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I have a web application that I would like to allow white labeling for our clients. I have done this in PHP/ZendFramework, keying off the hostname (http://example.com), pulling the logo/colors/other from the database and rendering the main layout with those settings.
I am new to Python/Django1.5 and was wondering if anyone has implemented a white label feature into their application. How did you do it? Is there a common practice?
I have done some Googling and found an older blog implementing a white label feature using a url prefix, but I'm still running into some problems with rending the layouts
http://chase-seibert.github.com/blog/2011/08/05/django-white-label-styling-with-url-prefixes.html
Any help would be great! Thanks
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A white label website itself is a website built by a third-party for another web designer or company and then supplies the same white label websites to their client. The white label designer then adds the middle company's branding assets to the website he designed, attaching all creation credit to the middle company.
A white label mobile app is a “native” mobile application that runs directly on the Apple iOS or Google Android operating systems that is built by a third party but offered under your own brand. It's available in the Apple App or Google Play Stores for people to download directly.
What is a White Label Architect? White labelling is a common practice in the business world that refers to rebranding another company's service or product under your own name to sell to your customers. Essentially, our drawings in your name.
I did not find a good answer on this so i just implemented my own solution.
What I did was create a Whitelabel model that looked like this:
class Whitelabel(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=False)
logo = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True)
primary_domain = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=False)
Then I created a context processor in application_name/context_processors.py that checks the current host domain and sees if it matches any records primary_domain field. If there is a match, return the values for name and logo and assign them to the parameters SITE_NAME and SITE_LOGO. If no match is found, assign defualt values for SITE_NAME and SITE_LOGO, probably your default application name.
def whitelabel_processor(request):
current_domain = request.get_host()
whitelabel = Whitelabel.objects.filter(primary_domain=current_domain).order_by('id')
if whitelabel.count() != 0:
config = {
'SITE_NAME': whitelabel[0].name,
'SITE_LOGO': whitelabel[0].logo,
'SITE_DOMAIN': whitelabel[0].primary_domain
}
else:
config = {
'SITE_NAME': 'MY SITE',
'SITE_LOGO': '/static/images/logo.png',
'SITE_DOMAIN': 'http://%s' % Site.objects.get_current().domain
}
return config
Then I added the context processor to my settings file under TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
"django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
...
"context_processors.whitelabel_processor",
)
So that I can call them like so in my base.html template
<body>
<h1>{{SITE_NAME}}</h1>
<img src="{{SITE_LOGO}}" />
</body>
Here is some more documentation around template context processors. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#writing-your-own-context-processors
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