How does Django admin work?

One of the most powerful parts of Django is the automatic admin interface. It reads metadata from your models to provide a quick, model-centric interface where trusted users can manage content on your site . The admin’s recommended use is limited to an organization’s internal management tool.

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Is it OK not to use Django forms?

forms?” Because really, if you are not using django . forms you throw away a lot of django’s built-in security measures. Even within django itself (for instance the admin site) forms are used heavily. … If you are building an API you might want to look at how tastypie or django rest framework go about validation data.

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What is {{ form AS_P }}?

as_p simply wraps all the elements in HTML <p> tags . The advantage is not having to write a loop in the template to explicitly add HTML to surround each title and field. There is also form. as_table and form. as_ul to also help set the form within the HTML context you wish.

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