a7med3laa / Django-CarShop

My first Django project

Django-CarShop

A simple Django project can be used as a tutorial for the Django framework and its architecture. The application shows how to connect with PostgreSQL DB and how to store and retrieve data from it.

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Project functions

Create a project called myproject that has a Cars App that includes:

1. Model.py: It has two tables:

   • Driver (name and license)
   • Car (Make/Model and VIN and foreign key to the driver table)

2. views.py: It has 4 functions to view tables data and to submit new data

3. Template folder as HTML files

4. Static folder for images and CSS files

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Run Project

clone repo and open the command line in the folder directory and install virtualenv and Django

1. Virtual Environment

   Download and install virtual environment pip install virtualenv

   Convert the folder to a virtual environment virtualenv venv

   To begin with Django, you first need to activate virtualenv

   • The command to activate venv\Scripts\activate
   • The command to deactivate venv\Scripts\deactivate.bat

2. Install Django

   pip install Django

3. Install PostgreSQL

   Install Postgres here and create DB called Car and update the setting.py file with your password then run the following commands in CMD

   pip install psycopg2-binary

   To provide a connection to PostgreSQL

   Py manage.py makemigrations 

   Py manage.py migrate

   To update the project and create tables in model.py to Car DB

4. Run the project

   Py manage.py runserver