Django Templates
Templates
In the Django Intro page, we learned that the result should be in HTML, and it should be created in a template, so let's do that.
Create a templates folder inside the members folder, and create an HTML file named myfirst.html.
The file structure should be like this:
my_tennis_club
manage.py
my_tennis_club/
members/
templates/
myfirst.html
Open the HTML file and insert the following:
my_tennis_club/members/templates/myfirst.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<p>Welcome to my first Django project!</p>
</body>
</html>Modify the View
Open the views.py file and replace the members view with this:
my_tennis_club/members/views.py:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader
def members(request):
template = loader.get_template('myfirst.html')
return HttpResponse(template.render())Change Settings
To be able to work with more complicated stuff than "Hello World!", We have to tell Django that a new app is created.
This is done in the settings.py file in the my_tennis_club folder.
Look up the INSTALLED_APPS[] list and add the members app like this:
my_tennis_club/my_tennis_club/settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'members'
]Then run this command:
py manage.py migrate
Which will produce this output:
Operations to perform:
Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions
Running migrations:
Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK
Applying auth.0001_initial... OK
Applying admin.0001_initial... OK
Applying admin.0002_logentry_remove_auto_add... OK
Applying admin.0003_logentry_add_action_flag_choices... OK
Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK
Applying auth.0002_alter_permission_name_max_length... OK
Applying auth.0003_alter_user_email_max_length... OK
Applying
auth.0004_alter_user_username_opts... OK
Applying auth.0005_alter_user_last_login_null... OK
Applying
auth.0006_require_contenttypes_0002... OK
Applying auth.0007_alter_validators_add_error_messages... OK
Applying
auth.0008_alter_user_username_max_length... OK
Applying auth.0009_alter_user_last_name_max_length... OK
Applying auth.0010_alter_group_name_max_length... OK
Applying auth.0011_update_proxy_permissions... OK
Applying auth.0012_alter_user_first_name_max_length... OK
Applying sessions.0001_initial... OK
(myworld) C:\Users\Your Name\myworld\my_tennis_club>
Start the server by navigating to the /my_tennis_club folder and execute this command:
py manage.py runserver
In the browser window, type 127.0.0.1:8000/members/ in the address bar.
The result should look like this:
