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 a HTML file named myfirst.html.

The file structure should be something like this:

myworld
    manage.py
    myworld/
    members/
        templates/
            myfirst.html

Open the HTML file and insert the following:

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 index view with this:

members/views.py:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader

def index(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 myworld folder.

Look up the INSTALLED_APPS[] list and add the members app like this:

myworld/settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'members.apps.MembersConfig'
]

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

(myproject)C:\Users\Your Name\myproject\myworld>

Start the server by navigating to the /myworld 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: