Bookstore

A web bookstore implemention built for django.

Setup

• Clone the latest copy from github into your django project. Don't do this yet unless you are masochistic, because it's not usable.

• Add the bookstore to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

    'bookstore',
  

• Add a url mapping to your project's urls.py file (an empty prefix instead of bookstore/ will work, but put it last):

    (r'^bookstore/$', include('bookstore.urls')),
  

• If you don't have them already, consider adding error handlers to your project's urls.py file as well:

    handler403 = 'bookstore.views.page_access_denied'
    handler404 = 'bookstore.views.page_not_found'
    handler500 = 'bookstore.views.page_server_error'
  

• Make sure you have a MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL set up in your settings.py:

    MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/www/mydjango-project/media/'
  

• Consider adding openid support. This requires python-openid and django_openid_auth, with additional urls and settings. The quick and dirty options follow; see their installation instructions for full details.

    # in settings
    INSTALLED_APPS += 'django_openid_auth',
    
    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
        'django_openid_auth.auth.OpenIDBackend',
        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    )
    
    OPENID_CREATE_USERS = True
    OPENID_UPDATE_DETAILS_FROM_SREG = True
    OPENID_UPDATE_DETAILS_FROM_AX = True
    LOGIN_URL = '/bookstore/signin/' # note, use the same prefix as for bookstore's url mapping
    LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
    # OPENID_USE_AS_ADMIN_LOGIN = True # optional; use only once an openid has admin access
  

• Sync the database:

    % manage.py syncdb
  

• Provide css and images at {{MEDIA_URL}}bookstore/style. The files include site.css, site_ie6.css, banner.jpg, and texel.png. There's gotta be a better way for me to provide base versions of these, though...

Administration

Administration is easiest through the django admin interface. Start by adding an Author, a Genre, and a Title.