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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
4.6 (5)
Book Image

Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.6 (5)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

Django 4 By Example is the 4th edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You'll cover a wide range of web app development topics as you build four different apps: A blog application: Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL. A social website: Implement authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, image thumbnails, a bookmarklet, and an activity stream. Implement a user follower system and add infinite scroll pagination to your website. An e-commerce application: Build a product catalog, a shopping cart, and asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications via webhooks. Build a product recommendation engine with Redis. Create PDF invoices and export orders to CSV. An e-learning platform: Create a content management system to manage polymorphic content. Cache content with Memcached and Redis. Build and consume a RESTful API. Implement a real-time chat using WebSockets with ASGI. Create a production environment using NGINX, uWSGI and Daphne with Docker Compose. This is a practical book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Recommending posts by email

Now, we will learn how to create forms and how to send emails with Django. We will allow users to share blog posts with others by sending post recommendations via email.

Take a minute to think about how you could use views, URLs, and templates to create this functionality using what you learned in the preceding chapter.

To allow users to share posts via email, we will need to:

  • Create a form for users to fill in their name, their email address, the recipient email address, and optional comments
  • Create a view in the views.py file that handles the posted data and sends the email
  • Add a URL pattern for the new view in the urls.py file of the blog application
  • Create a template to display the form

Creating forms with Django

Let’s start by building the form to share posts. Django has a built-in forms framework that allows you to create forms easily. The forms framework makes it simple to define the...