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How to Use EmbeddedModelField in Django's admin

by Ismail Elshareef

Problem

If you're using MongoDB with Django, you will need to manage ListField and EmbeddedModelField type fields in Django's admin module. Unfortunately, that's not so easy to do out of the box. You need to do some hacking to get it done. Here's a good link on how to use ListField in admin https://gist.github.com/1200165.

Now let's find out how we can use EmbeddedModelField with admin. Let's start hacking :)

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

you have a local git repo
with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
- your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
- your webpages are executed by apache
apache's home directory is /var/www/

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

	<?php

	namespace Ormigo\Bundle\OrmigoBundle\Form\Model;

	use DateTime;

	class DateRange
	{
	/**
	* @var DateTime

	<?php

	namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Security;

	use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\SimpleFormAuthenticatorInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\TokenInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\AuthenticationException;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseEvent;
	use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\UsernamePasswordToken;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

	Thanks to:
	http://realityloop.com/blog/2012/07/03/nginx-mariadb-php-aegir-mac-os-x-optional-drush-5-works-mountain-lion
	and
	http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion

	--Fresh install Mountain Lion.
	--Install XCode 4.4.2
	--Install Command line utilities via Xcode

	--Install Homebrew

	jQuery(function($) {
	$('form[data-async]').live('submit', function(event) {
	var $form = $(this);
	var $target = $($form.attr('data-target'));

	$.ajax({
	type: $form.attr('method'),
	url: $form.attr('action'),
	data: $form.serialize(),

	var Crypto = {};

	Crypto.sha1_hmac = function (msg, key) {
	"use strict";
	var oKeyPad, iKeyPad, iPadRes, bytes, i, len;
	if (key.length > 64) {
	// keys longer than blocksize are shortened
	key = Crypto.sha1(key, true);
	}

	// snippet taken from http://catapulty.tumblr.com/post/8303749793/heroku-and-node-js-how-to-get-the-client-ip-address
	function getClientIp(req) {
	var ipAddress;
	// The request may be forwarded from local web server.
	var forwardedIpsStr = req.header('x-forwarded-for');
	if (forwardedIpsStr) {
	// 'x-forwarded-for' header may return multiple IP addresses in
	// the format: "client IP, proxy 1 IP, proxy 2 IP" so take the
	// the first one
	var forwardedIps = forwardedIpsStr.split(',');