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Django 5 for the Impatient

You're reading from   Django 5 for the Impatient Learn the core concepts of Django to develop Python web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835461556
Length 228 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Greg Lim Greg Lim
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Installing Python and Django, and Introducing the Movies Store Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Understanding the Project Structure and Creating Our First App 3. Chapter 3: Designing a Base Template 4. Chapter 4: Creating a Movies App with Dummy Data 5. Chapter 5: Working with Models 6. Chapter 6: Collecting and Displaying Data from the Database 7. Chapter 7: Understanding the Database 8. Chapter 8: Implementing User Signup and Login 9. Chapter 9: Letting Users Create, Read, Update, and Delete Movie Reviews 10. Chapter 10: Implementing a Shopping Cart System 11. Chapter 11: Implementing Order and Item Models 12. Chapter 12: Implementing the Purchase and Orders Pages 13. Chapter 13: Deploying the Application to the Cloud 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating our first model

A Django model is a Python class that represents a database table. Models are used to define the structure and behavior of the data that will be stored in the database. Each model class typically corresponds to a single database table, and each instance of the class represents a specific row in that table. More information about Django models can be found here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/db/models/.

We can create models such as Movie, Review, and Order, and Django turns these models into a database table for us.

Here are the Django model basics:

  • Each model is a class that extends django.db.models.Model
  • Each model attribute represents a database column
  • With all of this, Django provides us with a set of useful methods to create, update, read, and delete (CRUD) model information from a database

Creating a Movie model

Our first model will be a Movie. We can create models in each of the project apps. Movie seems...

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