Using django-threadedcomments in Pinax

While it’s perfectly feasible to use the standard threadedcomments templatetags and views, if you’re using django-threadedcomments from within Pinax, it’s even easier. We’ve built a small abstraction on top of threadedcomments to build a standard comment form that integrates with the existing CSS and template layout.

To use this abstraction layer, in your templates, first make sure to load our abstraction layer:

{% load comments_tag %}

Then determine the object on which you would like to comment. In our example, it will be a context variable called post. Now, just include this tag:

{% comments post %}

And that’s it! Behind the scenes, the threadedcomments/comments.html template is being loaded and rendered with the following context variables:

object:

The object on which to comment.

request:

Django’s standard request object.

user:

The currently logged-in user’s User instance.