adding comments to flask-flatpages #flask #flask-flatpages #comments

_ReadMe.md

This is a simple comment system for flask-flatpages, appends a datetime stamp and your comment in the static file.

#todo: cleanup, redirect to same template and clean the template up

forms.py

class WritePageForm(Form):
    """write content to todays journal file"""
    path = TextField('path')
    title = TextField('title')
    content = TextAreaField('content',
    validators=[DataRequired(),
    Length(min=3, max=1000),
    ])

page.html

{% extends "layout.html" %}


{% block content %}
<br><br>
    <div class="panel panel-default">
      <div class="panel-heading">
        <h3 class="panel-title">Tags</h3>
      </div>
      <div class="panel-body">
          {%for t in page.meta.tags%}
          <a href="/flatpages/tag/{{t}}">
              {{t}}

          </a>
          {%endfor%}

      </div>
    </div>

    <p>
    {{ page.html | safe }}

    </p>
    <div class="panel panel-default">
      <div class="panel-body">
        <h4>Comment</h4>
    <form id="WritePageForm" class="form" method="POST" action="{{ url_for('flat.writePage') }}" role="form" >
            <input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}"/>
            <div class="form-group">
              {{form.content(placeholder="enter comment", class_="form-control", rows='5')}}

            </div>
            page info
            <div class="form-group">
                {{form.title(value=page.title, class_="form-control", readonly=true)}}
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                {{form.path(value=page.path, class_="form-control", readonly=true)}}
            </div>

            <p><input class="btn btn-default btn-submit" type="submit" value="add"></p>
    </form>
  </div>
</div>

    <br>


    <hr>

{% endblock content %}

views.py

@blueprint.route('/append/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
@login_required
def writePage():
    form = WritePageForm(request.form, csrf_enabled=False)
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    ymd = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        page = pages.get(form.path.data)
        ptext = form.content.data.encode('utf-8',errors='ignore') # bugfix for decode errors
        ptext = ptext.decode('utf-8',errors='ignore') 
        path = form.path.data
        print(ptext,path)
        write_page(path,ptext)
        FlatPages.reload(pages)
        print(type(page.meta['title']))
        flash("comment "+form.content.data+" added to "+str(page.meta['title']))
        return render_template('flatpages/writepage.html', form=form, ymd=ymd, page=page)
    else:
        page = 'fail'
        flash_errors(form)
        return render_template('flatpages/writepage.html', form=form, ymd=ymd, page=page)

writepage.html

{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% block title %}
{{form.title.data}}
{% endblock %}
{% block name %}
{{form.title.data}}
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}

<!-- Start your project here-->




<h4>Comment</h4>

<p><a href="/flatpages/{{page.path}}">{{page.path}}</a></p>
<h4>output</h4>
<pre class="line-numbers language-powershell">
    <code class="line-numbers language-markdown">
    comment: {{form.content.data}}

    title: {{form.title.data}}
    path: {{form.path.data}}
    </code>
</pre>

<!-- /Start your project here-->


{% endblock %}