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Slide 1 [00:08 | 00:08]
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Title Slide
**Creating Forms to edit the Blog**
Slide 2 [00:12 | 00:20]
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**Learning Objectives**
In this tutorial, we will learn to;
- Create a new form
- Create a new view to handle form submission
Slide 3 [00:11 | 00:31]
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**System Requirements**
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Python 3.5 or higher version
- python3.4-venv
Slide 4:
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**What is a Form?**
- In HTML, a form is a collection of elements inside <form>...</form>
- Allow a visitor to do things like;
- enter text
- select options
- manipulate objects or controls, and so on,
- Send information back to the server
Slide 5
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**Django Forms**
- Django provides inbuilt libraries to help you build forms easily
Slide 6
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**What is POST Request**
- A form is what the user sees when the application is storing new *or* updating/deleting existing data on a server,
- In the backend this storage, updation or deletion is done using a POST request
- A POST request method requests that a web server accept the data enclosed in the body of the request message
Slide 7
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**Creating a New Form for Blogs**
- Create a forms.py in the ```blog``` and add the code
class BlogForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Blog
fields = ['name', 'created_on']
class ArticleForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Article
fields = ['created_on', 'title', 'body', 'draft']
Slide 8
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**Adding a new view to handle the form**
Slide 7
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**Creating an HTML Form**
Slide 8
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**Creating a Template for the view**
Slide 9
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**Testing the new view and form**
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