I'm developing a simple website in Django. The main function of the WebApp is to store user information like:
Country of the User
City of the User
Region (of the Country) of the User
Sub-region (of the Country) of the User
District (of the Country) of the User
In my search for solutions I've found one. To use the http://www.geonames.org/ database.
In relation to Django specifically I've found a two Django Apps:
https://github.com/coderholic/django-cities
https://github.com/yourlabs/django-cities-light
I'm currently testing django-cities and I've lost two days trying to import the data. The App is unmaintained and modifications must to be done so the App runs on Django 4 and until now I've not been successful to make it work.
My question here on SO is mainly to ask for help about options. Is GeoNames the only option?
The Django community have other options than django-cities and django-cities-light?
Thanks in advance.
django-cities is maintained and works with Django 4. Just be careful to the installations instructions that are misleading: the package itself is not up to date on Pypi, so you need to install the project using the github repository.
Something like:
pip install git+https://github.com/coderholic/django-cities.git should work
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I have already finished setting up my home, about and contact us page using bootstrap in one project. I wanted to use the django-oscar for the e-commerce configuration and use it in my products page.
Do I need to add another project or just create another app for django-oscar?
By the way I created another project and am currently stuck on how to connect it the first project I have made
You don't need to create another project for your product's page. You can easily install Oscar (which will install Django as a dependency). It supports a simple design built with Twitter's Bootstrap.
You can read this: Getting started with Oscar and How to customise templates for create home, about and contacts pages.
Hope I help!
My company will be rolling out a new website to accompany our product launch and would like to switch over to Wordpress as our content management system. We will be utilizing a Wordpress theme that will allow users to create their own virtual events without having to log into the Wordpress dashboard (back-end). This event information will be displayed on the website for other users to view and register - this is all built into the theme we have purchased.
These virtual events will be held on our software platform, which is built on Django. We would like to utilize Wordpress to manage the login and event creation process, but would also like to have event information displayed on the Wordpress site AND imported to the Django database as well.
For example: Users will need to submit three items on the front-end Wordpress site to create an event: Title, Host Name, and Start Time. When that information is submitted can it be automatically duplicated to the Django database in addition to it being sent to the WP database?
I have already done some research on this matter, but what I have found thus far might not work for our needs. I found this presentation by Collin Anderson - it is similar to what we want to achieve, but I believe the application is a little different: http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4493-DjangoCon2014-integrating-django-and-wordpress-can-be-simple.
I have a lot of experience with Wordpress, but very limited experience with Django. This question is more for research purposes than a "how-to". We want to know if we can continue to plan on heading toward the Wordpress direction or if we should seek alternative methods for our site. I appreciate you taking moment to answer my question.
I'm working on something similar at the moment and found a good starting point was this:
http://agiliq.com/blog/2010/01/wordpress-and-django-best-buddies/
That way, as dan-klasson suggests, you can use the same database for both the wp side and the django side.
In short, first things first take a back up of the wp database in case anything goes wrong.
Create a new django project and set your settings.py to use the wp database.
In this new django project you can use ./manage.py inspectdb > models.py to autogenerate a models.py file of the wp database. Be careful here as there are differences between wp and django conventions. You will need to manually alter some of the auto generated models.py. Django supplies db_table and db_column arguments to allow you to rename tables and columns for the django part if you'd like to.
You can then create a new django app in your django project and place the models.py you've created in there. This new app will be using the same data as your wordpress site. I'm not sure exactly what you want to do but I would be very, very careful about having wordpress and django access the same data simultaneously. You may want to set the django side as read only.
You can then add other apps to extend the django side of things as you wish.
I should point out that I haven't completed my work on this yet but so far so good. I'll update as I find sticking points etc.
I'm learning Django on Ubuntu 13.04, Python 2.7, Django 1.5, Postgres 9.2,
Bootstrap 3.0. I'd like to achieve a combination of the tutorial example Polls app with django-authentication.
As my first effort I got the Polls app working from the Django 1.5 tutorial. I then installed django-registration 1.0 and these templates to make it work. I chose that package for authentication as opposed to django-allauth as a result of my question on authentication framework.
Now I want to integrate Polls and django-registration to record a set of results per user. After the poll results have been collected the admininstrator uses Django Admin interface to run a script to analyse the results (e.g. compute some statistics) and send an email to a subset of all users.
I briefly looked at two existing projects that looked like could get me there out of the box.
Light Bird's Questionnaire App was too complicated using a custom library of modular class based views. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible, using as much of out-of-the-box Django 1.5 functionality as possible for ease of maintenance and initial design.
Pinax web framework on top of Django, although a great idea, seems to be stuck in dark ages of 2011 with latest code supporting only Django 1.4 and Bootstrap 2.x. Starter projects don't look that useful and documentation isn't flash either.
Based on the above it looks like I'll have to do the integration of Polls and registration manually. At first pass I was thinking roughly the following:
The poll & choice could be simplified down to just a numeric answer to a question.
At database level we would need a separate table.
The primary key would be the userid.
Each column would store one answer per.
I'm guessing this would need a class PollsResults in model.py that would include defining the primary key as User, which should exist via django-registration.
Exactly how to do that and what follows gets a bit hazy to me at the moment.
I'm sure the above is a simple exercise for a Django developer. Could anyone give me some starting hints or even better an existing project that does something similar?
It looks like you're slightly underestimating the power of using a framework such as django. For example, you don't really need to worry too much about tables in the database or what will be their primary keys, because django's Object Relational Mapper (ORM) takes care of a lot of that for you.
If you want to connect two models (database tables) in django you can use a foreignkey like this:
class ThingOne(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
class ThingTwo(models.Model):
thing_one = models.ForeignKey('ThingOne')
The quotes around 'ThingOne' in my ForeignKey are actually unnecessary because the ThingOne model has already been defined, but I like to use quotes anyway because it means your ForeignKeys will also work for models defined below (in your code) the model linking to them.
You therefore just need to add a relationship between your Polls and User models. If one user might have many poll results you should probably use a ManyToManyField instead of a ForeignKey but the principle is the same. That should be enough to get you started.
My django site was functioning before I installed Lion and had to reinstall everything related to development. Since then, I have deleted and recreated my database, but one of my two installed apps is being ignored in syncdb. Those tables are not present in my database.
This post suggested there might be an import error. I can import the app in question using manage.py shell, so I don't think that's it.
Both apps are definitely installed (verified by debug toolbar). Any other suggestions? I'm relatively new to Django, having been mostly an iOS developer for the past couple of years.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/#app-label
If a model exists outside of the standard models.py (for instance, if the app’s models are in submodules of myapp.models), the model must define which app it is part of.
What it doesn't mention is that they also have to be imported somewhere during the model registration phase.
There's already some shipping modules such as FEDEX, Flat Rate, Per pieced and UPS but how can I let the user choose its preferred shipping method and/or price?
For those who don't know, Satchmo is a django app.
arrg I'm dumb.
Just found my answer by going through the shipping folder again and by reading the source code.
seems like I have to add the "satchmo.shipping.modules.tiered" app in my INSTALLED_APPS list.
run "python manage.py syncdb" to add the appropriate models in the database
Add some custom carriers in the Carriers table using the admin interface