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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

A simple form-handling example


Continuing the ongoing example of books, authors and publishers, let's create a simple view that lets users search our book database by title. Generally, there are two parts to developing a form: the HTML user interface and the backend view code that processes the submitted data. The first part is easy; let's just set up a view that displays a search form:

 
from django.shortcuts import render 
 
def search_form(request): 
    return render(request, 'search_form.html') 

As you learned in Chapter 3, Templates, this view can live anywhere on your Python path. For sake of argument, put it in books/views.py. The accompanying template, search_form.html, could look like this:

<html> 
<head> 
    <title>Search</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
    <form action="/search/" method="get"> 
        <input type="text" name="q"> 
        <input type="submit" value="Search...