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Flask with multiple forms on a page posted using AJAX and returning a rendered form result

22 February 2020 Updated 22 February 2020 by Peter

While working on comments system for the first time I bounced into the problem of having multiple WTForms forms on a single page. On every page there also is the search form but this is not a POST form. It is doing a GET. The comments system uses two forms: Comment form Comment reply form The comment form is immediately below the content item, blog post or page, the comment reply form is initially ...
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A textarea with a character counter widget for Flask, WTForms and Bootstrap

15 February 2020 Updated 18 February 2020 by Peter

I hoped to tell you today that you could comment on the blog posts of this website now. That would have meant that I completed the first implementation of the comments system. Unfortunately I stumbled upon some problems, yes of course, I am a programmer, and one of them involved the TextAreaField. I just wanted a simple extended version of the WTForm TextAreaField, just add a character counter field ...
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WTForms image picker widget for Flask with Bootstrap 4 without extra Javascript and CSS

24 January 2020 Updated 24 January 2020 by Peter

When you sign up for this website you are assigned an avatar image. Of course you can change the avatar in 'your account' and this is done using an image picker. Many image pickers examples can be found on the internet. But this is a Flask site including WTForms and I want the image picker to be generated by the wonderful Jinja macro I am using, see also link below, ok, I modified it a bit. With this ...
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Adding a contact form to a multilanguage page with content from a database

28 September 2019 Updated 11 October 2019 by Peter

Update 11 October 2019: I changed the addon-tag from '{% addon: ... %}' to '[[ addon: ... ]]'. The reason is that I wanted to be able to render the page text coming from the database, using render_template_string, and '{% ... %}' conflicts with Jinja2 tags. And yes, I do not want to implement a Jinja2 custom tag. What is difficult about implementing a contact page with a contact form with Flask ...
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Another captcha implementation for Flask and WTForms

4 July 2019 Updated 29 August 2019 by Peter

In the past I wrote a captcha in PHP to limit email newsletter sign ups, worked fine, in fact it is still in use today. You cannot really block spam registrations. There are registration robots but there are also people being paid a few bucks to flood your website with fake or troll accounts. That is the reality and we have to face it. And now there is also deeplearning that can be used to break our ...
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