Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

Creating a Django application and models

In this section, we will implement our blog application as well as a Django model called Post, which contains the object-oriented logic for the posts in our blog:

1. First, in the manage.py panel, enter the following command:

manage.py@mysite > startapp blog

2. This, as we have seen, will create a subfolder within our current project directory named blog with all the various Django-specific Python scripts for our blog application. Now, within the blog/models.py file, enter the following code (again, manually typing in the code is highly recommended):

from django.db import modelsfrom django.utils import timezonefrom django.contrib.auth.models import Userclass Post(models.Model):    STATUS_CHOICES = { ('draft', ...