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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Python and Django, then this book is for you. In the process of building four professional Django projects, you will learn about Django 3 features, how to solve common web development problems, how to implement best practices, and how to successfully deploy your applications. In this book, you will build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Step-by-step guidance will teach you how to integrate popular technologies, enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. By the end of this book, you will have mastered Django 3 by building advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Creating a comment system

You will build a comment system wherein users will be able to comment on posts. To build the comment system, you need to do the following:

  1. Create a model to save comments
  2. Create a form to submit comments and validate the input data
  3. Add a view that processes the form and saves a new comment to the database
  4. Edit the post detail template to display the list of comments and the form to add a new comment

Building a model

First, let's build a model to store comments. Open the models.py file of your blog application and add the following code:

class Comment(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post,
                             on_delete=models.CASCADE,
                             related_name='comments')
    name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
    email = models.EmailField()
    body = models.TextField()
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated = models.DateTimeField...