On Friday, February 4, 2011 12:35:20 AM UTC, Ethan Yandow wrote:
>
> Hey there, I am trying to delete Events as chosen by a by a user using
> check boxes to check of which events they want to be deleted. But for
> some reason whenever I call request.POST.get('event_list') Nothing is
> received even though boxes are checked and I end up with nothing.
> Here is my template and the view that should be deleting the chosen
> events.
>
> {% if event_list %}
> {% for event in event_list%}
> {%csrf_token%}
> <input type="checkbox" name="event_list"
> id="event{{ forloop.counter }}" />
> <label for="event{{ forloop.counter }}">{{ event.title }}</
> label><br />
> {% endfor %}
> <input type = 'submit' value = 'delete checked'>
> </form>
> <p>{{removal}}<p/> {%comment%} this is what should be
> removed{%endcomment%}
> {% if delete_error %}
> <p>{{delete_error}}</p>
> {% endif %}
>
> views.py
>
> def EventDelete(request):
> removal = request.POST.get('event_list')
> if removal:
> removal.delete()
> else:
> delete_error = "You didn't delete anything"
> return redner_to_response("detail.html", {'delete_error':
> delete_error, 'removal': removal},
> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>
> Im not sure why removal doesn't have anything in it, shouldn't it have
> the titles of the events in it?
>
You haven't defined a `value` attribute for each checkbox.
<input type="checkbox" name="event_list" value="{{ event.id }}" id="event{{
forloop.counter }}" />
Also, in your view, you should use `getlist` to get the value - `get` only
gets the first element if it's a multi-valued field.
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