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Python Django Tutorial: Full-Featured Web App Part 3 - Templates

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In this Python Django Tutorial, we will be learning how to use templates to return more complex HTML to the browser. We'll also see how we can pass variables to our templates as context. Let's get started... The code for this series can be found at: https://github.com/CoreyMSchafer/code_snippets/tree/master/Django_Blog Snippets: https://github.com/CoreyMSchafer/code_snippets/tree/master/Django_Blog/snippets Bootstrap Starter Template: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introduction/#starter-template ✅ Support My Channel Through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/coreyms ✅ Become a Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCezIgC97PvUuR4_gbFUs5g/join ✅ One-Time Contribution Through PayPal: https://goo.gl/649HFY ✅ Cryptocurrency Donations: Bitcoin Wallet - 3MPH8oY2EAgbLVy7RBMinwcBntggi7qeG3 Ethereum Wallet - 0x151649418616068fB46C3598083817101d3bCD33 Litecoin Wallet - MPvEBY5fxGkmPQgocfJbxP6EmTo5UUXMot ✅ Corey's Public Amazon Wishlist http://a.co/inIyro1 ✅ Equipment I Use and Books I Recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/coreyschafer ▶️ You Can Find Me On: My Website - http://coreyms.com/ My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/coreymschafer Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoreyMSchafer Twitter - https://twitter.com/CoreyMSchafer Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coreymschafer/ #Python #Django

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home template.", 'Configuring the blog application in the settings.py file The chapter explains the process of adding the blog application to the installed apps list in the settings.py file, ensuring Django can correctly search templates and models.', 'Using the render function in Django views The chapter discusses using the render function in Django views to point to the home.html template for rendering, providing a convenient shortcut for rendering templates and passing context data.']}, {'end': 593.622, 'start': 433.435, 'title': 'Django views and templates', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of creating and rendering templates in django views, updating the about page template and view, and testing the functionality of the templates.', 'duration': 160.187, 'highlights': ['The views in Django need to return either an HTTP response or an exception.', 'Rendering templates in Django views involves copying the structure from one template to another and updating the view to render the new 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So let's open back up our application and add some dummy data so that we can see how this is done.", 'start': 619.5, 'duration': 7.742}, {'end': 634.044, 'text': "So I'm going to add this dummy data into our blog views, and then we'll see how to pass that into our templates.", 'start': 627.622, 'duration': 6.422}, {'end': 641.027, 'text': "and i'll just add this dummy data here to the top of our views file and we will just create some fake posts.", 'start': 634.484, 'duration': 6.543}, {'end': 649.83, 'text': "so i'll call this post and this is going to be a list, and this list is going to be a list of dictionaries,", 'start': 641.027, 'duration': 8.803}, {'end': 654.012, 'text': 'and each dictionary will be information associated with one post.', 'start': 649.83, 'duration': 4.182}], 'summary': 'Adding dummy data to display posts in templates.', 'duration': 44.734, 'max_score': 609.278, 'thumbnail': 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data into a dictionary.", 'start': 732.554, 'duration': 2.582}, {'end': 746.5, 'text': "So, within our home page view here, let's create a dictionary and we'll call this dictionary context and I will set that equal to a dictionary.", 'start': 735.496, 'duration': 11.004}, {'end': 753.042, 'text': "and now, within this context dictionary, I'm going to create a key, and that key is going to be called post,", 'start': 746.5, 'duration': 6.542}], 'summary': 'Creating a blog homepage with a second post by jane doe posted on august 28th.', 'duration': 47.804, 'max_score': 705.238, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX4705238.jpg'}, {'end': 825.788, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 797.695, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 801.637, 'text': 'which is a list of dictionaries containing information of each post.', 'start': 797.695, 'duration': 3.942}, {'end': 807.141, 'text': "so now let's switch over to our home.html template so we can see how to use this.", 'start': 801.637, 'duration': 5.504}, {'end': 811.623, 'text': 'and now, in our home template, We need to loop through those posts in order to display them on our homepage.', 'start': 807.141, 'duration': 4.482}, {'end': 817.705, 'text': 'So the templating engine that Django uses is very similar to Jinja 2, if any of you have used that.', 'start': 811.943, 'duration': 5.762}, {'end': 822.247, 'text': 'And the templating engine allows us to write code here within our templates.', 'start': 818.205, 'duration': 4.042}, {'end': 825.788, 'text': 'So to write a for loop, we can open up a code block.', 'start': 822.647, 'duration': 3.141}], 'summary': 'Using django templating to loop through and display posts on homepage.', 'duration': 28.093, 'max_score': 797.695, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX4797695.jpg'}, {'end': 879.493, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 853.965, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 858.526, 'text': "So it's kind of similar to writing Python in our templates, but it's not exactly the same,", 'start': 853.965, 'duration': 4.561}, {'end': 862.627, 'text': 'because we have to tell our template whenever certain loops end.', 'start': 858.526, 'duration': 4.101}, {'end': 866.087, 'text': 'So for each if statement, you have to have an end if.', 'start': 862.767, 'duration': 3.32}, {'end': 869.008, 'text': 'For for loops, you have to have end for and so on.', 'start': 866.327, 'duration': 2.681}, {'end': 874.669, 'text': 'So now within this for loop, now we can print out our post information one post at a time.', 'start': 869.428, 'duration': 5.241}, {'end': 879.493, 'text': 'So we can say, I will just have an H1 here for the post title.', 'start': 875.109, 'duration': 4.384}], 'summary': 'Explaining differences in template writing with python, emphasizing the need for specific end statements for loops and if statements.', 'duration': 25.528, 'max_score': 853.965, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX4853965.jpg'}, {'end': 935.736, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 902.991, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 904.452, 'text': "And that's how we actually get the title.", 'start': 902.991, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 908.575, 'text': "So it's not like Python where we would do a dot get or something like that.", 'start': 904.572, 'duration': 4.003}, {'end': 910.036, 'text': 'We can just say post dot title.', 'start': 908.615, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 913.959, 'text': 'And again, to access a variable, we use these double curly braces.', 'start': 910.596, 'duration': 3.363}, {'end': 921.725, 'text': 'And to do more logic, like if statements in for loops, we use this kind of code block here, which is curly braces and percent signs.', 'start': 914.459, 'duration': 7.266}, {'end': 926.069, 'text': "And if this confuses you for now, then you're definitely going to be able to get this by the end of 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[{'end': 726.492, 'start': 594.002, 'title': 'Displaying posts in templates', 'summary': 'Discusses adding dummy data for blog posts in an application and demonstrates how to display these posts in templates, using examples of author names, post titles, content, and posting dates to illustrate the process.', 'duration': 132.49, 'highlights': ['The chapter demonstrates adding dummy data for blog posts in an application, including author names, post titles, content, and posting dates.', 'It illustrates the process of displaying these posts in templates, using examples of author names, post titles, content, and posting dates.', 'The data includes examples of two dummy posts, with details such as author names (e.g., Corey MS, Jane Doe), post titles (e.g., blog post one, blog post two), content, and posting dates (e.g., August 27th, 2018, August 28th).']}, {'end': 988.786, 'start': 726.872, 'title': 'Passing data to template and using templating engine', 'summary': 'Explains how to pass 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display post information, including title, author, date, and content, using the passed data.', 'The templating engine in Django is similar to Jinja 2 and allows writing code within templates, including for loops and if statements, to manipulate and display data.', 'It illustrates the process of displaying these posts in templates, using examples of author names, post titles, content, and posting dates.', 'Covers adding dummy data for blog posts and how to display them in templates. it also explains passing data into a dictionary, accessing it within a template, and utilizing the templating engine to display post information.']}, {'end': 1571.265, 'segs': [{'end': 1060.657, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1012.161, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1015.482, 'text': "now let's go over that one more time, just so it's 100 clear.", 'start': 1012.161, 'duration': 3.321}, {'end': 1018.003, 'text': 'so just a quick recap.', 'start': 1015.482, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 1028.047, 'text': 'in our 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'And to do an if else statement, we can put in our curly braces with percent signs here and say if.', 'start': 1106.315, 'duration': 7.662}], 'summary': 'Demonstrated usage of if-else conditionals for handling web page titles.', 'duration': 28.527, 'max_score': 1085.45, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX41085450.jpg'}, {'end': 1235.94, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 1177.744, 'weight': 0.83, 'content': [{'end': 1184.191, 'text': "And now let's go back to our views and give one of our views a title and not provide one for the other.", 'start': 1177.744, 'duration': 6.447}, {'end': 1188.776, 'text': "So let's not pass in a title for our home page and just let that use the default.", 'start': 1184.491, 'duration': 4.285}, {'end': 1192.26, 'text': "But for our about page, let's pass in a title of about.", 'start': 1189.096, 'duration': 3.164}, {'end': 1197.145, 'text': "Now we don't actually have to create the context by itself here.", 'start': 1193.041, 'duration': 4.104}, {'end': 1202.95, 'text': "If it's short enough, then we can just simply pass in a dictionary directly in as this argument.", 'start': 1197.605, 'duration': 5.345}, {'end': 1209.457, 'text': 'So we can just say title and then the value for that title will say about and save that.', 'start': 1203.291, 'duration': 6.166}, {'end': 1215.243, 'text': 'So now, with that saved, if we reload our browser now, this might be a little small for you to see,', 'start': 1209.777, 'duration': 5.466}, {'end': 1223.69, 'text': "but up here in the tab We have a title of Django blog, and that is because we didn't pass in a title and it uses the default from that conditional.", 'start': 1215.243, 'duration': 8.447}, {'end': 1232.738, 'text': "Now, if we go to the about page, so forward slash about now up here in the top, it's still, it's kind of small, but it says Django blog dash about.", 'start': 1224.031, 'duration': 8.707}, {'end': 1234.36, 'text': 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maintenance.']}], 'duration': 582.159, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX4989106.jpg', 'highlights': ['Implementing template inheritance to avoid repeated code The tutorial explains the concept of template inheritance, creating a base template with shared code and using blocks to override specific sections in child templates, reducing repeated code and making maintenance easier.', 'Demonstrating the reduction of code in templates for better design and easy maintenance The tutorial shows how by implementing template inheritance, the amount of code in both home and about templates is significantly reduced, resulting in better design and easier maintenance.', 'Accessing the data within the template using the context dictionary.', 'Looping over the posts in the home template and printing them out one by one.', 'Explaining if else statements to handle default title in web pages The speaker demonstrates using if else 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'Now the CSS and the JavaScript that this is using are all served from a content delivery network.', 'start': 1643.692, 'duration': 5.761}, {'end': 1653.695, 'text': "And basically that just means that there's nothing that we actually need to download.", 'start': 1649.873, 'duration': 3.822}], 'summary': 'Html document includes required meta tags, bootstrap css, and 3 javascript scripts served from a content delivery network.', 'duration': 28.889, 'max_score': 1624.806, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX41624806.jpg'}, {'end': 1796.086, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1770.524, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1774.968, 'text': 'And just with those couple of changes, we should now be able to use bootstrap specific CSS classes.', 'start': 1770.524, 'duration': 4.444}, {'end': 1784.996, 'text': "So to use one of those, I'm going to wrap our content in a div with the class of container, which will give the content some good 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1979.114, 'duration': 2.722}, {'end': 1984.318, 'text': "So this is the first snippet that I'm going to grab.", 'start': 1982.096, 'duration': 2.222}, {'end': 1990.423, 'text': "So let's copy all of this and then go back to our base.html template.", 'start': 1984.598, 'duration': 5.825}, {'end': 1996.767, 'text': 'And we are going to paste this to the very top of our body because this is a navigation bar.', 'start': 1990.623, 'duration': 6.144}, {'end': 2002.831, 'text': 'So I will paste that in and then fix the indentations there and save that.', 'start': 1997.107, 'duration': 5.724}, {'end': 2009.515, 'text': 'So what we added here is a navigation bar with some bootstrap css classes that will make this look nice,', 'start': 2003.111, 'duration': 6.404}, {'end': 2014.197, 'text': "and i'm also going to put in a new main section that contains our content block,", 'start': 2009.515, 'duration': 4.682}, {'end': 2019.64, 'text': 'and this snippet is in our snippets folder and it is called 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content,", 'start': 2054.297, 'duration': 5.824}, {'end': 2064.784, 'text': 'because our snippet that we just pasted in has block content listed right here.', 'start': 2060.121, 'duration': 4.663}, {'end': 2073.471, 'text': "okay, and i also have a few custom styles that aren't bootstrap specific, and those are going to be in a file called main.css.", 'start': 2064.784, 'duration': 8.687}, {'end': 2080.556, 'text': 'now, since this will be a css file in our actual project, we need to actually put it somewhere And in Django,', 'start': 2073.471, 'duration': 7.085}], 'summary': 'Remove old container div, add custom styles in main.css for django project.', 'duration': 26.259, 'max_score': 2054.297, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX42054297.jpg'}, {'end': 2329.355, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2303.304, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 2309.688, 'text': 'Sometimes in order to get it to load that stuff up, you just have to kill the web server and then reload.', 'start': 2303.304, 'duration': 6.384}, {'end': 2314.53, 'text': 'Sometimes you also have to reset your browser cache to get CSS changes and stuff like that.', 'start': 2309.968, 'duration': 4.562}, {'end': 2322.153, 'text': 'Now, if you ever want to do a hard refresh on your page and clear the cache, then on Mac, that is Command Shift R, and on Windows,', 'start': 2314.89, 'duration': 7.263}, {'end': 2324.113, 'text': 'I believe that is Control F5..', 'start': 2322.153, 'duration': 1.96}, {'end': 2329.355, 'text': "Okay, so this looks nice with the CSS snippets that we've added in, but there are a few more touches that I'd like to add.", 'start': 2324.374, 'duration': 4.981}], 'summary': 'Refreshing web pages may require killing web server, resetting browser cache, and using specific commands on mac and windows.', 'duration': 26.051, 'max_score': 2303.304, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX42303304.jpg'}], 'start': 1571.665, 'title': 'Integrating bootstrap and creating base template in django', 'summary': 'Covers the process of integrating bootstrap into a django website, resulting in improved styling and layout. it also explains creating a base html template with global styles, including navigation bar addition and css file inclusion, leading to a visually improved website.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1836.063, 'start': 1571.665, 'title': 'Implementing bootstrap in django', 'summary': 'Demonstrates the process of integrating bootstrap into a django website using template inheritance, explaining the benefits and the step-by-step implementation, resulting in improved styling and layout.', 'duration': 264.398, 'highlights': ['By leveraging template inheritance, the speaker demonstrates how to efficiently integrate Bootstrap into a Django website, eliminating the need to update every template individually, ensuring easier maintenance as the number of pages grows.', "The process involves adding required meta tags, linking to Bootstrap CSS, and including three JavaScript scripts before the closing body tag, enabling the adoption of Bootstrap-specific CSS classes, such as 'container' for improved padding and spacing.", "The implementation of Bootstrap results in noticeable improvements in styling and layout, as evidenced by the enhanced padding and margin changes observed on the website's homepage."]}, {'end': 2324.113, 'start': 1836.063, 'title': 'Creating base template and adding global styles', 'summary': 'Explains the creation of a base html template with a content block, adding a navigation bar and custom styles, and includes the process of including css files and resolving potential issues with the web server, resulting in a visually improved website.', 'duration': 488.05, 'highlights': ['The chapter explains the creation of a base HTML template with a content block. It describes the creation of a base template called base dot HTML, the main structure of the HTML, and the concept of content block override.', 'Adding a navigation bar and custom styles to the website. Details the addition of a navigation bar with bootstrap CSS classes and the inclusion of a new main section containing the content block, along with the creation and inclusion of a main.css file.', 'Process of including CSS files and resolving potential issues with the web server. Explains the creation of a static directory within the blog app, adding CSS files within the static directory, and resolving issues with the web server and browser cache to display the visual improvements.']}], 'duration': 752.448, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX41571665.jpg', 'highlights': ['By leveraging template inheritance, integrate Bootstrap into a Django website, ensuring easier maintenance.', 'Add required meta tags, link to Bootstrap CSS, and include JavaScript scripts for improved styling and layout.', "Bootstrap implementation results in noticeable improvements in padding and margin changes on the website's homepage.", 'Create a base HTML template with a content block, adding a navigation bar with Bootstrap CSS classes.', 'Include a new main section containing the content block and create/inclusion of a main.css file for custom styles.', 'Explain the process of including CSS files, resolving potential 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by replacing current HTML with the snippet within the for loop.']}, {'end': 2732.538, 'start': 2387.7, 'title': 'Improving website navigation with django url tag', 'summary': 'Explains how to improve website navigation by using django url tag, making the templates more flexible and easier to maintain, ensuring that the navigation links and routes work seamlessly, and the benefits of using parent templates, with upcoming content on logging into the admin page.', 'duration': 344.838, 'highlights': ['The chapter explains how to improve website navigation by using Django URL tag The chapter demonstrates the use of the Django URL tag to improve website navigation, making the templates more flexible and easier to maintain.', 'Ensuring that the navigation links and routes work seamlessly The use of the Django URL tag ensures that the navigation links and routes work seamlessly, even if the routes are changed in the future.', 'Making the templates more flexible and easier to maintain The use of the Django URL tag makes the templates more flexible and easier to maintain, as it eliminates the need to hard code routes in multiple locations.', 'Benefits of using parent templates, with upcoming content on logging into the admin page The chapter emphasizes the benefits of using parent templates and hints at upcoming content on logging into the admin page for backend data and GUI changes.']}], 'duration': 408.164, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/qDwdMDQ8oX4/pics/qDwdMDQ8oX42324374.jpg', 'highlights': ['Incorporating HTML and CSS snippets to visually split up blog posts for improved layout and user experience.', 'Utilizing the existing CSS styles to enhance the blog post layout.', 'Revising the home template by replacing current HTML with the snippet within the for loop.', 'The chapter explains how to improve website navigation by using Django URL tag.', 'Ensuring that the navigation links and routes work seamlessly.', 'Making the 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leveraging template inheritance, integrate Bootstrap into a Django website, ensuring easier maintenance', 'The process involves creating a context dictionary in the home page view to pass data to the template, which allows accessing the data within the template and using it for display', 'The tutorial demonstrates accessing data from the context dictionary within the template using the dot syntax, and the usage of double curly braces for accessing variables and performing logic', 'The chapter demonstrates adding dummy data for blog posts in an application, including author names, post titles, content, and posting dates']}