On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Bradley Hintze
<bradle...@aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote:
> I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and
> url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get
> something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do
> they tie together? I probably need to do the tutorial again. It seems
> to me getting info from the user should be strait foreword but its not
> as displayed by the rather lengthy tutorial. But than I'm new to
> this...
I think tutorial tries to show off django's features and how easy is to get
a data-driven web app with few code.
Anyway, django doesn't do any magic at all. You don't need models if you don't
store the information in a database. You don't need use django's templates
if you don't want.
Usually, in your view _you_ tie together the model with the template and
return a response which django pass to the user doing all the http stuff.
Try this:
""" file mytest.py """
# you require to return a HttpResponse instance in your view
from django.http import HttpResponse
# handler* are required for the urlresolver
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, handler404, handler500
# minimal settings
DEBUG = True
# tell django to use this file to find urlpatterns. see below
ROOT_URLCONF = "mytest"
# a basic callback to return something to the user. "view" in django's idiom
def myview(request):
# you can use html content if you want
return HttpResponse("Boo!")
# finally tie a url route to our view
urlpatterns = patterns("",
# the regex is used to match whatever after /
# ^$ means "nothing", so route the url / to our callback "myview"
(r"^$", myview),
)
# /end
That's all you need. Then run: (you are in linux?)
$ PYTHONPATH=. django-admin.py runserver --settings=mytest
PYTONPATH=. <- needed to tell python where to find our mytest.py
--settings=mytest <- needed to tell django where to find the
"project's settings"
If you want learn and/or have more control over all the things and
stay "close to the iron",
you can try a micro-framework or go directly to wsgi. Search for:
werkzeug, web.py, flask, etc
Regards,
~Rolando
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