django-likeit

A simple app for Django that enables users to like and unlike any object/item within any model. It's developed on Python 3.5 & Python 3.6 for Django 1.10 and later.

Installation

• Install django-likeit in your vilrtual env:

pip install django-likeit

• Add the app to your settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
  ...
  "like",
  ...
]

• Add likeit urls to your project's urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls import url, include

urlpatterns = [
  ...
  url(r'^like/', include('like.urls')),
  ...
]

• Migrations:

python manage.py makemigrations like
python manage.py migrate

• Make sure you have jQuery ajax CSRF configuration right, and also you included Font Awesome in your HTML.

Usage:

Template tags:

• Get the liked objects for a given user:

{% with user_likes <user> "app_label.model" as like_list %}
    {% for like_obj in like_list %}
        {# do something with like_obj #}
    {% endfor %}
{% endwith %}

• Given an object obj you may show it like count like this:

<p>Like Count {{ obj|likes_count }}</p>

• Get Like instance for an object (obj) and a user (user)

{% with obj|get_like_for:user as like_object %}
    ...
{% endwith %}

• Like Button for an object my_obj:

{% like_button my_obj %}

Likes Manager

• Create a Like instance for a user and object:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from music.models import Song
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> song = Song.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> like = Like.objects.create(user, song)

or:

>>> like = Like.objects.create(user, 1, Song)

or:

>>> like = Like.objects.create(user, 1, "music.Song")

• Get the objects liked by a given user:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> Like.objects.for_user(user)
>>> [<Like: Like object 1>, <Like: Like object 2>, <Like: Like object 3>]

• Now, get user liked objects belonging to a given model:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from music.models import Song
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> Like.objects.for_user(user, model=Song)
>>> [<Like: Like object 1>, <Like: Like object 2>, <Like: Like object 3>]

• Get the liked object instances of a given model liked by any user:

>>> from music.models import Song
>>> Like.objects.for_model(Song)
>>> [<Like: Like object 1>, <Like: Like object 2>, <Like: Like object 3>]

• Get a Like instance for a given object and user:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from music.models import Song
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='jdoe')
>>> song = Song.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> like = Like.objects.get_like(user, song)

• Get all Like instances for a given object

>>> from music.models import Song
>>> song = Song.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> like = Like.objects.for_object(song)