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Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
Book Image

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)

Creating a detail view for images

We will now create a simple detail view to display an image that has been saved into our site. Open the views.py file of the images application and add the following code to it:

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from .models import Image

def image_detail(request, id, slug):
image = get_object_or_404(Image, id=id, slug=slug)
return render(request,
'images/image/detail.html',
{'section': 'images',
'image': image})

This is a simple view to display an image. Edit the urls.py file of the images application and add the following URL pattern:

path('detail/<int:id>/<slug:slug>/',
views.image_detail, name='detail'),

Edit the models.py file of the images application and add the get_absolute_url() method to...