Python Programming Blueprints

Adding items to the cart

We are getting close to finishing up the shopping cart. Now we are going to implement a view that will include items in the cart.

The first thing we need to do is create a new URL. Open the file url.py in the directory gamestore/main/, and add this URL to the urlpatterns list:

   path(r'cart/add/<int:game_id>/', views.add_to_cart),

Perfect. In this URL, we can pass the game ID, and it will execute a view called add_to_cart. Let's add this new view. Open the file views.py in gamestore/main. First, we add import statements, shown as follows:

from decimal import Decimalfrom django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404from django.contrib import messagesfrom django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

Now, we need ...