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Manage.py

Manage.py

$ manage.py <command> [options]

Syncdb

$ python manage.py syncdb Creating tables ...
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group_permissions
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user_groups
Creating table auth_user_user_permissions
Creating table auth_user
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site

Runserver

$ python manage.py runserver

Validating models...

0 errors found
November 09, 2013 - 13:29:07
Django version 1.5.5, using settings 'sdcc.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

startapp

$ python manage.py startapp campspeakers

├── campspeakers
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── models.py
│   ├── tests.py
│   └── views.py
├── manage.py
└── sdcc
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── settings.py
    ├── urls.py
    ├── wsgi.py

MVT?

Model-View-Template

Weird nameing convention, but follows M-V-C design pattern.

Models

models

from django.db import models

class Speaker(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    slug = models.SlugField(unique=True)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['last_name']

    def _get_full_name(self):
        return '%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name)

    full_name = property(_get_full_name)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.full_name

Django Admin

django Admin

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'sdcc.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^sdcc/', include('sdcc.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

django Admin

from django.contrib import adminfrom .models import Speaker admin.site.register(Speaker)

django admin

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
)    

Views

Views

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import Http404
from django import template

from .models import Speaker

def index(request):
    try:
        speaker_list = Speaker.objects.all()
    except Speaker.DoesNotExist:
        raise Http404
    return render(request, 'campspeakers/speaker_list.html',
        {'speaker_list': speaker_list})    

views

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class IndexView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "campspeakers/index.html"

Views

from django.views.generic import ListView

from .models import Speaker

class BookListView(ListView):
    model = Speaker

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        # Call the base implementation first to get a context
        context = super(BookListView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        # Add in a QuerySet of all the books
        context['speaker_list'] = Speaker.objects.all()
        return context    

Routes

routes

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'sdcc.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^sdcc/', include('sdcc.foo.urls')),
    url(r'^speakers/', include('campspeakers.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Routes

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url

from .views import BookListView

import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^list$', BookListView.as_view()),
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
)    

Templates

templates

{% block content %}{% endblock %}

{{ speaker }}

Tips & Tricks

South

"This is South, intelligent schema and data migrations for ​Django projects"

Replaces syncdb.

 $ python manage.py schemamigration campspeakers --initial

 $ python manage.py migrate campspeakers

directory variables

import os

PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, '../../'))

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Resources

Resources

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