aahhh yes!!! Thank you very much!!! Alright, ill work on implementing those
form views :)
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk>wrote:
> On Friday, February 4, 2011 9:24:48 AM UTC, Daniel Roseman wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>> --
>> DR.
>>
>
> Meant to add, you should really be using Django's forms framework, as it
> takes care of all of this for you.
> --
> DR.
>
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