Django Forms Course

Forms

Basic Forms in Django are handy for data validation and non-model-based data entry. They automatically create their own HTML and do some serious validation.

• What are Forms in Django?

  1:58

• Creating a Form

  4:04

• Create a Simple Form

  4 objectives

• Showing a Form in a View

  8:18

• Instantiate a Form in a View

  3 objectives

• Handling a Form in a View

  10:10

• Validate a Form in a View

  2 objectives

• Custom Field Validation

  7:16

• Clean a Field

  2 objectives

• Using and Creating Validators

  3:38

• Create a Validator

  2 objectives

• Cleaning a Whole Form

  4:28

• Clean Two Fields

  1 objective

More on Models

To create our quizzes, we're going to need a few more models. And since a few of them share a lot of information and functionality, let's look into inheritance with multiple tables and abstract models.

• Abstract Inheritance

  7:13

• Review: Models

  5 questions

• Quiz Model

  10:10

• Abstract Model

  2 objectives

• Question and Answer Models

  6:28

• Multiple Choice and True/False Questions

  3:53

• Multi-table Inheritance

  2 objectives

Model Forms

Quite often, we just want a form that represents a model in our app. Django gives us a great way to handle that scenario with Model Forms.

• What are Model Forms?

  6:30

• Create a Model Form

  1 objective

• Using a Model Form

  10:22

• Edit an Instance

  9:48

• Display a Blank Model Form

  2 objectives

• Handling Multiple Form Classes

  11:12

• Editing Questions

  11:54

• Save a Model Form

  1 objective

• Model Form for Answer

  10:04

• Review: Model Forms

  5 questions

Inlines and Media

Now that we have basic and model forms down, let's see how to use multiple forms, inline forms, and provide some special media to our forms.

• Formsets

  9:23

• Create a Formset

  2 objectives

• Save a Valid Formset

  1 objective

• Inline Model Formset

  12:18

• Create an Inline Model Formset

  2 objectives

• Custom Form Media

  9:47

• Review: Django Forms

  8 questions

• Extra Credit

  Now that you have control of Django's forms, go back and build CMS-style views, forms, etc for the Text and Course models.