Please take a look at
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/legacy-databases/
On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 3:16:29 PM UTC-4, MPY wrote:
>
> Hi everyone , I am new with Django and I try to connect with external
> database to read the data and show in my view.
>
> Hi create a new entry in setting.py file with the new database info that I
> want connect. Something like this.
>
> 'externDB': {
> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
> 'NAME': '*****',
> 'USER': '*****',
> 'PASSWORD': '*****',
> 'HOST': '*****',
> 'PORT': '',
> }
>
> In the View file inside my app I create this to read the info from the
> database
>
> def index(request):
> all_rows = NewModel.objects.using('externDB').all()
> return render_to_response('info/index.html', {'rows': all_rows})
>
> But now I obtain this error
>
> global name 'NewModel' is not defined
>
>
> I undestand the error, I have to include the model, something like that "from
> info.models import NewModel"
>
>
> but my model in empty, I don't want to save any data from the model, to my
> local database, I only want to read then and show in my view.
>
>
> Any idea , I am missing something with the models, any example that I can
> read to understand better.
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
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