Renamed install.py to setup.py to sound more Python-y and finished up the blog upload/views for posts.

admin.py

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, \
     abort, render_template, flash, Blueprint
 from flask.ext.mysqldb import MySQL
+import datetime
 
 admin = Blueprint('admin', __name__,
                         template_folder='templates')
+import flask_site
 
 @admin.route('/')
 def home():
@@ -17,7 +19,9 @@ def posts():
     if not session.get('logged_in'):
         return redirect(url_for('login'))
     else:
-        return render_template('admin/posts.html')
+        g.db.execute('SELECT * FROM blog_posts ORDER BY updated_on DESC')
+        entries = [dict(title=row[1],  category=row[3], tags=row[4], created=row[6].strftime("%d-%m-%Y"), updated=row[7].strftime("%d-%m-%Y")) for row in g.db.fetchall()]
+        return render_template('admin/posts.html', entries=entries)
 
 @admin.route('/new-post', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
 def new_post():
@@ -25,9 +29,8 @@ def new_post():
         return redirect(url_for('login'))
     else:
         if request.method == 'POST':
-            g.db.execute('insert into blog_posts (title, text, category, tags, created_on, updated_on) values (?, ?, ?, ?, str(datetime.datetime.now()), str(datetime.datetime.now()))',
-            [request.form['title'], request.form['text'], request.form['category'], request.form['tags']])
-            g.db.commit()
+            g.db.execute("insert into blog_posts (title, text, category, tags, url, created_on, updated_on) values ('{0}', '{1}', '{2}', '{3}', '{4}', '{5}', '{6}')" .format(request.form['title'], request.form['text'], request.form['category'], request.form['tags'], request.form['title'].lower().replace(' ', '-'), str(datetime.datetime.now()), str(datetime.datetime.now())))
+            flask_site.mysql.connection.commit()
             flash('New post added successfully')
             return redirect(url_for('blog'))
         else:
@@ -41,7 +44,7 @@ def edit_post():
         if request.method == 'POST':
             g.db.execute('UPDATE blog_posts SET (title, text, category, tags, updated_on) values (?, ?, ?, ?,  str(datetime.datetime.now()))',
             [request.form['title'], request.form['text'], request.form['category'], request.form['tags']])
-            g.db.commit()
+            flask_site.mysql.connection.commit()
             flash('New post added successfully')
             return redirect(url_for('blog'))
         else:

flask_site.py

@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@ from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, \
     abort, render_template, flash
 from flask.ext.mysqldb import MySQL
 import hashlib
+from flask_debugtoolbar import DebugToolbarExtension
 from admin import admin
 
+
 app = Flask(__name__)
 app.config.from_pyfile('config.py')
 app.secret_key = app.config['SECRET_KEY']
 mysql = MySQL(app)
+toolbar = DebugToolbarExtension(app)
 
 app.register_blueprint(admin, url_prefix='/admin')
 
@@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ def teardown_request(exception):
 @app.route('/')
 def home():
     g.db.execute('SELECT * FROM blog_posts ORDER BY updated_on DESC')
-    entries = [dict(title=row[1], text=row[2], created=row[5].strftime("%B %d, %Y"), updated=row[6].strftime("%B %d, %Y")) for row in g.db.fetchall()]
+    entries = [dict(title=row[1], text=row[2], url=row[5], created=row[6].strftime("%B %d, %Y"), updated=row[7].strftime("%B %d, %Y")) for row in g.db.fetchall()]
     return render_template('home.html', entries=entries)
 
 @app.route('/bio')
@@ -37,9 +40,16 @@ def bio():
 @app.route('/blog')
 def blog():
     g.db.execute('SELECT * FROM blog_posts ORDER BY id DESC')
-    entries = [dict(title=row[1], text=row[2], created=row[5].strftime("%B %d, %Y"), updated=row[6].strftime("%B %d, %Y")) for row in g.db.fetchall()]
+    entries = [dict(title=row[1], text=row[2], url=row[5], created=row[6].strftime("%B %d, %Y"), updated=row[7].strftime("%B %d, %Y")) for row in g.db.fetchall()]
     return render_template('blog.html', entries=entries)
 
+@app.route('/blog/<url>')
+def blog_post(url):
+    g.db.execute('SELECT * FROM blog_posts WHERE url="%s"' % url)
+    row = g.db.fetchone()
+    post = [dict(title=row[1], text=row[2], category=row[3], tags=row[4], created=row[6].strftime("%B %d, %Y"), updated=row[7].strftime("%B %d, %Y"))]
+    return render_template('blog-post.html', post=post)
+
 @app.route('/projects')
 def projects():
     return render_template('projects.html')

schema.sql

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CREATE TABLE blog_posts (
     text VARCHAR( 10000 ) DEFAULT NULL ,
     category VARCHAR( 50 ) DEFAULT NULL ,
     tags VARCHAR( 100 ) DEFAULT NULL ,
+    url VARCHAR(500) DEFAULT NULL UNIQUE,
     created_on DATETIME NOT NULL ,
     updated_on TIMESTAMP NOT NULL ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
 );

static/css/style.css

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ td ul {
 	margin: 5px;
 }
 
-input {
+input, textarea {
   background-color: #FFF;
   color: #002900;
   border: 1px solid #002900;
@@ -464,6 +464,28 @@ a.social-link:hover, a.social-link:active {
     color: #fff;
 }
 
+/* Admin Styles */
+.admin-table {
+	width: 100%;
+}
+
+.admin-table th, .admin-table td {
+	padding: 10px 5px;
+}
+
+.admin-table tr:first-child th, {
+	padding-bottom: 5px;
+
+}
+.admin-table tr:first-child td {
+	padding-top: 5px;
+}
+
+
+.admin-table th:first-child, .admin-table td:first-child {
+	width: 50%;
+}
+
 @media screen and (max-width:1024px) {
 	.main-nav, #nav {
 		position: absolute;

templates/admin/new-post.html

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 {% extends 'admin/master.html' %}
 {% block body %}
-<h1 style="border-width: 0px; text-align: center; min-height: 120px; position: relative; overflow: hidden;">
-    <span>congrats, it worked</span>
-</h1>
+<div class="section">
+    <h2>new post</h2>
+    <form action="{{ url_for('admin.new_post') }}" method="post">
+        <dl>
+            <dt>Title:</dt>
+            <dd><input type="text" size=30 name="title"></dd>
+            <dt>Text:</dt>
+            <dd><textarea name="text" rows=5 cols=40></textarea></dd>
+            <dt>Category:</dt>
+            <dd><input type="text" size=30 name="category"></dd>
+            <dt>Tags:</dt>
+            <dd><input type="text" size=30 name="tags"></dd>
+            <dd><input type="submit" value="Publish"></dd>
+        </dl>
+    </form>
+</div>
 {% endblock %}

templates/admin/posts.html

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{% extends "admin/master.html" %}
+{% block body %}
+<div class="section">
+    <h2>posts</h2>
+    <a href="{{ url_for('admin.new_post') }}">Add new post</a>
+    <table class="admin-table">
+        <thead>
+            <tr>
+                  <th>title</th>
+                  <th>category</th>
+                  <th>tags</th>
+                  <th>comments</th>
+                  <th>published</th>
+                  <th>updated</th>
+              </tr>
+        </thead>
+        <tbody>
+              {% for entry in entries %}
+              <tr>
+                    <td>{{ entry.title }}</td>
+                    <td>{{ entry.category }}</td>
+                    <td>{{ entry.tags }}</td>
+                    <td>{{ entry.comments }}</td>
+                    <td>{{ entry.created }}</td>
+                    <td>{{ entry.updated }}</td>
+                </tr>
+              {% else %}
+              <em>Get to writing!</em>
+              {% endfor %}
+          </tbody>
+      </table>
+  </div>
+{% endblock %}

templates/blog-post.html

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{% extends 'master.html' %}
+{% block body %}
+{% for data in post %}
+<div class="section">
+      <h2>{{ data.title }}</h2>
+      <em>{{ data.updated }}</em>
+      {{ data.text | safe }}
+</div>
+{% endfor %}
+{% endblock %}

templates/blog.html

@@ -1,23 +1,12 @@
 {% extends "master.html" %}
 {% block body %}
-  {% if session.logged_in %}
-    <form action="{{ url_for('add_entry') }}" method=post class=add-entry>
-      <dl>
-        <dt>Title:
-        <dd><input type=text size=30 name=title>
-        <dt>Text:
-        <dd><textarea name=text rows=5 cols=40></textarea>
-        <dd><input type=submit value=Share>
-      </dl>
-    </form>
-  {% endif %}
   <div class="section">
       <h2>blog</h2>
   {% for entry in entries %}
       <div class="blog-entry">
-            <h3>{{ entry.title }}</h3>
+            <h3><a href="{{ url_for('blog') }}/{{ entry.url }}">{{ entry.title }}</a></h3>
             <h5>{{ entry.updated }}</h5>
-            <p>{{ entry.text|safe }}</p>
+            {{ entry.text|safe }}
         </div>
   {% else %}
       <em>Sorry, I still haven't gotten around to moving my blog posts over!</em>

templates/home.html

@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
     <h2 style="margin-top: 0;">from my blog</h2>
     {% for entry in entries %}
         <div class="blog-entry">
-            <h3>{{ entry.title }}</h3>
+            <h3><a href="{{ url_for('blog') }}/{{ entry.url }}">{{ entry.title }}</a></h3>
             <h5>{{ entry.updated }}</h5>
-            <p>{{ entry.text|safe }}</p>
+            {{ entry.text|safe }}
         </div>
     {% else %}
         <em>Sorry, I still haven't gotten around to moving my blog posts over!</em>