Transcript Deploying a Django Website Now that we have completed the development of our website, it’s time for the exciting part—deploying the code to a web server. Deploying a website can often be a complex and frustrating process, however, this is another area where Django makes the process of deploying a website easier. Django will …
Transcript User Management Most modern websites allow some form of user interaction. Common examples include comments on blog posts, allowing users to customize the information they see, editorial control over content and e-commerce. To make user management easier, Django comes with a user authentication and authorization system built in. With Django, you can both create …
Transcript Django’s Generic Views At the fundamental level, a view is a piece of code that accepts a request and returns a response. While all the views we have created so far have been function-based views, Django also has class-based views. When Django was first created, there were only function-based views included with Django. As …
Transcript Building a More Complex Form The contact form we built in the last module is a common, but very simple use of a website form. Another common use for forms is to collect information from the user and save that information in the database. Examples include entering your personal information for a membership application, …
Transcript Forms Overview HTML forms are a core component of modern websites. From Google’s simple search box to large, multi-page submissions, HTML forms are the primary means of collecting information from website visitors and users.The code for a basic HTML form is quite simple. Let’s practice by creating a form that collects a user’s first …
In this chapter, we’ll dig much deeper into Django’s models and comprehensively explore the essentials. In the first section of the chapter, we’ll explore the common data management functions built into Django. We’ll cover common model methods that return QuerySets (and those that don’t), model field lookups, aggregate functions, and building complex queries. In later …
HTML forms are a core component of modern websites. From Google’s simple search box to large, multi-page submissions, HTML forms are the primary means of collecting information from website visitors and users. The code for a basic HTML form is simple, for example: The <form></form> HTML tags define the form element, and each of the …
A web-based administrative back end is a standard feature of modern websites. The administrative interface, or admin for short, allows trusted site administrators to create, edit and publish content, manage site users, and perform other administrative tasks. Django comes with a built-in admin interface. With Django’s admin you can authenticate users, display and handle forms, …
In Chapter 5, we created a view to show a simple title and calendar in the browser. This is a long way from a fully functioning modern website—for one, we are missing a site template. Site templates, at their most basic, are HTML files displayed by your browser. All websites—from simple, static websites to interactive …
Django’s views are the information brokers of a Django application. A view sources data from your database (or an external data source or service) and delivers it to a template. For a web application, the view delivers web page content and templates; for a RESTful API this content could be formatted JSON data. The view …
