A web application built to share Innovate, Inspiring News

SOLVING THE pipenv install ERRORS

Should you run into a missing distutils error altho it is installed simply run the command below

sudo apt-get install python3.8-distutils

#Otherwise install the various dependencies with pip as shown below
pip install mysqlclient

Project Screenshots

ADMIN INTERFACE FRONT END

Key Features To Implement:

Create the specific models and setting up the admin site for the blog //I changed something

1. Share the stories to other users
2. Allow Commenting on the stories
3. Add a story tag functionality
4. Use the tags to create a recommendation system
5. Create a post feed
6. Add a search feature

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

A Django Project is the main django installation with the Project Settings

A Django Application is often used to interact with the framework and provide specific functionalities.

An Example is a Website with multiple Functionalities such as :

1. A Blog
2. Wiki
3. Forum

It can also be used by other projects

Converting THE MIGRATIONS INTO SQL

´´´shell python manage.py sqlmigrate blog_app 0001 ´´´

QUERYSETS AND MANAGERS

Querysets are essential for building any database driven applications

Implementing the Object Relational Mapper

NB: Open the Default Shell For Our Django Applications

python manage.py shell

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from blog_app.models import Post
>>> user = User.objects.get(username='phx')
>>> post = Post('title'='Post from the Terminal', slug='terminal-post', body='hello from term')
>>> post.save()

Presenting data to the Application

1. Template Tags control the rendering of the template -> {% tag %}

2. Template Variables get replaced with values when the template is rendered -> {{ variable }}

3. Template filters allow you to modify variables for display -> {{ variable|filter }}