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Python Programming Blueprints
book

Python Programming Blueprints

by Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding login and logout views

Every online store needs some sort of user management. Our application's users should be able to create an account, change their account details, obviously log in to our application so they can place orders, and also log out from the application.

We are going to start adding the login and logout functionality. The good news is that it is super easy to implement in Django.

First, we need to add a Django form to our login page. Django has a built-in form of authentication; however, we want to customize it, so we are going to create another class that inherits from the Django built-in AuthenticationForm and add our changes.

Create a file called forms.py in gamestore/main/ with the following content:

from django ...
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