Before we start looking at views and URLs, let's create a sample application to experiment with. Since most books and examples use blog models as their demos, let's keep things fresh by making our demo a press release application for a company website. The press release object will have a title, body, published date, and author name.
In the root directory of your project (in the directory projects/mycompany), create the press application by using the startapp command:
$ python manage.py startapp press This will create a press folder in your site. Edit the mycompany/press/models.py file:
from django.db import models
class PressRelease(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
body = models.TextField()
pub_date = models.DateTimeField()
author = models.CharField(max_length=100)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.title