Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Frameworks solve problems that come up repeatedly.
- Code organization philosophy
- Database access
- Session management
- Templating
- Encourage code reuse
- Authentication
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How's Django different from Python?
Python = independent programming language
Django = Python framework
Model-View-Template
urls.py
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
urlpatterns = patterns('core.views',
url(r'^$', 'landing', name='landing_page'),
url(r'^benefits/$', 'benefits', name='benefits'),
url(r'^faq/$', 'faq', name='faq'),
url(r'^contact/$', 'contact', name='contact'),
url(r'^thanks/$', 'thanks'),
url(r'^sign-up/', 'signUp', name="sign_up"),
)
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
from models import Faq
def faq(req):
faq = Faq.objects.all()
p = {'is_faq': True, 'faq': faq}
if req.user.is_authenticated():
p['is_signed_in'] = True
return render_to_response('faq.html', p,
context_instance=RequestContext(req))
models.py
from django.db import models
class Faq(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
slug = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
question = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
answer = models.TextField(blank=True)
Template
<html>
<head>
<title>Django app</title>
</head>
<body>
{% for f in faq %}
{{ f.question }}
<p>{{ f.answer }}</p>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>