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Django 2 by Example

Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 2 by Example

Django 2 by Example

4.3 (21)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django 2, then this book is for you. You will walk through the creation of four professional Django 2 projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. The book will teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and set up a production environment for your Django 2 projects. The book walks you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Django 2 and how to build advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Creating a comment system

Now, we will build a comment system for the blog, wherein the users will be able to comment on posts. To build the comment system, you will need to do the following steps:

  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 the 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

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...
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