Listing movies

Let's improve our app. We will display the movie objects stored in the admin database. In movie/views.py, add the following in bold:

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from .models import Movie
def home(request):
    searchTerm = request.GET.get('searchMovie')
    movies = Movie.objects.all()
    return render(request, 'home.html',
      {'searchTerm':searchTerm, 'movies': movies})
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Let's look at what's happening in the code. We first import the Movie model:

from .models import Movie

Then, the previous code grabs all the movie objects from the database (using the all method) and assigns them to movies:

movies = Movie.objects.all()

We then pass movies in the dictionary to home.html.

Django makes it really straightforward to access objects in the database. If we have to write code to connect to the database, write SQL statements...