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Django 5 By Example - Fifth Edition

You're reading from   Django 5 By Example - Fifth Edition Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125457
Pages 820 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social 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

Modifying the views

Now we have to change the parameters of the post_detail view to match the new URL parameters and use them to retrieve the corresponding Post object.

Edit the views.py file and edit the post_detail view like this:

def post_detail(request, year, month, day, post):
    post = get_object_or_404(Post,
                             status=Post.Status.PUBLISHED,
                             slug=post,
                             publish__year=year,
                             publish__month=month,
                             publish__day=day)
    return render(request,
                  'blog/post/detail.html',
                  {'post': post})

We have modified the post_detail view to take the year, month, day, and post arguments and retrieve a published post with the given slug and publication date. By adding unique_for_date='publish' to the slug field of the Post model before, we ensured that there will be only one post with a slug for...

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