Ok thanks seems to work now.
On 29 July, 21:27, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Jul 29, 9:17 pm, When ideas fail <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've created a model form and I was wondering what the correct way to
> > save this was. I've tried adapting the view from the standard django
> > forms docs but maybe it should be different?
>
> > This is what i have in my view (it says contact form but its a form
> > that should save contacts in a db):
>
> > class ContactForm(ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = Contact
>
> > def contact_view(request):
> > if request.method == 'Post':
> > form = ContactForm(request.POST)
> > if form.is_valid():
> > contact= form.save()
> > return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/')
> > else: return HttpResponseRedirect('/error/')
>
> > else:
> > form = ContactForm()
> > tags = Tag.objects.all()
> > return render_to_response('Site/contact.html', locals(),
> > context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>
> > And my template is like this:
>
> > <form method="POST">
> > {{ form.as_p }}
> > <input type="submit" value="Submit"
> > />
>
> > My understanding is that with this setup it should go to thanks/ if
> > the form is valid and error/ if it is not and it doesn't do either,
> > and it doesn't save or come back with any errors either . could
> > someone help me please?
>
> > Thanks
>
> There are two problems, but the main one is in the first line of your
> view. request.method == 'Post' will *never* be true, because the
> method (as in shown in your template) is all upper case.
> request.method == 'POST' should work.
>
> Secondly, don't redirect to /error/. Drop that else clause altogether,
> and let the view fall through to the final render_to_response. This
> will redisplay the form with any errors.
> --
> DR.
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