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Django 5 By Example

You're reading from   Django 5 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125457
Length 820 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Creating an image bookmarking website

We will now learn how to allow users to bookmark images that they find on other websites and share them on our site. To build this functionality, we will need the following elements:

  1. A data model to store images and related information
  2. A form and a view to handle image uploads
  3. JavaScript bookmarklet code that can be executed on any website. This code will find images across the page and allow users to select the image they want to bookmark

First, create a new application inside your bookmarks project directory by running the following command in the shell prompt:

django-admin startapp images

Add the new application to the INSTALLED_APPS setting in the settings.py file of the project, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'images.apps.ImagesConfig',
]

We have activated the images application in the project.

Building the image model

Edit the models.py file of the images application and add the following code to it:

from django...
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