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Django 4 for the Impatient

By : Greg Lim, Daniel Correa
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Django 4 for the Impatient

By: Greg Lim, Daniel Correa

Overview of this book

Learning Django can be a tricky and time-consuming activity. There are hundreds of tutorials, loads of documentation, and many explanations that are hard to digest. However, this book enables you to use and learn Django in just a couple of days. In this book, you’ll go on a fun, hands-on, and pragmatic journey to learn Django full stack development. You'll start building your first Django app within minutes. You'll be provided with short explanations and a practical approach that cover some of the most important Django features, such as Django Apps’ structure, URLs, views, templates, models, CSS inclusion, image storage, authentication and authorization, Django admin panel, and many more. You'll also use Django to develop a movies review app and deploy it to the internet. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build and deploy your own Django web applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Adding a movie model to admin

To add the movie model to admin, go back to /movie/admin.py, and register our model with the following:

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Movie
admin.site.register(Movie)

When you save your file, go back to admin. The movie model will now show up (as shown in Figure 5.8):

Figure 5.8 – Admin page

Try adding a movie object by clicking on +Add. You will be brought to the Add movie form (as shown in Figure 5.9):

Figure 5.9 – Add movie page

Note that Url is not in bold, as we marked it as optional back in models.py, url = models.URLField(blank=True). The other required fields are in bold.

Try adding a movie and hit Save. Your movie object will be saved to the database and reflected in the admin page (as shown in Figure 5.10):

Figure 5.10 – Movies admin page

You can also see the movie image in /moviereviews/media/movie/images/&lt...