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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Recommending posts by email

We will allow users to share blog posts with others by sending post recommendations via email. You will learn how to create forms in Django, handle data submission, and send emails with Django, enhancing your blog with a personal touch.

Take a minute to think about how you could use views, URLs, and templates to create this functionality using what you learned in the preceding chapter.

To allow users to share posts via email, we will need to:

  1. Create a form for users to fill in their name, their email address, the recipient’s email address, and optional comments
  2. Create a view in the views.py file that handles the posted data and sends the email
  3. Add a URL pattern for the new view in the urls.py file of the blog application
  4. Create a template to display the form

Creating forms with Django

Let’s start by building the form to share posts. Django has a built-in forms framework that allows you to create...

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Django 5 By Example - Fifth Edition
Published in: Apr 2024
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781805125457
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