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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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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features FREE CHAPTER 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

Posting content from other websites

We will allow users to bookmark images from external websites and share them on our site. Users will provide the URL of the image, a title, and an optional description. We will create a form and a view to 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,
        }

We have defined a ModelForm form from the Image model, including only the title, url, and description fields. Users will not enter the image URL directly in the form. Instead, we will provide them with a JavaScript tool to choose an image from an...

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