Django Categories 1.6 documentation

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Models

CategoryBase

class CategoryBase
parent

TreeForeignKey (self)

The category’s parent category. Leave this blank for an root category.

name

Required CharField(100)

The name of the category.

slug

Required SlugField

URL-friendly title. It is automatically generated from the title.

active

Required BooleanField default: True

Is this item active. If it is inactive, all children are set to inactive as well.

objects

CategoryManager

An object manager that adds an active method for only selecting items whose active attribute is True.

tree

TreeManager

A Django-MPTT TreeManager instance.

Category

class Category

Category is a subclass of CategoryBase and includes all its attributes.

thumbnail

FileField

An optional thumbnail, that is uploaded to REGISTER_ADMIN via THUMBNAIL_STORAGE.

Note

Why isn’t this an ImageField?

For ImageFields, Django checks the file system for the existance of the files to handle the height and width. In many cases this can lead to problems and impact performance.

For these reasons, a FileField that manually manages the width and height was chosen.

thumbnail_width

IntegerField

The thumbnail width. Automatically set on save if a thumbnail is uploaded.

thumbnail_height

IntegerField

The thumbnail height. Automatically set on save if a thumbnail is uploaded.

order

Required IntegerField default: 0

A manually-managed order of this category in the listing. Items with the same order are sorted alphabetically.

alternate_title

CharField(100)

An alternative title to use on pages with this category.

alternate_url

CharField(200)

An alternative URL to use instead of the one derived from the category hierarchy.

Note

Why isn’t this a URLField?

For URLFields, Django checks that the URL includes http:// and the site name. This makes it impossible to use relative URLs in that field.

description

TextField

An optional longer description of the category. Very useful on category landing pages.

meta_keywords

CharField(255)

Comma-separated keywords for search engines.

meta_extra

TextField

(Advanced) Any additional HTML to be placed verbatim in the <head> of the page.