Question

Currently, I am writing up a bit of a product-based CMS as my first project.

Here is my question. How can I add additional data (products) to my Product model?

I have added ‘/admin/products/add’ to my urls.py, but I don’t really know where to go from there. How would i build both my view and my template? Please keep in mind that I don’t really know all that much Python, and i am very new to Django

How can I do this all without using this existing django admin interface.

Answer 1

You will want to wire your URL to the Django create_object generic view, and pass it either ‘model’ (the model you want to create) or ‘form_class’ (a customized ModelForm class). There are a number of other arguments you can also pass to override default behaviors.

Sample URLconf for the simplest case:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from django.views.generic.create_update import create_object  from my_products_app.models import Product  urlpatterns = patterns('',     url(r'^admin/products/add/$', create_object, {'model': Product})) 

Your template will get the context variable ‘form’, which you just need to wrap in a <form> tag and add a submit button. The simplest working template (by default should go in ‘my_products_app/product_form.html’):

<form action='.' method='POST'>   {{ form }}   <input type='submit' name='submit' value='add'> </form> 

Note that your Product model must have a get_absolute_url method, or else you must pass in the post_save_redirect parameter to the view. Otherwise it won’t know where to redirect to after save.