django-threadedcomments is a simple yet flexible threaded commenting system for Django.

Where is the Code?

The code is now being hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/HonzaKral/django-threadedcomments

Updates

• March 31, 2009: Released version 0.5 of the application and moved. This is the last of this line--the next release will be a large rewrite to use the comment extension hooks provided in Django 1.1 and will be backwards incompatible.

• March 7, 2008 : Created a discussion group for talk about the application.

• March 7, 2008 : Added gravatar support, internationalization support on the comment models, and fixed a bug with get_threaded_comment_form.

• February 24, 2008: Integrated with django-comment-utils completely, foregoing the previously-similar implementation. Also, there are now template tags for getting useful unbound forms.

• February 9, 2008: Mostly a bugfix release, but also updated the error handling methodology so that it no longer inserts it into the session.

• February 4, 2008: Edit, delete, and comment previewing abilities added. Also max_depth moderation parameter introduced. For a fuller list of changes, see CHANGELOG.txt

• January 24, 2008: Small update (0.1.1) which adds template tags for getting comment counts.

Documentation

• Tutorial 1 - Creating a Threaded Comment System for a Blog (Example of Completed Tutorial)

• Complete API Reference

• Browse The Source Code

Samples

• Simple Example (From Tutorial)

Features

• Flexibility: Uses standard newforms forms, templatetags, etc. Integrate into your existing site.
• Simplicity: Should take less than 30 minutes to set up a new installation.
• Compatibility: Can make use of Managers already provided by django-comment-utils.
• Ease of Upgrade: Provides an automatic migration utility for upgrading from django.contrib.comments.

Dependencies

• django-comment-utils, only if moderation is required.

Installation

There are two methods of installing django-threadedcomments:

Method 1

Download the latest release version from http://django-threadedcomments.googlecode.com/files/threadedcomments-0.4.zip and unzip it. You'll find a script named setup.py inside. To install the package, simply execute the following command:

sudo python setup.py install

Method 2

Grab a copy of the latest subversion revision. To do so, first check out the repository somewhere by issuing the following command:

svn checkout http://django-threadedcomments.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django_threadedcomments 

Now issue the following command (replacing SITE-PACKAGES-DIR with your system's site-packages directory):

ln -s `pwd`/django_threadedcomments/threadedcomments SITE-PACKAGES-DIR/threadedcomments

If you're not sure where your site-packages directory is, you can probably get away with doing this:

ln -s `pwd`/django_threadedcomments/threadedcomments `python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"`/threadedcomments

Verify That it has Worked

To verify that your installation has been successful, open a terminal and try to import it:

>>> import threadedcomments

If your result looks like this, then you've missed something and should try again:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named threadedcomments