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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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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

Exporting orders to CSV files

Sometimes, you might want to export the information contained in a model to a file so that you can import it into another system. One of the most widely used formats to export/import data is Comma-Separated Values (CSV). A CSV file is a plain text file consisting of a number of records. There is usually one record per line and some delimiter character, usually a literal comma, separating the record fields. We are going to customize the administration site to be able to export orders to CSV files.

Adding custom actions to the administration site

Django offers a wide range of options to customize the administration site. You are going to modify the object list view to include a custom administration action. You can implement custom administration actions to allow staff users to apply actions to multiple elements at once in the change list view.

An administration action works as follows: a user selects objects from the administration object list...