Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

Settings it up:
sudo apt-get install django

Check out the options of the command django-admin

Start s project
hemanth@ubuntu:~/django$ django-admin startproject mysite
hemanth@ubuntu:~/django$ cd mysite
hemanth@ubuntu:~/django$ ls
__init__.py manage.py settings.py urls.py
This is the basis of the application

manage.py => application we use to RUN certain commands.

setting.py => The default settings file called, settings.py

urls.py => It allows us to describe via a regex where to direct http requests.

Startapp

hemanth@ubuntu:~/django/mystie$ ./manage.py startapp myblog
hemanth@ubuntu:~/django/mystie$ cd myblog ; ls
__init__.py models.py tests.py views.py


__init__.py => runs when the app is loaded.

models.py => This is where we describe our database structure.

views.py => This is how we describe how our data is shown to the user.

Unlock admin panel

In urls.py [ uncommenting ]:
# from django.contrib import admin
# admin.autodiscover()
(remove the #)
and also from the #(r'^admin/',include(admin.site.urls)),



In settings.py [ INSTALLED_APPS should have 'django.contrib.admin'] :
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.admin',
)


SyncDB [ Create's if not present ]:

P.S : The settings.py must have DB detials, for the easy of it let it be sqllite3
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'

hemanth@ubuntu:~/django/mysite$ ./manage.py syncdb


Start Server

hemanth@ubuntu:~/mystie$ ./manage.py runserver
Validating models...
0 errors found
Django version 1.2 alpha 1 SVN-12205, using settings 'mystie.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

Got to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

P.S : For people in <3 with Drupal have look at pinax