2>

        {# FIXME: Date is in all languages of the same format. Fix for each language #}

        <span class="grey-text">{{ date|date:"l j F Y" }}</span>

        {#<p class="hide-on-small-only">{{ description }}</p>#}

            {% trans "Read on"%}

        </a>

        <hr />

    {% endfor %}

</div>

{% endwith %}

{% endblock main %}

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render # This allows to render the template with the view here. It's pretty cool and important.

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponse

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse # Why?

from django.template import loader # This allows to actually load the template.

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login

from .models import Post

from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist

from markdown import markdown

from django.utils import translation

# FIXME: Remove this template trash. THIS IS A VIEW, NOT A FUCKING TEMPLATE FFS

context = {

    'materialDesign_color': "green",

    'materialDesign_accentColor': "purple",

    'navbar_title': "Blog",

    'navbar_fixed': True,

    'navbar_backArrow': True,

    #'footer_title': "Maarten's blog",

    #'footer_description': "My personal scribbly notepad.",

    #'footer_links': footer_links,

    }

def get_available_post_languages(post):

    """ Returns the language codes for which a blog post exists. This function

    always returns English (because that field mustn't be empty).

    So say a blog post has an English, Dutch and French version (which means

    english_file, french_file and dutch_file aren't empty), the function will return {"en",

    "fr", "nl"}. """

    available_languages = {"en"}

    if post.german_file is not none:

        available_languages.add("de")

    if post.spanish_file is not None:

        available_languages.add("es")

    if post.french_file is not None:

        available_languages.add("fr")

    if post.dutch_file is not None:

        available_languages.add("nl")

    return available_languages

def get_preferred_post_language(post, language):

    """ Returns the post language file that best suits the given language. This

    is handy if you know what language the user prefers, but aren't sure whether

    you can provide that language. This function will try to provide the file

    for that language, or return English if that's not possible. """

    if language == "de" and post.german_file is not None:

        return post.german_file

    if language == "es" and post.spanish_file is not None:

        return post.spanish_file

    if language == "fr" and post.french_file is not None:

        return post.french_file

    if language == "nl" and post.dutch_file is not None:

        return post.dutch_file

    return post.english_file  # Returned if all other choices wouldn't be satisfactory, or the requested language is English.

def index(request):

    template = "blog/index.html"

    posts = Post.objects.all()

    language = translation.get_language()

    post_links = []

    for post in posts:

        blog_file = get_preferred_post_language(post, language)

        # TODO: Find a cleaner way to determine the title. First and foremost:

        # If the language differs from English, the other language file needs to

        # be loaded. Plus: look for a built in function to remove the full path

        # and only return the file name.

        title = (blog_file.name.rpartition("/")[2]).rpartition(".")[0]

        date = post.published

        description = "Lorem ipsum"

        # a cleaner way to do it. Investigate.

        link = reverse("blog-post", args=[str(post)])

        post_links.append([title, date, description, link])

    context = {

            'post_links': post_links,

            }

    return render(request, template, context)

def post(request, title):

    template = "blog/post.html"

    posts = Post.objects.get(english_file=title)

    language = translation.get_language()

    blog_file = get_preferred_post_language(post, language)

    blog_text = markdown(blog_file)

    context = {

        'article': blog_text,

        'title': blog_file.name,

        }

    return render(request, template, context)