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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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User registration and user profiles

Existing users can now log in, log out, change their password, and reset their password. Now, you will need to build a view to allow visitors to create a user account.

User registration

Let's create a simple view to allow user registration on your website. Initially, you have to create a form to let the user enter a username, their real name, and a password.

Edit the forms.py file located inside the account application directory and add the following code to it:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class UserRegistrationForm(forms.ModelForm):
    password = forms.CharField(label='Password',
                               widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    password2 = forms.CharField(label='Repeat password',
                                widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'email')
    def clean_password2...