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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.8 (4)
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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Using django-localflavor to validate form fields

django-localflavor is a third-party module that contains a collection of utilities, such as form fields or model fields, that are specific for each country. It’s very useful for validating local regions, local phone numbers, identity card numbers, social security numbers, and so on. The package is organized into a series of modules named after ISO 3166 country codes.

Install django-localflavor using the following command:

pip install django-localflavor==3.1

Edit the settings.py file of your project and add localflavor to the INSTALLED_APPS setting, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'localflavor',
]

You are going to add the United States zip code field so that a valid United States zip code is required to create a new order.

Edit the forms.py file of the orders application and make it look like the following:

from django import forms
from localflavor.us.forms import USZipCodeField...