social-commerce-project

Sample project to help you get started using Pinax and Satchmo to create great social e-commerce websites.

The current version uses Django 1.2.1, Pinax 0.9a1 and Satchmo 0.9.2

This has been tested with python 2.5 and 2.6

Check out a sample site here. http://social-commerce-demo.hbussell.com You can login with demo:demo

Installation

Create the virutalenv

mkdir test-site
virtualenv --no-site-packages env
source env/bin/activate
easy_install pip

Get the social-commerce-project

git clone git://github.com/hbussell/social-commerce-project.git

Install the requirements

cd social-commerce-project/socialcommerce
pip install -r requirements.txt

# or you can use stable-requirements.txt to install specific editable
versions

Create the database and optionally load the sample data

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py satchmo_load_l10n
python manage.py satchmo_load_store

If you are using MySQL satchmo requires utf-8

DATABASE_OPTIONS = {
   'init_command' : 'SET NAMES "utf8"',
   }

Find out more options for the satchmo configuration http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/new_installation.html#customizing-the-settings

Start it up

python manage.py runserver

This project is uses the MIT License