Django-Sail-Forum

Django based discussion forum for Scripting Languages Lecture on Gdansk University of Technology.

General information

• Classic discussion forum
• Admin users can create new boards.
• Users start new topic under existing boards.
• Users can post replies to existing topics.

Technologies used

• Python
• Django

Functionalities

• User signup
• User login
• Password reset
• Boards creation
• Topic creation
• Replies to topic
• Roles based avatars

Database schema

Site map

Screenshots

Instruction

1. Install Python 3, Git.
2. Clone repo.
3. Run run pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. Generate Django secret key for project. Run python generate_secret_key.py and copy the output string.
5. Paste it in .env file at SECRET_KEY.
6. Run python manage.py migrate to apply database migrations.
7. Create a user python manage.py createsuperuser.
8. Run live server python manage.py runserver.
9. Open in browser 127.0.0.1:8000/.

Credits

Project based on