A room booking webapp included in a content management system.

Frameworks used:

• The CMS Wagtail
• The high-level Python Web framework Django

Features

• Create rooms in the admin interface below "Snippets"
• Rooms and bookings are listed on corresponding webpages
• A visitor can create an user account
• A user can book a room

Setup

• Install Python 3, then execute in Terminal / cmd.exe: sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
• At the end of the file wagtail_room-booking/settings/base.py specify with WEEKLY_VIEW_URL which URL the week view will have and name the sites in wagtail admin accordingly later.

Developement

Edit models.py, then run python manage.py makemigrations, python manage.py migrate to adapt your database. Run python manage.py createsuperuser once. Run python manage.py runserver and open http://127.0.0.1:8000. Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin and create some rooms and sites.

You may want to use PyCharm for developing because it automatically restarts the server on code changes.

Combination of Wagtail and Django

• We define a Room in models.py and register it as a snippet. We also define a Booking which always belongs to a room.

• At room_booker_tags.py we define the tag rooms, which returns the rooms from the database. This tag can be used in html templates with {% rooms %} after loading the tags with {% load room_booker_tags %}. To each tag belongs a html file with the same name which defines how the rooms are visualized in html.

• With <a href="{% url 'booking_page' room.pk %}">Book room</a> we call the view with the name booking_page and pass the parameter room.pk. In urls.py we defined that with that name we show booking_page/1 in the url bar and call the imported view function booking_page: url(r'^booking_page/(?P<room_id>.*)/$', booking_page, name='booking_page')

• In views.py we defined that function:

   def booking_page(request, room_id):
       room = get_object_or_404(Room, pk=room_id)
       return render(request, 'room_booker/booking_page.html', {'room': room})
  

  We get the Room with that primary key from the database and pass it to the html template booking_page.html.

Hosting

Add to settings/base.py

USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [
    'your.complete.domain.de
]

Run somehow with gunicorn.

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