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AJAX form in Django with jQuery.form plugin

Here I will describe an example form using jQuery Form  plugin. It will provide a good frontend, while Django serving a simple backend. I made this AJAX form using unobtrusive javascript. With human language it means the form will function with JavaScript disabled. And so jQuery.form plugin will work as an AJAX speedup addition and not as a major requirement. Features: * Works both with JavaScript  and without. * Uses standard Django ideology/hooks. * Uses the most known jQuery plugin for forms AJAX handling. Theory: Main idea that Django supports both normal and AJAX request in a standard view. And has a handy request.is_ajax() request method. It returns True/False depending on if request search has HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH header for the string 'XMLHttpRequest' . jQuery.form plugin sure does have that. Backend Django. We will create an app called 'contact' for our task and place it in the example django project. Urls from the project will redirect to ...

Meteor: Run/Bind JavaScript after rendering a template elements

Being studying Meteor myself I'd like to help beginners like me. I have searched for certain decisions that became wired to me after python development. So I'll just leave them here for your consideration. Imagine a situation when you need to bind your plugins to a newly rendered template. If you are diving into asynchronous JS dev, like I did and have developed AJAX websites... You will, one word, be quite confused because main concepts are different from the one's you used to know. Anyhow I'd try to explain on this simple task. Assume we have a template: < template name = "site-part" > < p > {{my-text}} </ p > </ template > And I render it's content like so: Template . site - part . content = function ( ) { return Session . get ( " my_data " ) ; } So I have this template piece rendered when "my_data" variable appears in session. And I have events binded to newly rendered webpage:...

Django: Creating multi upload form without using Flash

Hi there! Today I want to tell you about my experience of adding Multiple files upload form to my  Django project Photoblog.  I searched google for lots of plugins, but found only Flash usage examples. I dislike Flash technology, as for my personal usage, and want to build some more quickly working UI. Personally I have flash blocker installed on my browser. So that's main ideas pf my jQuery plugin selection. I found IMHO the best for my case plugin by  Sebastian Tschan . It had only one problem - No available Django examples. Let's try to fill the gap here... So my experience on befriending  Sebastian Tschan's jQuery File Upload Plugin  with Django is the topic of this article. Let's finally get started. :) Sebastian has built an important plugin IMHO. I want to thank him for his noble work of helping people with their tasks. It uses only jQuery UI and no flash, making it work more programmers way... So enough with the lyrics. Let's try to adapt his example...