tgapp-tgcomments 0.0.5

About tgcomments

tgcomments is a Pluggable Comments application for TurboGears2. Comments can be added to any webpage by using the comments_for partial.

TGComments supports Facebook for avatar if the user logged using tgapp-fbauth or if the User model provides a similar interface. Otherwise will fallback to Gravatar.

Installing

tgcomments can be installed both from pypi or from bitbucket:

easy_install tgcomments

should just work for most of the users

Plugging tgcomments

In your application config/app_cfg.py import plug:

from tgext.pluggable import plug

Then at the end of the file call plug with tgcomments:

plug(base_config, 'tgcomments')

You will be able to access the registration process at http://localhost:8080/tgcomments.

Exposed Partials

tgcomments exposes a bunch of partials which can be used to render pieces of the blogging system anywhere in your application:

• tgcomments.partials:comments_for(entity)

  Given any SQLAlchemy entity which is available inside your application model module it will display a list of comments for that entity with a box to add a new comment.

Provided Options

tgcomments supports a bunch of options that can be passed to the plug call to change its behavior:

• notify_facebook (default:True) automatically notify on facebook comments that

  the user wrote if he has logged using Facebook

• allow_anonymous (default:True) allow anonymous users to comment

Exposed Templates

The templates used by registration and that can be replaced with tgext.pluggable.replace_template are:

• tgcomments.templates.comments_partial