Django 5 for the Impatient: Learn the core concepts of Django to develop Python web applications, 2nd Edition

Django 5 for the Impatient
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Preface
	Who this book is for
	What this book covers
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Chapter 1: Installing Python and Django, and Introducing the Movies Store Application
	Technical requirements
	Introducing and installing Python
	Introducing and installing Django
	Creating and running a Django project
	Understanding the Movies Store application
	Introducing the Django MVT architecture
	Summary
Chapter 2: Understanding the Project Structure and Creating Our First App
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the project structure
		The moviesstore folder
		manage.py
		db.sqlite3
	Creating our first app
	Creating a home page
		Configuring an URL
	Creating an about page
		Configuring the about URL
		Defining about function
		Creating about template
	Summary
Chapter 3: Designing a Base Template
	Technical requirements
	Creating a base template with Bootstrap
		Introducing Bootstrap
		Introducing Django template language (DTL)
		Creating a base template
		Registering the base template
	Updating the home page to use the base template
		Creating the new index template
		Creating a custom CSS file
		Storing an image
		Serving the static files
		Updating the base template to use the custom CSS and load static files
		Updating the views index function
	Updating the About page to use the base template
		Creating the new About template
		Storing the about.jpg image
		Updating the views about function
	Adding a header section
		Updating the base template
		Storing the logo image
		Updating the style.css
	Adding a footer section
		Updating the base template
		Updating the style.css
	Summary
Chapter 4: Creating a Movies App with Dummy Data
	Technical requirements
	Creating the movies app
		Creating the movies app
		Adding the movies app to settings
		Including the movies URL file in the project-level URL file
	Listing movies with dummy data
		Configuring the movies URL
		Defining the views index function
		Creating a movies index template
	Listing individual movies
		Configuring individual movies URLs
		Defining the views show function
		Creating a movies show template
		Adding individual movie links on the movies page
	Adding a link in the base template
	Summary
Chapter 5: Working with Models
	Technical requirements
	Creating our first model
		Creating a Movie model
	Installing Pillow
	Managing migrations
		Applying the default migrations
		Creating custom migrations
		Applying custom migrations
	Accessing the Django admin interface
		Creating a superuser
		Restoring your superuser password
		Accessing the admin panel
	Configuring image upload
	Serving the stored images
	Adding a movie model to the admin panel
		Adding the Movie model to the admin panel
	Summary
Chapter 6: Collecting and Displaying Data from the Database
	Technical requirements
	Removing the movies’ dummy data
	Updating the movie listings page
		Updating index function
		Updating the movies.index template
		Adding a custom CSS class
	Updating the listing of an individual movie page
		Updating show function
		Updating the movies.show template
		Adding a custom CSS class
	Implementing a search movie functionality
		Updating the movies.index template
		Updating index function
	Summary
Chapter 7: Understanding the Database
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the database viewer
	Customizing the Django admin panel
		Ordering movies by name
		Allowing searches by name
	Switching to a MySQL database
		Configuring the MySQL database
		Configuring our project to use the MySQL database
		Running the migrations
	Summary
Chapter 8: Implementing User Signup and Login
	Technical requirements
	Creating an accounts app
		Creating an accounts app
		Adding the accounts app to the settings file
		Including the accounts URL file in the project-level URL file
	Creating a basic signup page
		Configuring a signup URL
		Defining the signup function
		Creating accounts signup template
		Adding the signup link to the base template
	Improving the signup page to handle POST actions
	Customizing UserCreationForm
		Creating CustomUserCreationForm
		Updating the signup function to use CustomUserCreationForm
		Customizing the way errors are displayed
	Creating a login page
		Configuring a login URL
		Defining login function
		Creating accounts login template
		Adding the link to the base template
		Redirecting a registered user to the login page
	Implementing a logout functionality
		Configuring a logout URL
		Defining the logout function
		Adding the link to the base template
	Summary
Chapter 9: Letting Users Create, Read, Update, and Delete Movie Reviews
	Technical requirements
	Creating a review model
		Create the review model
		Apply migrations
		Add the review model to the admin panel
	Creating reviews
		Updating the movies.show template
		Defining the create_review function
		Configuring the create review URL
	Reading reviews
		Updating the movies.show template
		Updating the show function
	Updating a review
		Updating movies.show template
		Creating the movies edit_review template
		Defining the edit_review function
		Configuring the edit_review URL
	Deleting a review
		Updating the movies.show template
		Defining the delete_review function
		Configuring the delete_review URL
	Summary
Chapter 10: Implementing a Shopping Cart System
	Technical requirements
	Introducing web sessions
		HTTP protocol limitations
		Web sessions
		Django login scenario
		Django sessions
	Creating a cart app
		Adding cart app in settings
		Including the cart URL file in the project-level URL file
	Adding movies to the cart
		Configuring the add_to_cart URL
		Defining add_to_cart function
		Updating the movies.show template
	Listing movies added to the cart
		Configuring cart index URL
		Defining a utils file
		Defining a filter
		Defining an index function
		Creating the cart.index template
		Updating the add_to_cart function
		Adding a link in the base template
	Removing movies from the cart
		Configuring clear URL
		Defining clear function
		Updating the cart.index template
	Summary
Chapter 11: Implementing Order and Item Models
	Technical requirements
	Analyzing store invoices
	Creating the order model
		Creating the Order model
		Applying migrations
		Adding the order model to the admin panel
	Creating the Item model
		Creating the Item model
		Applying migrations
		Adding the item model to the admin panel
	Recapping the Movies Store class diagram
	Summary
Chapter 12: Implementing the Purchase and Orders Pages
	Technical requirements
	Creating the purchase page
		Configuring the purchase URL
		Defining the purchase function
		Updating cart.index template
		Creating cart.purchase template
	Creating the orders page
		Configuring the orders URL
		Defining the orders function
		Creating accounts.orders template
		Adding a link in the base template
	Recapping the Movies Store MVT architecture
	Summary
Chapter 13: Deploying the Application to the Cloud
	Technical requirements
	Managing GitHub and Git
		Understanding Git and GitHub
		Creating a GitHub repository
		Uploading our code to GitHub
	Cloning your code onto PythonAnywhere
	Configuring virtual environments
	Setting up your web app
	Configuring static files
	Summary
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