BUILD up your first BLOG site using Django tool
STEP 1:
Install Python 2.7 or above and django
STEP 2:
write this command to create your project with default settings and server – python ‘django location’ startproject project_name
python /home/embkm/Django-1.6.5/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject testsite
now you will find a new folder named ‘testsite’ in your pwd
STEP 3:
MOVE to testsite folder – cd testsite/
then open settings.py -vim settings.py
& update data as:
DATABASES = {
‘default’: {
‘ENGINE’: ‘django.db.backends.sqlite3′,
‘NAME’: ‘site.db’, //write any name :it is your database file which will automatically be formed in your project folder
}
}
STEP 4:
check 'django.contrib.admin', is added in installed_apps
if not then add it or uncomment it if commented
it enable admin functionality in our project
in urls.py uncomment lines :
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urs)),
STEP 5:
first come to project directory - cd ..
this command tells django to translate app files into real database & create necessary tables :
python manage.py syncdb
after this step you will be asked to create a admin ,give user name,password,email id ,
STEP 6:
now we will start the server :
python manage.py runserver
open browser and open
& then
now login with your admin id & password
STEP 7:
Now stop server using ctrl+c
lets start making our blog :
in project directory type:
python manage.py startapp blog
which create blog directory which basic application functionalities
STEP 8:
Now go to blog : cd blog/
vim models.py
& add create your model :
from django.db import models
from taggit.managers import TaggableManager //used to add tags in our project
class Post(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100);
body = models.TextField()
created = models.DateTimeField() //date of creation
tags = TaggableManager()
def __unicode__(self):
return self.title
install tags using pip installl django-taggit in command window
STEP 9:
create admin.py in blog and write:
from django.contrib import admin
from blog.models import Post
admin.site.register(Post)
STEP 10:
add blog in your project setting
open testsite
vim setting.py
in INSTALLED_APPS
add 'taggit' & 'blog'
in project folder run:
python manage syncdb
python manage runserver
now open http://127.0.0.1/blog
you will find posts & tag in it
goto posts & now you can add posts to your site
STEP 10:
Now we will make our website visible
vim urls.py in testsite
& edit it as :
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'testsite.views.home', name='home'),
url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
STEP 11 :
In blog folder create a file urls.py
vim urls.py
& edit it with :
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.views.generic import ListView,DetailView
from blog.models import Post
from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed
class BlogFeed(Feed):
title='mysite'
description='some info of mine'
link='/blog/feed/'
def items(self):
return Post.objects.all().order_by("-created")[-2]
def item_title(self,item):
return item.title
def item_description(self,item):
return item.body
def item_link(self,item):
return u"/blog/%d" % item.id
urlpatterns = patterns('blog.views',
url(r'^$',ListView.as_view(queryset=Post.objects.all().order_by("-created")[:2],
template_name="blog.html")),
url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)$',DetailView.as_view(
model=Post,
template_name="post.html")),
url(r'^archives/$',ListView.as_view(queryset=Post.objects.all().order_by("-created"),
template_name="archives.html")),
url(r'^tag/(?P<tag>\w+)$','tagpage'),
url(r'^feed/$',BlogFeed()),
)
STEP 12:
Create a folder 'templates' in blog
make four files in it:blog.html (index page),base.html,archives.html,tagpage.html,post.html
and write following code in them :
blog.html :
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
{% for post in object_list %}
<h2><a href="/blog/{{post.id}}">{{ post.title }}</a></h2>
<div class='post_meta'>
on {{post.created}}
</div>
<div class='post_body'>
{{post.body|safe|linebreaks}}
</div>
<div class ='tags'>
{% for tag in post.tags.all %}
<a href="/blog/tag/{{tag}}">{{tag}}</a>
{% if not forloop.last %},
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
base.html:
<h1>My site yoyo </h1>
{% block content %}
{% endblock %}
post.html:
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
<h2>{{ post.title }}</h2>
<div class='post_meta'>
on {{post.created}}
</div>
<div class='post_body'>
{{post.body|safe|linebreaks}}
</div>
<div class ='tags'>
{% for tag in post.tags.all %}
<a href="/blog/tag/{{tag}}">{{tag}}</a>
{% if not forloop.last %},
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% endblock %}
tagpage.html:
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
<h2>Posts tagged: {{tag}}</h2>
{% for post in posts %}
<p>{{post.created|date:"Y-m-d"}}:<a href="/blog/{{post.id}}">{{ post.title }}</a></p>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
archives.html:
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
{% for post in object_list %}
<p>{{post.created|date:"Y-m-d"}}:<a href="/blog/{{post.id}}">{{ post.title }}</a></p>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
STEP 13:
Now we are ready to run our blog .
Start server
python manage.py runserver
go to browser & open
& now enjoy your first blog using python
