In the previous chapter, you added internationalization to your online shop project. You also built a coupon system and a product recommendation engine. In this chapter, you will create a new project. You will build an e-Learning platform creating a custom content management system.
In this chapter, you will learn how to:
Our last practical project will be an e-Learning platform. In this chapter, we are going to build a flexible Content Management System (CMS) that allows instructors to create courses and manage their contents.
First, create a virtual environment for your new project and activate it with the following commands:
mkdir env virtualenv env/educa source env/educa/bin/activate
Install Django in your virtual environment with the following command:
pip install Django==1.8.5
We are going to manage image uploads in our project, so we also need to install Pillow with the following command:
pip install Pillow==2.9.0
Create a new project using the following command:
django-admin startproject educa
Enter the new educa
directory and create a new application using the following commands:
cd educa django-admin startapp courses
Edit the settings.py
file of the educa
project and add courses
to the INSTALLED_APPS
setting as follows:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'courses',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
)
The courses
application is now active for the project. Let's define the models for courses and course contents.