Re: Can i access my database with Django?(Urgent)

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Giorgos Kontogiorgakis
<shortgeorgeaek@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
> I am new to Django and Python as well!I have a project to make and i'm
> really confused of what i must do to start it!I hope that you can help me
> somehow to make a start!First of all i have been given an existing database
> with existing tables and columns in it!I started reading Django tutorial 1 &
> 2,i edited the setting.py (DATABASES 'default' item) to match my database
> connection settings.I made the admin part as well and i can log in
> successfully!The thing is that i want to inform the webui from my
> database.For example,i have a table named Nodes with many fields in it and i
> want my webui to "see" this table and its fields so i can see them in my
> webui,access them and edit them!At the tutorial making classes is like
> creating new Tables,and this is not the thing i want to do!Is there any way
> that i can access my already existing database and inform my webui?
>

Django models can specify the table name for a model, or the column
names for a particular field. It can also automatically inspect your
database and produce models from it:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/legacy-databases/

Bear in mind that it will not always make the right choice when
translating a column field to a model field.

Cheers

Tom

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