Django 2 by Example

Posting content from other websites

We will allow users to bookmark images from external websites. The user will provide the URL of the image, a title, and optional description. Our application will download the image and create a new Image object in the database.

Let's start by building a form to submit new images. Create a new forms.py file inside the Images application directory and add the following code to it:

from django import formsfrom .models import Imageclass ImageCreateForm(forms.ModelForm):    class Meta:        model = Image        fields = ('title', 'url', 'description')        widgets = {            'url': forms.HiddenInput,        }

As you would notice in this preceding code, this form is a ModelForm form built from the Image model, including only the title, url