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Mirage
Mirage

Reputation: 31568

Is there any way to activate django admin site without admin.py

I have many apps and i want to activate the admin for all the models in my all apps.

I remember few months one of my friend did something that enables the admin site without any admin.py file

he did something in settings.py files with INSTALLED_APPS and all of the apps showed in the admin section

I am now not able to find that. Any one??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 277

Answers (3)

Daniel Sokolowski
Daniel Sokolowski

Reputation: 12478

I recommend you do include an admin.py in your apps because it is the Django convention and that some explicitness in what you trying to achieve is a good thing; the solution I use is the following default admin.py template for all new apps I start:

# Auto registers any new models with the admin, eventually you will want a tailored admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
current_app = models.get_app(__package__) 
for model in models.get_models(current_app):
    admin.site.register(model, admin.ModelAdmin)

Upvotes: 0

Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita
Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita

Reputation: 118498

Your friend probably did something like...

from django.db.models import get_models

for model in get_models():
    admin.site.register(model)

In one of his admin.py files.

I dunno, I'd only do this to test stuff. It's a bit too magical. Remember you'll have to explicitly unregister any models you may want to register again.

Upvotes: 1

aychedee
aychedee

Reputation: 25609

Just follow the instructions in the docs. They describe how to activate the django admin site here. You need to modify urls.py. That's it.

There are even comments in that file that tell you which three lines to uncomment.

Upvotes: 1

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