Add ClickCount model to store how many times testapp has been requested

djangoTest/settings.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
 # Application definition
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
+    'testapp.apps.TestappConfig',
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',

testapp/admin.py

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 from django.contrib import admin
+from .models import ClickCount
 
 # Register your models here.
+
+admin.site.register(ClickCount)

testapp/migrations/0001_initial.py

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Generated by Django 4.2.11 on 2024-05-19 18:39
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = [
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='ClickCount',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('clicks', models.IntegerField(default=0)),
+            ],
+        ),
+    ]

testapp/models.py

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 from django.db import models
 
 # Create your models here.
+
+# This is a simple model that stores a click count
+class ClickCount(models.Model):
+    clicks = models.IntegerField(default=0)
+    # This method provices a string representation of the model
+    def __str__(self):
+        return f"ClickCount: {self.clicks}"

testapp/views.py

@@ -1,11 +1,21 @@
 from django.shortcuts import render
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 
+# Import models that we need to use
+from .models import ClickCount
+
 # Create your views here.
-
-
 def index_view(request):
+    # Get the number of clicks from the database
+    click_count = ClickCount.objects.first()
+    # If the click_count is None, then we have not yet clicked
+    if click_count is None:
+        click_count = ClickCount(1)
+        click_count.save()
+    # Increment the click count
+    click_count.clicks += 1
+    click_count.save()
     # When this view is requested we will respond with this text
-    text = "Hello World! This is the testapp."
+    text = "Hello World! This is the testapp.<br>This page was requested " + str(click_count.clicks) + " times."
     # Build a Http response with our text and send it to the requester
     return HttpResponse(text)