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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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Index

Posting content from other websites

You will allow users to bookmark images from external websites. The user will provide the URL of the image, a title, and an optional description. Your application will download the image and create a new Image object in the database.

Let's start by building a form to submit new images. Create a new forms.py file inside the Images application directory and add the following code to it:

from django import forms
from .models import Image
class ImageCreateForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Image
        fields = ('title', 'url', 'description')
        widgets = {
            'url': forms.HiddenInput,
        }

As you will notice in the preceding code, this form is a ModelForm form built from the Image model, including only the title, url, and description fields. Users will not enter the image URL directly in the form. Instead, you will provide them with a JavaScript...