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Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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User registration and user profiles

Site users can now log in, log out, change their password, and reset their password. However, we need to build a view to allow visitors to create a user account.

User registration

Let’s create a simple view to allow user registration on your website. Initially, you have to create a form to let the user enter a username, their real name, and a password.

Edit the forms.py file located inside the account application directory and add the following lines highlighted in bold:

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class LoginForm(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField()
    password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput)
class UserRegistrationForm(forms.ModelForm):
    password = forms.CharField(label='Password',
                               widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    password2 = forms.CharField(label='Repeat password',
                                widget=forms...
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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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