On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Gregory Thompson Jr.
<spockthompso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to pass form data from one view to another.
>
> Here's my attempt:
>
> #Models.py
> from django import forms
>
> class Textizer(forms.Form):
> to_textize = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return self.to_textize
>
> #views.py
> from textize.models import Textizer
> from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> from django.core.context_processors import csrf
>
> def index(request):
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = Textizer(request.POST)
>
> if form.is_valid():
> request.session['text'] = form.cleaned_data['to_textize']
> return HttpResponseRedirect('/results')
>
> else:
> form = Textizer()
>
> c = {'form': form}
> c.update(csrf(request))
> return render_to_response('C:/Documents and
> Settings/quansai/projects/textsite/templates/index.html', c)
>
> def results(request):
> text = request.session.get('text', None)
> c = {'text' : text}
> return render_to_response('C:/Documents and
> Settings/quansai/projects/textsite/templates/results.html', c)
>
>
> I really don't understand the following, and I've read the documentation
> over and over. I've been on this for two days:
>
> How to initiate a session
> How sessions are checked
> How to retrieve form data from one page to handle the data on another.
In your template you can access the session variables as request.session.text.
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