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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

Creating an online shop project

Let’s start with a new Django project to build an online shop. Your users will be able to browse through a product catalog and add products to a shopping cart. Finally, they will be able to check out the cart and place an order. This chapter will cover the following functionalities of an online shop:

  • Creating the product catalog models, adding them to the administration site, and building the basic views to display the catalog
  • Building a shopping cart system using Django sessions to allow users to keep selected products while they browse the site
  • Creating the form and functionality to place orders on the site
  • Sending an asynchronous email confirmation to users when they place an order

Open a shell and use the following command to create a new virtual environment for this project within the env/ directory:

python -m venv env/myshop

If you are using Linux or macOS, run the following command to activate...

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