I am a novice in Python and would like to build a website similar to Etsy (same basic functionality, different market).
Functionality:
-User (buyer/seller) profiles
-Ability to upload pictures
-Seller posting
-User-to-user messaging
-Payment platform (directly from buyer to seller)
Can someone please recommend an appropriate Python/Django CMS that would provide: (1) the functionality above and, (2) also be easy for a novice to use?
Thanks!
There is a django based CMS project, which supports many 3rd party plugins.
But you need to learn how to setup a django project first.
https://github.com/divio/django-cms
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I want to build a django oscar ecommerce web app.
A Required fearure in this app is a content management system, therefore I want to integrate django-cms in my app. After some research I found apphooks but there is no guide on google for integration of django-oscar and django-cms.
Can anyone tell me the way to solve this issue?
Not sure if you still looking for this solution, but i created a content management system by combining Django-CMS and Oscar Commerce with tons of additional features including user messasaging, docker support, graphql, support for several payment providers and more.
https://github.com/bastianhilton/alternate-cms
Depending on what kind of integration you want to do, you should check Wagtail which is another Django CMS, well documented, the community seems to be growing up.
Adding Wagtail to an existing project is explained here and works well with a django-oscar project.
I am looking for a guide to migrate Django project to Google App Engine and use Google's datastore. The most of the guides I found were linked to Django-Appengine using Django-nonrel (but I want to use GAE's native support).
Going through GAE getting started guide, it says:
Google App Engine supports any framework written in pure Python that speaks CGI (and any WSGI-compliant framework using a CGI adaptor), including Django, CherryPy, Pylons, web.py, and web2py. You can bundle a framework of your choosing with your application code by copying its code into your application directory.
I understand that I won't be able to use some features of Django in that case (majorly the admin feature) and would also need to restructure the models.
From other reading, I also found that latest SDK of GAE now includes Django 1.3 on Python 2.5.
I tried to put all files from my Django application to a GAE project, but couldn't get it all to work together.
Please provide some basic guide using which I may migrate my Django project to Google App Engine's code.
Thanks.
For an existing Django app, using django-nonrel is the simplest approach; it is very popular so you should be able to find help with specific errors you get quickly.
Another approach is written up in this article: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/pure_django.html -- it goes the other way, taking an App Engine app that uses Django for dispatch, templates, and forms, but not for models, and describes how to make it run in a native Django environment. Maybe you can glean some useful hints for your situation from it.
I've used django-nonrel, which behaves pretty much like django, except that operations with JOINs will return errors. I've basically worked around this by avoiding ManyToMany fields, and essentially building that functionality manually with an intermediate table.
So far I've ran into two problems with Django-nonrel:
1. No access to ancestor queries, which can be run in a transaction. There's a pending pull request for this feature though.
2. You can't specify fields that are not indexed. This could significantly increase your write costs. I have an idea to fix this, but I haven't done so yet.
(Edit: You CAN specify fields that are not indexed, and I've verified this works well).
2 (new). Google is pushing a new database backend called ndb that does automatic caching and batching, which will not be available with django-nonrel.
If you decide not to use django-nonrel, the main differences are that Django models do not run under App Engine. You'll have to rewrite your models to inherit from App Engine's db.Model. Your forms that use Django's ModelForm will need to inherit from google.appengine.ext.db.djangoforms instead. Once you're on App Engine, you'd have to port back Django if you ever take your app somewher else.
If you already have a Django application you might want to check this out. You won't work with App Engine's datastore but Google Cloud SQL might fit your needs.
Graph database systems like ne04j seem to becoming very popular of late. I am a newbie user who is trying to set-up a website that needs to display some data which is best displayed using a graph database (essentially i will visualize this on the website).
I am designing this website using CMS Drupal but i am open to changing to other CMS or in worst case a web application framework like Django. Can anyone suggest me a basic template, website or extension to a CMS that enable graph databases or a good way to start learning web app development using graph databases for a noob ?
Well, if you're curious about using Drupal to manage graphs, I'd recommend looking over these contributed modules:
http://drupal.org/project/graphapi
http://drupal.org/project/charts
http://drupal.org/project/views_charts
http://drupal.org/project/charts_graphs
There is http://structr.org/, a CMS built on Neo4j and very Open and capable. Other bindings, you might take a look at REST bindings and neo4j embedded bindings to get going.
If you're looking for even more alternatives for charting in Drupal, then you may want to start from the Comparison of charting module, which includes information and links about quite a lot of charting related modules in Drupal.
If you're aware of other modules not included in it, please update that docu if you can, or let me know about it.
I'm looking for some open source, free to change and use Intranet written on Python+Django.
Just want to find some foundation to build site on top of it.
If you're looking for a prebuilt site, have a look at Django-CMS, a Content Management System. If what you need is very simple, and you have a large amount of trust in your Users, you can probably get away using the admin contrib package that comes with Django.
For deployment, you're looking at setting up an Apache web server on an internal server somewhere, installing mod_wsgi, and deploying that way. There are many tutorials on how to do this.
Can you please what are features that are needed on your intranet. As Josh suggested, the Django-CMS will do good in most of the cases.
I was hoping to get some suggestions on some best approaches to develop a multi tenant Django project on Google AppEngine.
Some Thoughts to Consider.
I would assume using djnago.contrib.sites is a must.
I would like to use existing applications such as django-profiles and django-registration, I know their models would need porting.
Can multiple domains be pointed to the GAE App and the site be automatically chosen from the request headers?
IF not multiple domains, is there a way to say take a request say to www.example.com/tenantA/login and www.example.com/tenantB/login and push them to one view but with knowledge tennant without changing all the views, maybe using custom managers to hide the complexity from the views.
Generally hoping this will be a discussion of any approaches you have taken in the past or plan to take.
Looking forward to any Comments/Answers.
Regards
Mark
I can answer the App Engine questions for you, though I don't know the Django ones:
Yes, anyone can point a domain to your app using Google Apps, with the 'add services' option, entering your App ID when prompted. You can then check the 'Host' header to determine what site you want to use.
You can hide information per-tenant by using hooks to automatically insert the host in entities and queries: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/hooks.html
Today Google released SDK 1.3.6, which includes multi-tenancy baked right into the solution.
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/08/multi-tenancy-support-high-performance_17.html