Thank you very much.

>From what I read, I think I have to get a better grip on django form
handling.

:-)



On 24 Απρ, 20:39, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 9:03 pm, xpanta <xpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thank you for the answers.
>
> > The link provided by George is an excellent resource and I should
> > thank him for that.
>
> > However my task is a bit simpler. Let's say I own a car company and I
> > have dealers in various cities. By clicking on each city name I get a
> > list of cars this city's dealer sells. This list varies from city to
> > city. Also, this list comes as a form where I (as the car company
> > owner) need to write the minimum and maximum selling price for each
> > car and submit it. It is a hypothetical scenario, but my project deals
> > with a very similar problem.
>
> > in this example is the django's form class approach "better" than the
> > "classic" one (i.e. the one where I use a {% for car in citycars %}
> > loop and attach a car.id and the dealer.id to each input field and
> > process accordingly in the view)?
>
> > I am new to django, so bear with me if I ask something trivial.
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Chris
>
> OK, so that's an easy way of showing the fields. But now what? If you
> need to validate that the user has filled them in properly, how will
> you do it? How will you redisplay the form to show the errors? And
> presumably you want to do something with the data once the user has
> filled them in - so how will you save it to the database?
>
> All these things are taken care of by Django's form class. In your
> case, the model you describe doesn't seem to require the dynamic form
> technique, it's a simple matter of formsets - which again Django can
> define for you automatically from your model.
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