Important Info & Conclusion:

Django can be bit confusing, but it becomes lot easier to understand through coding and lot of practice.

In this book, we have successfully converted our Doggy Day Care Center project into a Django Web Application . I have covered the Home Page , Log In Page and the Contact Us page and would like to leave the Create a New profile page for you all to practice. Well, I can give three hints:

• The syntax for inserting new data into a model is:

model_name ( column1 = “ data ”, column2 = “ data ”, column3 = 123 ……… )

(stated in section 5.3)

• cleaned_data attribute is used to access values from a form input field.

(please refer to previous sections)

• As you may recall, we created few drop down lists with the help of <select> tag in createNewProfile.html (code present in chapter 2, section 2.3). To create a similar drop down list in Django form we should follow the steps below:

Step 1: Create a list of choices. This list is a collection of tuples and these tuple is made of key-value pairs .

Example:

STATE= [

('cal', 'California'),

('ny', 'New York'),

('tx', 'Texas'),

]

Step 2: Then we pass the list of choices into our Django form field for drop down menu.

Example:

state = forms.CharField(widget=forms. Select (choices=STATE))

• Select allows selecting any string value from a list of choices .

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