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At the Forge - Django Views and Templates

Issue 160

From Issue #160
August 2007

Aug 01, 2007  By Reuven M. Lerner
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Getting started with Django views and templates, with an eye to the Django way of working.
Conclusion

Django, like Rails and many other Web frameworks, uses MVC to divide the work between models, views and templates. This month, we saw how to connect a URL to a view, how to pass one or more URL parameters to a view and how to invoke a template from a view.

Next month, we will see how to integrate databases and data models into a Django application.

Resources

The main Django site is at www.djangoproject.com. The site contains a great deal of documentation, including tutorials and pointers to mailing lists.

A prerelease copy of the forthcoming Django book (to be published by Apress) is at www.djangobook.com/en/beta, and although the book is still unfinished in many places, it is well written and includes many examples.

Reuven M. Lerner, a longtime Web/database consultant, is a PhD candidate in Learning Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Skokie, Illinois. You can read his Weblog at altneuland.lerner.co.il.

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Submitted by DessertLover (not verified) on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 18:14.

Good article. I am newbie to framework web development. I found django to be very picky. And this article helped me get started.
Suggestion for other newbies: Follow the article strictly for the first time. After you are successful in the first pass, make changes to suit your own needs.

Minor Syntax Point

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Submitted by Milan Andric (not verified) on Fri, 10/19/2007 - 19:15.

Great article, I like your approach, I'm a fan of your column and LJ in general.

One thing that you might want to fix is the function definitions for the views. The Python code should be indented properly otherwise it won't run. Maybe my browser or the rendering was off, but you might want to check it, or just mention it.

Thanks for taking a tour of Django and writing about it. I've been using Django for a little while now and enjoy working with it very much.

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