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Django 1.0 Website Development

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Django 1.0 Website Development

Overview of this book

Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code. This book will show you how to assemble Django's features and take advantage of its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured web site. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code examples. Specially revised for version 1.0 of Django, the book starts by introducing the main design concepts in Django. Next, it leads you through the process of installing Django on your system. After that, you will start right away on building your social bookmarking application using Django. Various Django 1.0 components and sub-frameworks will be explained during this process, and you will learn about them by example. In each chapter, you will build one or more of the features that are essential in Web 2.0 applications, like user management, tags, and AJAX. You will also learn about good software development practices, such as keeping your application secure, and automating testing with unit tests. By the end of the book, you will have built a fully functional real-life Web 2.0 application, and learned how to deploy it to a production server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Django 1.0 Web Site Development
Credits
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface

Creating the bookmark submission form


Now that we can store the tag data along with other bookmark information, we are ready to create a form for submitting bookmarks to the database. This form will let users specify the bookmark's URL, title, and tags. The process of creating this form is very similar to that of the registration form we created in Chapter 4. In fact, the method explained here can be used to create any HTML form that saves information into the database.

The first step in building our form is defining a class for it. So open the bookmarks/forms.py file and add the following class to it:

class BookmarkSaveForm(forms.Form):
  url = forms.URLField(
    label=u'URL',
    widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': 64})
  )
  title = forms.CharField(
    label=u'Title',
    widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': 64})
  )
  tags = forms.CharField(
    label=u'Tags',
    required=False,
    widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': 64})
  )

This code should look familiar to you. For each field...