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Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 2 by Example

By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django 2, then this book is for you. You will walk through the creation of four professional Django 2 projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. The book will teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and set up a production environment for your Django 2 projects. The book walks you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Django 2 and how to build advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Posting content from other websites

We will allow users to bookmark images from external websites. The user will provide the URL of the image, a title, and optional description. Our application will download the image and create a new Image object in the database.

Let's start by building a form to submit new images. Create a new forms.py file inside the Images application directory and add the following code to it:

from django import forms
from .models import Image

class ImageCreateForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Image
fields = ('title', 'url', 'description')
widgets = {
'url': forms.HiddenInput,
}

As you would notice in this preceding code, this form is a ModelForm form built from the Image model, including only the title, url, and description fields. Users will not enter the...