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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 2 Web Development Cookbook 100 practical recipes on building scalable Python web apps with Django 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837682
Length 544 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Aidas Bendoraitis Aidas Bendoraitis
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Jake Kronika Jake Kronika
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 2.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Structure and Modeling 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Customizing Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Django CMS 9. Hierarchical Structures 10. Importing and Exporting Data 11. Bells and Whistles 12. Testing and Deployment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Utilizing the save method of the form

To make your views clean and simple, it is good practice to move the handling of the form data to the form itself whenever this is possible and makes sense. The common practice is to have a save() method that will save the data, perform search, or do some other smart actions. We will extend the form that is defined in the previous recipe with the save() method, which will send an email to the selected recipient.

Getting ready

We will build upon the example that is defined in the Passing HttpRequest to the form recipe.

How to do it...

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