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Python Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   Python Programming Blueprints Build nine projects by leveraging powerful frameworks such as Flask, Nameko, and Django

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468161
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcus Pennington Marcus Pennington
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Pierluigi Riti Pierluigi Riti
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Daniel Furtado Daniel Furtado
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Preface 1. Implementing the Weather Application 2. Creating a Remote-Control Application with Spotify FREE CHAPTER 3. Casting Votes on Twitter 4. Exchange Rates and the Currency Conversion Tool 5. Building a Web Messenger with Microservices 6. Extending TempMessenger with a User Authentication Microservice 7. Online Video Game Store with Django 8. Order Microservice 9. Notification Serverless Application 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding login and logout views


Every online store needs some sort of user management. Our application's users should be able to create an account, change their account details, obviously log in to our application so they can place orders, and also log out from the application.

We are going to start adding the login and logout functionality. The good news is that it is super easy to implement in Django.

First, we need to add a Django form to our login page. Django has a built-in form of authentication; however, we want to customize it, so we are going to create another class that inherits from the Django built-in AuthenticationForm and add our changes.

Create a file called forms.py in gamestore/main/ with the following content:

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm


class AuthenticationForm(AuthenticationForm):
    username = forms.CharField(
        max_length=50,
        widget=forms.TextInput({
            'class': 'form-control',
            'placeholder...
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