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In this article we are going to learn how to implement simple captch in django forms and render it to django templates. Let's implement to our form and make i more secure.
Install Dependencies
We need to install the `django-simple-captcha` dependencies first, by hitting this commdand in terminal:
Next, add captcha to the INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py.
- INSTALLED_APPS = [
- ...
- 'captcha'
- ...
- ]
Run `migrate` command
Next, just add this path in urls.py file of the root project
- from django.urls import path
- urlpatterns = [
- path("captcha/", include("captcha.urls") ),
- ]
Implement captcha in django form
Next, using a CaptchaField to define a captcha field:
To embed a CAPTCHA in your forms, simply add a CaptchaField to the form definition:
- from django import forms
- from captcha.fields import CaptchaField
- class StudentForm(forms.Form):
- name = forms.CharField()
- captcha = CaptchaField()
Render in template
Next, let's render the form to templates from view function.
Create view function and pass the form to context.
- from captcha.shortcut import render
- from .forms import StudentForm
- def student(request):
- student_form = StudentForm()
- return render(request, "student.html", {"student_form": student_form})
Next, simply use the form in templates file.
- <html>
- </head>
- <title> Student form <title>
- </head>
- </body>
- </div>
- {{student_form}}
- </div>
- </body>
- </html>
Conclusion
This is how we can use django-simple-capctha package to add the captch in our django sites to make our django form more secure.