AntiqueAndRare

Books Trading Platform

AntiqueAndRare, a web application to trade the books in different languages, allows users to search books with given filters.

As a new user, you have ability to: Sign up (create account) specifying: languages, location (zip code) and other info. See the books in your area providing your zip code. A user can search for books by title, author, language, ISBN, Genre and Age group.

After registration, you can to log in and: Add books to your bookshelf Edit and delete books from your bookshefl Search for books and sort according to Title, Author or Date(newest first). Send a “Request” for the right book to invite its owner to search your “bookshelf” or send a specific choice what you make. Accept, Decline others' user requests for your book.

We used: Django for full stack development process, HTML for frond-end and Postgres for Database

Steps for run the project on server:

1. Check that you have python installed using the following command:

python --version

(use python3 for all following commands if you have python version 3.x)

2. Install Django using the following command:

pip install django

3. Navigate to the project directory in the terminal using the following command:

cd <name_of_the_directory>

4. Create a virtual enviroment using the following command:

python -m venv env

5. Activate the virtual enviroment using the following command:

source env/bin/activate

6. Install project dependencies by running the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Set up the database by running the following commands:

python manage.py makemigrations

and

python manage.py migrate

8. Create a superuser by running the following command and following the prompts:

python manage.py createsuperuser

9. Finally :), to run the server using the following command:

python manage.py runserver

10. Go to 'python manage.py runserver'

11. Create Categories in admin mode. For do it:

• go to "url/admin"
• log in with super user account
• add categories by template: "number_of_category) name_of_category" sorted by age
• log out

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Steps to Setup PostgreSQL (from sqlite3):

1. move .env file to book_trader/ directory (it should be done already after merging pr)
2. install django-environ pip install django-environ
3. install postgres pip install psycopg2 (you probably already have it installed)
4. dump existing data to a json file python manage.py dumpdata > whole.json (optional)
5. change book_trader/settings.py (already done)
6. go to psql using psql -U postgres a) create a new database REATE DATABASE your_db_name; b) create a new user CREATE USER your_name WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'your_password'; c) grant all access to this user GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE antique_and_rare TO your_name;` d) Save the db name, username, and password for further use.
7. make migrations python manage.py makemigrations
8. migrate python manage.py migrate, if encounter error saying psycopg2.errors.UndefinedTable: relation "some table" does not exist, migrate each app indivisually, then migrate again.
9. run python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb to make sure db is connected
10. open python shell, python manage.py shell a)>>>from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType b)`>>>ContentType.objects.all().delete()
11. load your saved data into new db python manage.py loaddata whole.json
12. run python server python manage.py runserver