Django 2 by Example

Creating a comment system

Now, we will build a comment system for the blog, wherein the users will be able to comment on posts. To build the comment system, you will need to do the following steps:

1. Create a model to save comments
2. Create a form to submit comments and validate the input data
3. Add a view that processes the form and saves the new comment to the database
4. Edit the post detail template to display the list of comments and the form to add a new comment

First, let's build a model to store comments. Open the models.py file of your blog application and add the following code:

class Comment(models.Model):     post = models.ForeignKey(Post,                             on_delete=models.CASCADE,                             related_name='comments')    name = models.CharField(max_length=80)  email = ...