Newbe question on Creating Custom Content

[lwa...@sc-guru.com]

The tutorial says:

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Creating Custom Content Types

In order to handle different types of pages that require more structured content than provided by the RichTextPage model, you can simply create your own models that inherit from Page. For example if we wanted to have pages that were authors with books:

from django.db import models
from mezzanine.pages.models import Page

# The members of Page will be inherited by the Author model, such
# as title, slug, etc. For authors we can use the title field to
# store the author's name. For our model definition, we just add
# any extra fields that aren't part of the Page model, in this
# case, date of birth.

class Author(Page):
    dob = models.DateField("Date of birth")

class Book(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey("Author")
    cover = models.ImageField(upload_to="authors")

Next you’ll need to register your model with Django’s admin to make it available as a content type. If your content type only exposes some new fields that you’d like to make editable in the admin, you can simply register your model using the mezzanine.pages.admin.PageAdmin class:

from django.contrib import admin
from mezzanine.pages.admin import PageAdmin
from .models import Author

admin.site.register(Author, PageAdmin)

Questions:

1) I assume the first block of code is a new .py file, called Author.py?  In what directory does it go?

2) The second block goes in some existing file? Which one?

I think the Tutorial assumes some knowledge of structure that I don't understand.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Larry

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[Eduardo Rivas]

Hi Larry.

 

You’re correct; the tutorial assumes you’re comfortable writing Django applications. In this particular instance it assumes you have an app (a top-level directory, let’s call it “authors”) and you’d add the code to “authors/models.py” and “authors/admin.py”.

 

I recommend you go over the official Django tutorial where you’ll create an app called “polls” and learn how to modify its model and admin definitions. That knowledge will be essential when working with Mezzanine sites. Good luck!

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[Larry]

Thank you for the response.. I have gone through the Django tutorial and it works fine, in isolation. I tried to integrate the polls into a mezzanine project, (After fighting that for a day could not get that to work). 

So I thought the next thing to try was using the authors example and trying to integrate it into Mezzanine. Created all the files under a directory "authors": (admin.py, apps.py, models.py, tests.py, urls.py, views.py)

I don't know how to modify the urls.py within the mysite directory without breaking it. I would like to be able to call <site>/authors and get to the custom content.

Thanks,

Larry

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