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First steps¶. Are you new to Django or to programming? This is the place to start! From scratch: Overview | Installation Tutorial: Part 1: Requests and responses | Part 2: Models and the admin site | Part 3: Views and templates | Part 4: Forms and generic views | Part 5: Testing | Part 6: Static files | Part 7: Customizing the admin site | Part 8: Adding third-party packages Advanced Tutorials: How to write reusable apps | Writing your first contribution to Django
See also. If you’re new to Python, you might want to start by getting an idea of what the language is like.Django is 100% Python, so if you’ve got minimal comfort with Python you’ll probably get a lot more out of Django.
Creating a project¶. If this is your first time using Django, you’ll have to take care of some initial setup. Namely, you’ll need to auto-generate some code that establishes a Django project – a collection of settings for an instance of Django, including database configuration, Django-specific options and application-specific settings.. From the command line, cd into a directory where you’d like to store your code, then run the following command: $ django-admin startproject mysite
Contents. Django documentation contents. Indices, glossary and tables; Browse. Next: Django documentation Table of contents; General Index; Python Module Index; You are here: Django 5.0 documentation
Design your URLs¶. A clean, elegant URL scheme is an important detail in a high-quality web application. Django encourages beautiful URL design and doesn’t put any cruft in URLs, like .php or .asp.. To design URLs for an app, you create a Python module called a URLconf.A table of contents for your app, it contains a mapping between URL patterns and Python callback functions.
Contents. Using Django; Browse. Prev: Writing your first contribution for Django Next: How to install Django Table of contents; General Index; Python Module Index; You are here: Django 5.0 documentation. Using Django; Getting help
GET and POST ¶. GET and POST are the only HTTP methods to use when dealing with forms.. Django’s login form is returned using the POST method, in which the browser bundles up the form data, encodes it for transmission, sends it to the server, and then receives back its response.. GET, by contrast, bundles the submitted data into a string, and uses this to compose a URL.The URL contains the address where the data must be sent, as well as the data keys and values.
“How-to” guides¶. Here you’ll find short answers to “How do I….?” types of questions. These how-to guides don’t cover topics in depth – you’ll find that material in the Using Django and the API Reference.However, these guides will help you quickly accomplish common tasks.
Field types¶. Each field in your model should be an instance of the appropriate Field class. Django uses the field class types to determine a few things: The column type, which tells the database what kind of data to store (e.g. INTEGER, VARCHAR, TEXT). The default HTML widget to use when rendering a form field (e.g. <input type="text">, <select>).; The minimal validation requirements, used in Django’s admin and in automatically-generated forms.
What are automated tests?¶ Tests are routines that check the operation of your code. Testing operates at different levels. Some tests might apply to a tiny detail (does a particular model method return values as expected?) while others examine the overall operation of the software (does a sequence of user inputs on the site produce the desired result?That’s no different from the kind of testing you did earlier in Tutorial 2, using the shell to examine the behavior of a method, or running ...
