Django Blog

This project can be viewed here

• Blog website made using Django and deployed on PythonAnywhere. Uses sqlite3 as database

• Profile images are compressed using Pillow before saving to db

• Website is HTTPS secured

Features:

Users can:-

✅ Register new account, login to existing one

✅ Create, update, delete posts

✅ Request password reset email

✅ Change account username, email, password

✅ Choose a custom profile picture

✅ View posts by individual user

Setup:

Always recommended to create a virtual environment

• Create a virtual environment named myenv python3 -m venv ./myenv

• Activate it source myenv/bin/activate

• Enter the virtual environment and then pip install -r requirements.txt

To run server

python manage.py runserver

To make migrations

python manage.py makemigrations

To see equivalent sql command for creating a migrations

python manage.py sqlmigrate blog 0001

To launch shell

python manage.py shell

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

• To see all users

User.objects.all()

• To see first/last user

User.objects.first() or .last()

• To filter by username

User.objects.filter(username='testuser')

• for first result

User.objects.filter(username='testuser').first()

• To get info about a user

user = User.objects.filter(username='testuser').first()

• to get user id user.id

• to get primary key for user(here same as id) user.pk

• To get user using id

User.objects.get(id=1)

• To see all posts

Post.objects.all()

• To create a new post post_1=Post(title='Blog 1', content='First post!', author=user)

• To save the post to our db post_1.save()

• Save it to a variable post post = Post.objects.first()

• Now to see it's content post.content

• To see date_posted post.date_posted

• To see post author post.author

• To see post author email post.author.email

• To see all posts by a user user.post_set user.post_set.all()

• To create a new post for a user user.post_set.create(title='Blog 3', content='Third Post')

To create users app

python manage.py startapp users

Acknowledgments:

Inspired by Corey M Schafer's Django Tutorial