I have a form on the homepage of mydomain.com that instructs people to submit their email address and we'll notify them when we launch our service. For those visitors that submit the form, I want to store the referer. I am able to print out the HTTP_REFERER on the same template as the form but I cannot figure out how to store the correct referer in the database.
I have the following in my views.py, the lines commented out are approaches I took that were unsuccessful. I realize I could try a hidden form variable but am wondering if there is something else I can do. # Create your views here. from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect from django.forms import ModelForm from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from permission.models import Sneezer class SneezerForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = Sneezer exclude = ['ip_address', 'referer', 'timestamp'] def add_sneezer(request): if request.method == 'POST': # referer = request.META.get("HTTP_REFERER", "") # line above generates an empty value in database data = request.POST #data = data.copy() #data.update({"referer" : referer}) form = SneezerForm(data) if form.is_valid(): new_sneezer = form.save(commit=False) new_sneezer.ip_address = request.META.get("REMOTE_ADDR", "") #new_sneezer.referer = request.META.get("HTTP_REFERER", "") #stores mydomain.com as the value every time, thus its storing the referer of the POST new_sneezer.save() return render_to_response('thanks.html') else: form = SneezerForm(initial={'referer': request.META.get("HTTP_REFERER", "")}) return render_to_response('index.html', { 'form': form, 'original_referer': request.META.get("HTTP_REFERER", "") }) def index(request): form = SneezerForm(initial={'referer': request.META.get("HTTP_REFERER", "")}) return render_to_response('index.html', { 'form': form, 'original_referer': request.META.get("HTTP_REFERER", "") }) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---