conversion from django 1.4 to 1.5 errors - django

Question

i an doing exactly the same Django admin datepicker calendar and clock img
and i am suffering with the same problem but it was working perfectly fine with django 1.4 but when i updated it to django 1.5 it is giving me this error
'adminmedia' is not a valid tag library: Template library adminmedia not found, tried django.templatetags.adminmedia,django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.adminmedia,django.contrib.admin.templatetags.adminmedia,django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.adminmedia,jobpost.templatetags.adminmedia,crispy_forms.templatetags.adminmedia,tinymce.templatetags.adminmedia,haystack.templatetags.adminmedia
here is my code:
{% load adminmedia %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% block content %}
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/my_admin/jsi18n/"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/admin/js/core.js"></script>
{{ form.media }}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/forms.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/base.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/global.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/widgets.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/admin/jsi18n/"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/jquery.init.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/actions.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/calendar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/admin/js/admin/DateTimeShortcuts.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.__admin_media_prefix__ = "{% filter escapejs %}{% admin_media_prefix %}{% endfilter %}";
</script>
<script type = “text/javascript” src=”../jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js”></script>
<script>
by doing this i am showing image of calender widget from /static/admin/img/icon_calender.jpg.
but admin media option is deprecated in django version 1.5 or later so then i replace this with static media option and here is the new code:
{% load staticfiles %}
{% load i18n %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% block content %}
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/my_admin/jsi18n/"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/admin/js/core.js"></script>
{{ form.media }}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/forms.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/base.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/global.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/admin/css/widgets.css"/>
<link href="{% static 'admin/css/login.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
and it look like this:
my calender icon is gone. can anyone tell me whats the alternative of this problem in version 1.5
help will be appreciated

Answer 1

The response is right here, in the 1.5 release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.5-beta-1/#miscellaneous
The {% admin_media_prefix %} became deprecated, you must remove it from your templates. (Included every {% load adminmedia %}, which causes the exception). There must be a setting which replace this tag I guess.

Answer 2

so django 1.5 was giving me nightmare so i resolved my problem by using direct jquery datpicker here is the jquery datepicker
all i had to do is change the id which is a little bit tricky in django .for example if your date field name is start_date then id will be formtools_start_date . and for this kind of datepicker you don't even need any icon to show.. this helped me i hope this will help those also whoever upgraded their django version.

Answer 3

I just had this problem today - not being able to load admin base.css. I upgraded Django for my site from v1.2 to v1.5 and encountered the issue. I found that the href is /static/admin/css/base.css and could not find out how to change it. So I did these:
Copied site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/* to my Django project's static directory so it would be like
top/
static/
admin/
css/
js
images
Editted urls.py, added the following line in the urlpatterns = patterns('',...
(r'^static/(?P.*)$','django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes':True}),
That's it. It worked.