Users will log into our blogging site using their email and password; so, before we begin building our actual login view, let's start with the LoginForm. This form will accept the username, password, and will also present a checkbox to indicate whether the site should remember me. Create a forms.py module in the app directory and add the following code:
import wtforms
from wtforms import validators
from models import User
class LoginForm(wtforms.Form):
email = wtforms.StringField("Email",
validators=[validators.DataRequired()])
password = wtforms.PasswordField("Password",
validators=[validators.DataRequired()])
remember_me = wtforms.BooleanField("Remember me?",
default=True)Tip
Note that WTForms also provides an e-mail validator. However, as the documentation for this validator tells us, it is very primitive and may not capture all edge cases as full e-mail validation is actually extremely difficult.
In order to validate the user's...