kevinbond / mysite

This is the directory for Django - a Python framework

To start, in the terminal, enter:

django-admin.py startproject mysite

This creates a directory that will have a few functions - manage the web server for development and direct the URL to the app.

To create the physical app, in the terminal, enter:

python manage.py startapp hello

This will create another director.

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Files to change:

urls.py:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from hello.views import hello

urlpatterns = patterns('',
('^hello/$', hello)
)

What this really means -> ('^hello/$', hello)

'^hello/$' - This will be apart of the url to access the app. example - http://www.yoursite.com/hello

hello - This is the name of the method that will be called inside of view.py

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hello/view.py:

# Create your views here.
#sends information back to Tropo
from django.http import HttpResponse  
#This will allow you to call Tropo functions
from tropo import Tropo 
#This will bypass authorization
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
@csrf_exempt


# hello is the method name called by urls.py 
def hello(request): 
    t = Tropo()
    #This is the initial text that you want
    msg = request.POST['msg'] 
    #This sends a text reply back
    json = t.say("you just said: " + msg) 
    #This renders the reply into JSON so Tropo can read it
    json = t.RenderJson(json) 
    #This sends the JSON to Tropo
    return HttpResponse(json)

This is the app that gets runs. Notice that the method name is hello, the same as the method call in urls.py.

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To start the development web-server, in the terminal (make sure that you are in the mysite directory), enter:

python manage.pt runserver