walterowando / crm

Guideline for Building a CRM with Django Framework

Installation

1. Setup the Virtual Environment python -3 venv [name]
2. Activate the virtual environment [name]\scripts\activate
3. Install python -m pip install Django python -m pip install --upgrade pip python -m pip install Wheel python -m pip install mysql-connector python -m pip install mysql-connector-python

Start Project with Django

1. Run on terminal django-admin startproject Your_Project_Name
2. Navigate to the ProjectName directory python manage.py startapp Your_App_Name

Navigate Back to ProjectName directory

1. Under settings.py file, go to INSTALLED_APPS, add Your_App_Name

Database

• Under settings.py file, navigate to DATABASES iff, you need to change the database to MySQL or POSTgre.

For MySQL, insert the following and delete what's there.

    `DATABASES = {
        'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
            'NAME':'Your_db_Name',
            'USER':'root',
            'PASSWORD':'password123',
            'HOST':'localhost',
            'PORT':'3306',
        }
    }`

Create a Database

Navigate to the Your_Project_Name folder directory.

• Ensure to list items of the directory.
• Type dir /b on terminal, for windows. Ensure that on the listed items, manage.py is there.
• Type type nul > Your_Database_Name.py on the terminal to create a new python file for databases

Inside the Your_Database_Name.py, type the following code;

    import mysql.connector

    # Connect to MySQL server
    dataBase = mysql.connector.connect(
        host='localhost',
        user='root',
        passwd='password123',
        auth_plugin='mysql_native_password')

    # Prepare a cursor
    cursorObject = dataBase.cursor()

    # Create a database 
    cursorObject.execute("CREATE DATABASE Your_db_Name")

    print("All Done!")

• On the Terminal, type python Your_Database_Name.py. You should see All Done! printed out.
• Incase of an error with auth, check if auth_plugin='mysql_native_password is set to native as I have.

Navigate to the Your_Project_Name folder directory.

• Ensure to list items of the directory.
• Type dir /b on terminal, for windows. Ensure that on the listed items, manage.py is there.
• Then type python manage.py migrate on the terminal

All Done! We have created our database.

Building the Application with Django