PLI-COMP490

An online module to allow non-attorneys to learn about legal processes and procedure in Cook County Illinois and to train non-lawyers to provide legal information to the community.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

*basic understanding of python *basic understanding of phpMyadmin *basic understanding of html/css

Installing

• Install the newest verion of python or 2.7
• Insatll XAMPP
• Install virtual enviorment with: pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
• cd into where the project will be created
• make a virtual enviorment with: mkvirtualenv and name it ex: mkvirtualenv test
• workon test
• then install django globally with pip install django
• create django application with: django-admin startproject test
• test that it works with python manage.py runserver
• set up database in settings file
• first install database in this case mysql with: pip install mysqlclient *create models
• create a database called pli if you don't have one in your phpmyadmin *then run python manage.py makemigrations
• then migrate with python manage.py migrate
• create user with python manage.py createsuperuser --username=Name --email=email

Common Issues and fixes

Deployment

Add additional notes about how to deploy this on a live system

Built With

• Djgango - The web framework used
• Python - language
• MySQL - database
• PhpMyAdmin - database

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Online Resources

• https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-your-first-python-and-django-application
• https://python-forum.io/Thread-Basic-Part-1-Python-3-6-and-pip-installation-under-Windows
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-django-app-and-connect-it-to-a-database
• https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/book/web_development/9781784391911/10/ch10lvl1sec63/creating-models-for-diverse-content
• https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/django_views/
• http://www.effectivedjango.com/tutorial/views.html
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django/skeleton_website *https://chrisbartos.com/articles/what-do-you-do-when-makemigrations-is-telling-you-about-your-lack-of-default-value/

Versioning

Authors

• Chlece Neal

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Chawn Neal
• Vaibhav R. Thakkar
• Participants in the Preventative Law Clinics