I have to develop an e-commerce website but I am a newbie and I'm lost. I decided to use django-oscar.
The products must be updated on a daily basis from an API. To do so, I suppose I have to create a few models (The client has sent me LoginModel, ProductModel, ClientorderModel and so on). So I am assuming I have to implement those models in django to create my Catalog, right?)
Once the models are implemented, I would need to run a cron job to update the catalog every day.
I do not know if SO is the correct site to ask this question, if no, please tell me in which StackExchange site I would have to ask.
Thanks in advance.
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I am a python/Django newbie. I managed to deploy a Django based website based 'somehow' to save my job :). I know this has already been answered on SO but I couldn't get things working. I want to expand it and would like to start with a visitor counter to show what impact I made to my company. My current website is hosted on RHEL 7 using Mysql, mod_wsgi, Django 1.10, Python3.5. Is there any visitor counter with complete guide which doesn't need a lot of work to set up? Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.
There is a good Django app for that purpose called django-hitcount
It tracks the number of hits/views for chosen objects. It's easy to use.
You should checkout the documentation.
Use Google analytics for best performance. If you want it in your django app,
django-hitcount may be helpful for your project.
I have a rethinkdb. Data will get in database for every five minutes.
I want to create a website to real-time inspect this data flow from rethinkdb.
That is, when surfing the webpage, the data from db on webpages can update automatically without refreshing the webpage.
I know there are several ways to make it real-time such as django channels or websockets. However, model in django does not support rethinkdb.
Sorry I am a layman of making website and may express things inaccurately.
Can someone give me a keyword or hint?
If you make your question more specific, the community here will be able to offer you better support.
However, here is a general solution to your problem.
You will need to do two things:
Create a backend API that allows you to:
Check if new data has been added to the database
Fetch new data via a REST api request
Make frontend AJAX requests to this api
Fetch data
Periodically (every 30sec) check if there is new data
Fetch data again if new data is detected
To do this using Django as the backend, I would recommend using the Django Rest Framework to create your API.
This API should have two endpoints:
ListView of your data
Endpoint returning the id and timestamp of the last datapoint
Next you will have to create a frontend that uses javascript to make requests to these endpoints. When you fetch data, store the id and timestamp of the most recent data point. Use this to check if there is new data.
I would recommend using a Javascript framework such as Angular or react but depending on your needs these may be overkill.
EDIT:
Now that you have updated your answer to be more specific, here is my advice. It sounds like your number one priority is rethinkDB and real time data. Django is not well suited this because it is not compatible with rethinkDB. Real time support has come a long way in Django with Django channels however.
It sounds like you are early on in your project and have little to no codebase in Django. I would recommend using horizon along with rethink db. Horizon is a javascript backend built for real time data from rethinkdb.
I have a django application hosted on a server running on Apache + Ubuntu. I deployed the application using mod_wsgi. Is there any way to find out the number of visitors to my web site.
I realize that this query might have little to do with django and more do with the server. Any help would be appreciated.
Why not just use Google Analytics? You can easily monitor user behavior, traffic source, time spend on each page, etc.
If you really want to do this with Django you could write a context processor to record each request, but then you would have to write the user's IP and check if the user has not visited before and this would be incredibly imprecise since there might be different users sharing the same IP, etc.
How about using some free statistics provider like Statcounter or Google Analytics?
If you don't want to use Google Analytics or similar, but do it all yourself, you have two options:
One is to alter all views, if you are using class-based view then add a mixin (see this SO question for more information about mixins,) or if you are using the old function-based view you have to manually call another function to keep track.
The other alternative, and probably best one, is to write a middleware class, and keep track through that.
There's also this free and powerful Django app Chartbeat that you could try to work with.
Chartbeat provides real-time analytics to websites and blogs. It shows visitors, load times, and referring sites on a minute-by-minute basis. The service also provides alerts the second your website crashes or slows to a crawl.
https://django-analytical.readthedocs.io/en/latest/services/chartbeat.html
I am looking for a generic Tell a Friend application in django which will allow my website users to invite and tell about website features to one's mail or social networking friends by sending invitation email to join the website....
Any suggestion will help...
Thanks in advance...
This isn't Django, but you might consider a remotely-hosted application like ShareThis.
Otherwise, you could make use of this code, and add parameters (such as name and email address) into the URL where possible / necessary. In any case, I'm not aware of a Django-specific solution that integrates with the CMS out of the box - you might have to do it yourself, at least partly.
There's a reusable app at github called django-tellafriend.
Haven't used it myself. In the essence however it shouldn't be to hard to roll your own app for this if you have special requirements. Basically you need a form and send out an email if it's valid. If you want to keep track of the you can store the information using a simple model.
Connecting to social networks might be a little trickier, but there are also a few django apps for this like django-facebook and django-social-auth.
I have developed a small django web application. It still runs in the django development web server.
It has been decided that if more than 'n' number of users like the application, it will be approved.
I want to find out all the users who view my application.
How can find the user who views my application?
Since I was the user who ran the application, all python ways of getting the username returns my name only.
Please help.
You can look in the admin to see how many usernames are there, assuming everyone who likes it creates one. Or you can look at your server logs and count the unique IPs.
You can keep track of your visitors by adding a call to google analytics in your web pages. Or, if you do not wish to use a Google product, there are plenty of other analytics packages to keep track of visitors locally.
These packages tell you a lot more than just the number of unique visitors.
An open source alternative can be found at http://piwik.org/ . Also, see http://forge.2metz.fr/p/python-piwik/
Step 1. Add a model -- connected users. Include an FK to username and a datetime stamp.
Step 2. Write a function to log each user's activity.
Step 3. Write your own version of login that will call the Django built-in login and also call your function to log each user's activity.
Step 4. Write a small application -- outside Django -- that uses the ORM to query the connected users table and write summaries and counts and what-not.
You have a database. Use it.