Web-based local community football platform built on the Django web framework

A simple responsive online platform built on Django which allows people to get together and organise football matches in their own neighbourhood.

Notable features:

• Allows one to organise and browse football matches in the neighbourhood
• Enables users to create their own user profile along an extended user model
• Users are able to communicate with each other through a messaging platform linked to each match
• Through GeoPy and the Google Maps API match locations are pinpointed for each event
• Built using the Django authentication system (using custom password reset templates)
• Includes mail templates (from MailChimp) for sign up confirmation and password resets

Screenshot - Homepage

Screenshot - Event Detail

Screenshot - Event List

Built With

• Python 3.5.1 - The python version used
• Django 2.0 - The web framework used
• GeoPy 1.11 - The geocoding web service used
• Django-Bootstrap3 9.1 - For Bootstrap3 integration
• Django-Braces 1.11 - For Mixins
• Pip 9.01 - Recommended tool for installing Python packages

Install instructions for use on your local server [assuming 0.0.0.0:8000]

• Install the packages above by means of Pip
• In your terminal go into the project's root folder and type in the below to collect all static assets:

python manage.py collectstatic

• Link to your own SQL database in settings.py (or skip this step if you would like to proceed along Django's standard SQLite database)

• Get a Google Maps API key and insert it in the following templates:

  • events/event_form.html
  • events/event_detail.html
  • event/event_update_form.html

• make migrations and migrate

• create a superuser ("python manage.py createsuperuser")

• create a site in the admin panel (and put the corresponding site_id in your settings.py file)

• hit 'python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000' and enjoy!