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Django 3 By Example

You're reading from   Django 3 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981952
Length 568 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Creating a CMS

Now that you have created a versatile data model, you are going to build the CMS. The CMS will allow instructors to create courses and manage their contents. You need to provide the following functionality:

  • Log in to the CMS
  • List the courses created by the instructor
  • Create, edit, and delete courses
  • Add modules to a course and reorder them
  • Add different types of content to each module and reorder them

Adding an authentication system

You are going to use Django's authentication framework in your platform. Both instructors and students will be instances of Django's User model, so they will be able to log in to the site using the authentication views of django.contrib.auth.

Edit the main urls.py file of the educa project and include the login and logout views of Django's authentication framework:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views...
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