Django Admin

Django provides an admin site to allow CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations on registered app model.

It is a built-in feature of Django that automatically generates interface for models.

We can see the url entry for admin in urls.py file, it is implicit and generated while creating a new project.

snippet

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

It can be easily accessed by after login from the admin panel, lets run the server python3 manage.py runserver and access it through the localhost:8000/admin.

A login form will be displayed, see the below.

To login, first create admin (super user) user and provide password as we did here:

Super user is created successfully, now login.

It shows a home page after successfully login, see below.

It is an admin dashboard that provides facilities like: creating groups and users. It also used to manage the models.

Register Django Model

To register model in admin.py file. Use the admin.site.register() method and pass the Model name. See the example.

// admin.py

snippet

from django.contrib import admin
from myapp.models import Employee
admin.site.register(Employee) # Employee is registered

It provides auto generated interface to create new model object. Like, if i click on add, it renders a form with all the attributes provided in the model class.

For example, our model class contains the following code.

// models.py

snippet

from django.db import models
class Employee(models.Model):
    eid 	= models.CharField(max_length=20)
    ename 	= models.CharField(max_length=100)
    econtact = models.CharField(max_length=15)
    class Meta:
        db_table = "employee"

The auto generated form will be based on the model. We don't need to write HTML to create form. The form looks like this: