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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

Using django-localflavor to validate form fields

django-localflavor is a third-party module that contains a collection of utilities, such as form fields or model fields, that are specific for each country. It’s very useful for validating local regions, local phone numbers, identity card numbers, social security numbers, and so on. The package is organized into a series of modules named after ISO 3166 country codes. Follow these instructions to set it up:

Install django-localflavor using the following command:

python -m pip install django-localflavor==4.0

Edit the settings.py file of your project and add localflavor to the INSTALLED_APPS setting, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'localflavor',
]

You are going to add the United States zip code field so that a valid United States zip code is required to create a new order. Edit the forms.py file of the orders application and make it look like the following:

from django import forms...
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