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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

Adding student registration

Create a new application using the following command:

python manage.py startapp students

Edit the settings.py file of the educa project and add the new application to the INSTALLED_APPS setting, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'students.apps.StudentsConfig',
]

Creating a student registration view

Edit the views.py file of the students application and write the following code:

from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login
class StudentRegistrationView(CreateView):
    template_name = 'students/student/registration.html'
    form_class = UserCreationForm
    success_url = reverse_lazy('student_course_list')
    def form_valid(self, form):
        result = super().form_valid(form)
        cd = form.cleaned_data
        user = authenticate(username...
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