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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813051
Pages 766 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
Profile icon Antonio Melé

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 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

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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