Installation¶

Mandatory dependencies¶

PyBBM requires the following packages:

django
django-annoying
unidecode (for slugifying instances for nicer urls)

By installing PyBBM with pip or easy_install, all the above dependencies will be installed automatically:

pip install pybbm

Optional dependencies¶

The following dependencies are optional. You can install them with pip install:

For better perfomance and easy images thumbnailing you can use any thumbnail django application. PyBBM by default uses sorl.thumbnail if it is installed and included in your INSTALLED_APPS setting. It is used for defining the avatar field in the PybbProfile model and for resizing the avatar in the pybb/avatar.html template. If you decide to install sorl.thumbnail with django 1.7 you have to install at least 11.12.1b version with:
```
pip install "sorl-thumbnail>=11.12.1b"
```
PIL (Python Imaging Library) or its more up-to-date fork Pillow is optional if you configure sorl.thumbnail to use different backend or don’t use sorl.thumbnail in general, but remember that using an ImageField in forms requires the Python Imaging Library to be installed (i.e. you should install it if you use the built-in profile).
PyBBM emulates the behavior and functionality of django-pure-pagination, but we recommend to install it in your project.
Choose from bbcode and markdown libraries if you use one of the attached to pybbm markup engines. For more information see Markup

Fresh project¶

If you start a new project based on pybbm, checkout pybbm.org website codebase from https://github.com/hovel/pybbm_org and skip the next steps.

Enable applications and edit settings¶

Add the following apps to your INSTALLED_APPS to enable pybbm and required applications:
- pybb
```
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ....
    'pybb',
    ...
)
```

Add pybb.context_processors.processor to your settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    ...
    'pybb.context_processors.processor',
    ...
    )

Add pybb.middleware.PybbMiddleware to your settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'pybb.middleware.PybbMiddleware',
    ...
)

Enable PyBBM urlconf¶

Put include('pybb.urls', namespace='pybb')) into main project urls.py file:

urlpatterns = [
    ....
    (r'^forum/', include('pybb.urls', namespace='pybb')),
    ....
]

Enable your site profile¶

Setup forum’s profile model and PYBB_PROFILE_RELATED_NAME setting.

If you have no site profile, dafault settings will satisfy your needs.

If you have a custom user model, which stores all profile fields itself, or if you have custom site profile model, then check that it inherits from pybb.profiles.PybbProfile or contains all fields and properties from this class.

Then set PYBB_PROFILE_RELATED_NAME to None for custom user model, or to related_name from OneToOne field related to User from custom site profile model.

For more information see how to use custom user model with pybbm

Migrate database¶

Since django 1.7 release you have several combinations of installed packages that affect database migrations:

django >= 1.7 Django since 1.7 version has it’s own migration engine. Pybbm fully supports django 1.7 migrations, so just run:
```
python manage.py migrate pybb
```
We recommend to use database engine that supports transaction management (all django backends except sqlite). Otherwise you have small chance to face some inconsistency in DB after failed post/topic creation.

Templates¶

Check that:

Your templates directory contains the “base.html” template. Otherwise, set a custom base template with PYBB_TEMPLATE.
Basic template contains at least a content block.